For-credit IL courses: Do you teach one?
Academic librarians teach one-shot information literacy (IL) sessions but some of us deliver for-credit IL courses.
Super Conference 2019: Unleash your inner editor
We all have something to say but not always the opportunity, experience or technical expertise to share our ideas out to the OLA community.
Celebrations: Holiday season in small libraries
They may be small, but they have a mighty impact! Small, rural and medium-sized libraries are doing their part to ensure the communities they support have a wonderful holiday season.
Super Conference 2019: Unleash your inner editor
We all have something to say but not always the opportunity, experience or technical expertise to share our ideas out to the OLA community.
UNESCO Year of Indigenous languages: What are you doing?
We at Open Shelf want to learn more about how Ontario libraries will honour Indigenous languages in 2019.
Language and power in the academic library classroom
Language is an enactment of power. What it means to make choices on what I say and how I say it, affects those in the classrooms I teach in.
Political correctness and society—have we really gone mad?
It seems entirely proper that people about whom the words are used can also have a say in how they like to be described and referred to.
Carro, transporta libros or book truck: Navigating library stacks in two languages
For those of our colleagues with another first language, learning library jargon in English can sometimes mean getting disconnected from your mother tongue.
Sharing our words, transforming our relationships
As members of the OLA Cultural Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, we choose our words carefully.
Inclusive librarianship: On whiteness
As for librarians of colour, a focus on whiteness is very beneficial. I found this true for myself and I got a great response from librarians of colour.
Racialized is the new Black, and Brown and …
When I think back to my early understandings of race, I recall being five years old and passing some older boys who spat on me ...
What the … [add library superlative language here]?
Humans have created numerous theoretical lenses to give order to and make sense of the world.
Editorial guidelines: A statement of principles
A lack of editorial guidelines is problematic, particularly when making decisions as to whether a given article should be published or not (i.e., censored).