Canada 151: Visions of Indigenous & non-Indigenous relations through time
Canada 150 is now officially over. However, the reconciliation work of libraries, archives, museums and other memory institutions continues in Canada 151. The Truth…
Canada 150 is now officially over. However, the reconciliation work of libraries, archives, museums and other memory institutions continues in Canada 151. The Truth…
B. Mabel Dunham (1881-1957) was the president of the Ontario Library Association in 1920. In her presidential address, she spoke bluntly about the opportunities…
We love to compare books and their screen adaptations ... plot and people, pace and perspective. Which version is better, the movie or the…
As the out-going chair of the IFLA Library Services for Multicultural Populations Section, I shared this manifesto with participants at the IFLA 2017 conference, held…
Complete surprise and appreciation: this was my first reaction to reading a response to an article I had written for Open Shelf last spring.…
At the 2017 Computers in Libraries conference, a librarian asked “Do you use your 3D printer, as a service or resource?" This seemed like…
At their best, national institutions are not static entities but evolve in concert with the people and places that they are created to support.…
By Martha Attridge Bufton and Valerie Critchley We have revised our Open Shelf author guidelines, in part to make our editing and publishing policies…
Summer is often when we allow ourselves extra time for reading, so the Open Shelf editing team thought you might like a few suggestions for books to take on…
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In 1867, library schools as we know them had not yet been founded. Diversity was not formally defined as race, ethnicity or access challenges,…
“In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission makes the following…