Elearning: A multi-faceted experience
Finding meaningful applications for technology in the classroom is important but sometimes difficult.
60 years of service: First Nation public libraries in Ontario
First Nation libraries, like the one in Moose Factory, make profound contributions to their communities.
Journée congrès: L’ABO-Franco
Le conseil francophone de l’Association des bibliothèques de l’Ontario (L’ABO-Franco) recherche des professionnels de l’information qui désireraient présenter une communication, partager les résultats d’une…
Wakanda’s library: Afrofuturism and Black History Month
Coinciding with Black History Month, Rhea Smith discusses Afrofuturism, a way of exploring the future positively.
Inclusive librarianship: On white fragility
Because whiteness functions as normative and invisible, it is often very difficult for white people specifically to see whiteness.
Dinner for one: The holiday classic you’ve probably never heard of
Come the holiday season, there seem to be few topics of conversation less controversial than deciding upon which is the perfect movie to ring in the end of the year (team Princess Bride here), but in a big part of Europe this question isn't up for debate.
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.
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.
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.
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.