New Librarian Residency Award: OCULA president’s message
Last month Open Shelf published a special issue on the New Librarians’ Symposium at Ryerson University last June. In July, InsideOCULA published an issue focused…
Libraries and the future of higher education: OCULA Fall Conference
Staff at libraries around the province engaged with each other virtually during OCULA's Nov. 23 fall conference focusing on "The Next Transformation: Libraries and…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: October 2016
Welcome to the October edition of InsideOCULA! In this month's OCULA President's Message, Denise Smith reflects on lessons learned while balancing the challenges of presidency with…
Streamlining Access to Digitized Canadian Government Information
Librarians at Canadian institutions are working to preserve government information and make it accessible to researchers through digitization. Preventing duplication of effort in this…
A UX Librarian Goes to Ottawa: Minimizing Censorship in Canada
Earlier in the spring, I gave testimony to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics. They asked me…
Making Space for Zines at Seneca Libraries
How it got started In the summer of 2015, the library was approached by two faculty members in Seneca’s Illustration Program about starting a…
Putting the Who in the Canadian Academic Librarian Community: CAPAL Census
Who are Canada’s academic librarians? That question will be answered by Canada’s first census of academic librarians, which attracted more than 900 responses from…
A Found Balance, and Lessons Learned: OCULA President’s Message
For many past presidents, the opportunity to serve on the OCULA council executive is an opportunity to develop or refine leadership skills, work with…
How Hip Is the Partnership? The Value of a Generalist Journal in a Niche World
Partnership Journal The Partnership journal is a Canadian, open-access journal that covers every library sector and is written by library practitioners on a variety…
Ten Top Tips for Negotiating a Job Offer
1. Negotiate This seems self-evident, but I know many colleagues who don’t negotiate. In my conversations with library leaders (i.e. the people who hire…
From the Hiring Line: Top Tips for Interview Success
If you were to take a poll asking what the most nerve-wracking aspect of the job search was, most people would say the job…
Dealing with the Big Day on Campus
How do job interviews at college and university libraries differ? Two recently hired librarians, one from a college and the other from a university,…
Slay the Interview with Your Superpowers
You’ve just found out you got the interview, and now your brain goes crazy. You start stressing about every little detail. And every big…