Karen McGrath, Director of Library and Bookstore Services at Niagara College, was awarded the 2016 OCULA Lifetime Achievement Award at January’s Ontario Library Association…
Colin Clarke, Founder/Director of the Canadian Centre for Epigraphic Documents, received the 2016 OCULA Award for Special Achievement at the OLA Super Conference in…
Academic librarians are continuously striving to connect with students – whether in a classroom, answering a chat reference question or providing one-on-one research help.…
Advocacy for academic libraries is becoming increasingly necessary in today’s world—we need to tout (or is it toot?) our own horns and make ourselves…
The 2016 OCULA Spring Conference is just around the corner! As lead planner for this year’s event (along with co-planners Fiona Inglis and Chris Landry),…
Looking for an opportunity to engage with the larger library world beyond your walls? Perhaps you should consider volunteering as an OLA Super Conference co-planner.…
Reflections of an OCULA New Librarian Resident 1. Engage faculty My role of Scholarly Communications Librarian is the first of its kind at OCAD…
Research interest To explore how ideas about information seeking, information literacy and culturally responsive teaching can inform the design of instruction programs to meet…
Welcome to the jam-packed April 2016 edition of InsideOCULA, the newsletter for Ontario’s academic library community. If this month brings its predictable allotment of…
The OCULA Lightning Strikes Student Award is an exciting opportunity for LIS students to participate in the annual OLA Super Conference. Each year, six…
Winter finally arrived in January, just in time for our return to campus after the holidays. While the new year has brought us snow…
As I settle into my role as this year’s OCULA New Librarian in Residence, I have made it a priority to expand my…
It’s hard to believe, that this was only the third Government Information Day (GID) organized in Ontario. The first was organized in 2013 by…