Stress Busters: Helping Students Survive and Thrive During Exams
Many of the students we support academically feel intense pressure to succeed. Add final exams to the mix and the increase in anxiety is…
TRY Reframing Information Literacy: The New ACRL Framework
Librarians had many questions after the publication of the first draft of the Association of College & Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Information Literacy Framework for…
Finding Love in Academic Libraries
More than 75 students opened their hearts to the love of literature when the University of Guelph Library hosted a Blind Date with a…
New Librarian, Old Books: Reflections on Collection Development
One of the great things about being the New Librarian in Residence is that I am encouraged to explore all aspects of librarianship. Even…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: April 2015
Welcome to the April 2015 issue of InsideOCULA. This month’s issue includes: TRY Reframing Information Literacy: The New ACRL Information Literacy Framework for Higher…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: March 2015
Welcome to the March 2015 issue of InsideOCULA. This month’s issue includes: Library Pre-Shows: Making the Most of a Captive Audience by Mark Weiler…
“It’s Like the Wild West Out There”: Faculty Attitudes Towards Open Access Publishing
What do faculty members think about Open Access (OA) publishing and how do they choose where to publish? While some librarians embrace OA for…
Library Pre-Shows: Making the Most of a Captive Audience
In the early weeks of my first liaison appointment, I wanted to observe as many classes in my program areas as I possibly could.…
Snapshot from OLA SuperConference 2015: Suffering from Library Anxiety?
Library and information studies (LIS) students might seem like an unlikely group of people to suffer from library anxiety. However, a popular poster presentation…
Library Programs Should Be Interdisciplinary (OCULA Lighting Strikes Winner)
When I started my Master of Information degree at the University of Toronto, I knew that I needed to start presenting and publishing if…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: February 2015
Welcome to InsideOCULA from your new editors-in-chief, Jenaya Webb and Elizabeth Yates. We’ve been part of your newsletter since 2012 and are thrilled to…
Who’s Doing What? GovDocs Digitization Redux
Since our InsideOCULA Winter 2013 article Who’s Doing What: ODI Survey Explores Digitization Practices time has not stood still. Many new and varied directions…
Unpaid Labour in Ontario Academic Libraries
Our research interest is the extent to which unpaid internships are used in the library sector, and the perspectives of the individuals fulfilling these…