InsideOCULA Newsletter: Summer 2013
Welcome to InsideOCULA Summer 2013 Editor's message: Ebooks, information literacy, solidarity and mentoring ... we've got it all in this issue. In the Summer 2013…
Writer-in-residence: A report on the Guelph Accessibility Conference
This year’s annual Guelph University Accessibility Conference took place on May 28-29, allowing its attendees to experience the beautiful green campus in full bloom.…
Call for Proposals: OLA Super Conference 2014
Super Conference 2014 is “A Universe of Possibilities,” happening January 29 to February 1, 2014. The Ontario Library Association invites you to submit a…
People News: Spring 2013
Appointments Brock University Denise Smith has joined the James A. Gibson Library as Liaison / Special Projects Librarian supporting History, Canadian Studies, Medieval &…
Corrine Laverty honoured as ‘true academic librarian’
Corrine (Cory) Laverty is currently the head of the education library at Queen’s University. Her long-time friend and colleague Melody Burton paid tribute to Cory…
UWindsor repository showcases research
The Leddy Library launched its institutional repository, Scholarship @ UWindsor, in November 2012. Since then, the repository – powered by bepress Digital Commons software…
Western builds TIES between education and technology
Cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch inspired an audience of over 360 participants at the first annual Technology in Education Symposium, or TIES@Western for short,…
People News: Winter-Spring 2013
Appointments Carleton University Shelley Gullikson (MLIS) began her position as Web, Communications and Interface Design Librarian in January 2013. Most recently, Shelley had been…
Sharing stories, transferring knowledge: Carleton University’s Indigenous Human Library
Often we learn the most about each other when we sit together, break some bread and share our stories. This winter Carleton University…
Exploring history at U Waterloo
Susan Saunders Mavor, Head of Special Collections at the University of Waterloo Library, will use her 2013 Edna Staebler Research Fellowship to explore the…
Brock library website gets a student makeover
To improve access to high-priority tools and services, the web team at James A. Gibson Library reached out to the Brock community last December…
Alison Head: Investigating Information Literacy (Part One)
Alison J. Head, Ph.D. is the executive director of Project Information Literacy (PIL), a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society…
Writer-in-residence: Innovative approaches to inclusivity
InsideOCULA's first writer-in-residence is Katya Pereyaslavska, project manager of the Accessible Texts Repository at OCUL's Scholar's Portal. She graduated from the University of Toronto’s…