An ode to summer from an academic librarian: OCULA president’s message
By Melanie Parlette-Stewart “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”—L. M. Montgomery, Anne of…
By Melanie Parlette-Stewart “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”—L. M. Montgomery, Anne of…
by Jordan Pedersen What do artificial intelligence, library social media preservation, Indigenous knowledge bases, and embedded librarianship have in common? They were the topics…
by Catherine Fournier and Helen Tang Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values in librarianship … in theory, at least. But what are libraries…
By Melanie Parlette-Stewart Here are some thoughts I’ve had as a librarian: “My boss is going to realize hiring me was a mistake.” “They’re…
By Jennifer Peters and Anabella Arcaya The Learning Portal is a collaboration between the Ontario college libraries, several Ontario college learning centres, and the…
By Jaclyn Chambers-Page We had a room. We had an idea. We had a plan. This is the story of Niagara College Libraries’ Exploratory…
By Marnie Seal Have you ever wanted to catch some “zen” throughout your day, but just found the environment around you a little too…
By Lynne Bowker In Ontario, quality assurance of academic programs has gained prominence recently. Programs at public universities must be reviewed every eight years,…
by Mike Ridley If AI are so smart, why can’t they explain themselves? Autonomous, intelligent systems are becoming ubiquitous. If you use Google, Facebook,…
By Jesse Carliner During the school year at the University of Toronto's Robarts Library, the University’s largest library, there are long lines at Starbucks…
By Eva McDonald During the height of the college faculty strike, the College Employer Council (CEC) stressed three key things to the press: that…
By Jillian Sparks In January 2016, we established our Instagram account, @jordan_library, for the W.D. Jordan Rare Books and Special Collections at Queen’s University.…