Gaming to Learn: the 2017 OCULA Spring Social and Digital Odyssey
The OLITA Council holds a one-day conference each year called Digital Odyssey; this year’s conference highlighted the variety of ways that games and gameful…
Free Foundations: Empowering Open Advocates at the HLLR Open Educational Resources (OER) Day
On June 8, 2017, Centennial College hosted the Heads of Libraries and Learning Resources (HLLR) OER Libraries Day. The event was sponsored by HLLR,…
Showcasing Undergraduate Research at Queen’s University Library
It might seem like liberty and the city; surveillance, security and urban governance; Atlantic salmon restoration in Lake Ontario; and immigrant women’s health issues…
Factors in Academic Librarian Research Success
"Research" by Nick Youngson / CC BY-SA 3.0 Canadian academic librarians are increasingly conducting original research as part of our work. Across the country,…
Celebrating Collaborations in Ontario Academic Libraries
In the previous issue, I wrote about getting your first break as an academic librarian. While working in college and university libraries, we can…
Spinning Stories: the Role of Storytelling in our Work
On my office desk sits a postcard. It’s a single panel from a pen and ink comic telling the tale, as the artist describes…
The Ontario Historical Topographic Map Digitization Project: Past, Present, Future of Academic Map Libraries
About The Ontario Historical Topographic Map Digitization Project is a province-wide collaboration to inventory, digitize, georeference, and provide broad access to early topographic maps…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: July 2017
This month, our country celebrates 150 years of confederation, through which provinces and territories have come together to form Canada as we know it…
From Student to Scholar: Building Capacity for Graduate Student Academic Literacies and Research Skills
A team from OCUL institutions has created a new, highly interactive and media-rich online resource to help graduate students in the social sciences develop…
La Casita Azul: A Unique Project with Significant Consequences
As a result of a short but exciting conversation in 2014, the idea of a York University library in Costa Rica was born. After…
Once Upon a Time: 2017 OCULA Spring Conference
The theme for this year’s OCULA Spring Conference is Storytime: Using narrative to represent ourselves, our work, and our library, but what is a…
OCULA Lightning Strikes Session at Super Conference 2017
When I first saw OCULA’s call for student Lightning Strikes talks, I purposefully thought very little about the consequences of submitting a proposal despite…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: April 2017
Spring is a time for new beginnings. If only it would stop snowing in Ontario, we could believe the calendar--didn’t it tell us that…