Kimberly Christmas
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #21: Kimberley Christmas. Kimberly Christmas is the new Manager of Virtual Services at…
Talking It Up One Tweet at a Time: #information #conversation #action @publiclibraries
Social media’s power to engage and connect people in 140 character bites of text and media is being studied and reported across many research…
Marilyn McDermott
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #20: Marilyn McDermott. Marilyn McDermott is a librarian for the Mohawk/McMaster Institute for…
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Archives
In an attempt to reconcile wounds inflicted on Aboriginal Canadians through the Indian Residential School (IRS) System, the government of Canada, former IRS students,…
Institutionalizing Smarter, Better, Faster
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is a graduate research university in Saudi Arabia designed to foster the best scientific research…
Rachelle DesRochers, Administrative Assistant
Welcome to The OLA Staff Room, a new column that will showcase OLA staff members, our services, programs, and events. Meet Rachelle DesRochers who…
Alien Nation? New Perspectives on the White Working Class and Disengagement in Britain
This is an uncomfortable but necessary read. It made me think long and hard about how public libraries engage and connect with working class…
The Persistence and Problems of Music Genre
Whenever we’re asked what kind of music we like, we typically describe our tastes in terms of specific musicians (whether composers or performers) or…
What We See When We Read
Reading is all about us receiving what the writer intends to convey. Right? Not so fast. We know the solitary act of reading is…
Michael Rogowski, Education Coordinator
Welcome to The OLA Staff Room, a new column that will showcase Ontario Library Association staff members, our services, programs, and events. The association…
Doing *Real* User Experience Work
In my last column, Brian Herzog shared the hows and whys of his brilliant idea to Work Like a Patron to help library staff build…
Lorna Rourke
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #19: Lorna Rourke. Lorna Rourke is the Library Director at St Jerome’s University…
You’re Not the Boss of Me
Have you seen the "Ban Bossy" campaign geared to girls? My first reaction was “hey, bossiness has its place’ (growing up, my friends called me…