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…
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…
In an attempt to reconcile wounds inflicted on Aboriginal Canadians through the Indian Residential School (IRS) System, the government of Canada, former IRS students,…
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is a graduate research university in Saudi Arabia designed to foster the best scientific research…
Welcome to The OLA Staff Room, a new column that will showcase OLA staff members, our services, programs, and events. Meet Rachelle DesRochers who…
This is an uncomfortable but necessary read. It made me think long and hard about how public libraries engage and connect with working class…
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…
Reading is all about us receiving what the writer intends to convey. Right? Not so fast. We know the solitary act of reading is…
Welcome to The OLA Staff Room, a new column that will showcase Ontario Library Association staff members, our services, programs, and events. The association…
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…
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…
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…
Catherine Middleton is a Ryerson management professor who spoke at the 2014 OLA Superconference on the importance of broadband Internet to the Canadian economy.…
Kevin Page is the former Parliamentary Budget Officer of Canada. For readers unfamiliar with the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), according to its website the…