Limited Series – Page 2

Black Lives Matter: Does silence signal complacence in public libraries?

I have been waiting for a statement from my local library on the recent protests aimed at confronting systemic anti-black racism in our North American society and across the Western world. It has been weeks and I am still waiting.

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Amplifying the voices of school libraries: Summer lending programs

During the 2020 OLA Super Conference, the voices of Canadian school libraries came together to share, discuss and celebrate the incredible work in K-12 school library learning commons in Canada. In the upcoming months, It's elementary will highlight authors and papers from the conference.

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It's Elementary: Thoughts About School Libraries

Zoom, zoom . . .

This is how I imagine someone scheduled to host a meeting looks when they try to sneak quietly into an already started Zoom meeting…

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Memespiration

The wrong side of the digital divide

COVID-19 has definitely created new access needs. Unfortunately, not everyone has a well-equipped home office that comes with internet access, which is where the public library can help.

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Trees and Forests

Home-schooling and job seeking during a pandemic

Both the library closure and the closure of all publicly funded schools and child care centres after March break have left me curious to know which online resources will assist me and other parents like me who now find themselves with home-schooling responsibilities.

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What’s happening at school?

The Ontario Ministry of Education has been releasing official announcements related to public schools in the province since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic on March 11, 2020. Each announcement has led to another phase in remote teaching and learning in Ontario.

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It's Elementary: Thoughts About School Libraries

Cultural diversity and inclusion in the workplace

This column showcases diversity in library work in Ontario by introducing Open Shelf readers to library staff from around the province.

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culture@work

Solving the child care riddle

A friend and I are both looking for work in libraries and expect to work evening and weekend shifts. We both have children who need adequate child care while we're at work.

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Valuing social institutions: Northern libraries have bang for their buck

Quantifying the social value of public institutions can be challenging and contentious given that standard business metrics may not capture the value of intangible social rewards.

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Due North

Genealogy 101: Finding your roots to find your skill set

Helping others discover their familial roots had exposed an issue in my own family that I realized I needed to address: Finding my own roots.

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Genealogy 101

Teacher with a press: Hands-on learning for arts and social science students

Larry Thompson is the master printer in the Carleton University Library Book Arts Lab—a professional doing non-traditional work in an academic library.

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Road less travelled

Starting a library job: Do you have the right hairdo?

The characters from the 1968 musical Hair send us a clear political message: My hair, your hair, our hair belongs to us alone. And yet in public spaces such as the workplace, our hair seems to belong to others. In this article, Rhea talks about the unique challenges she has as a woman of African descent, regarding how she wears her hair at work.

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Are publishers that short-sighted? Questioning Macmillan’s new ebook guidelines

“Beginning November 1, Macmillan Publishers is restricting library access to new e-books, causing long wait times for some titles.”

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Trees and Forests