Sharon Bailey
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #35: Sharon Bailey – Interim Manager, Library Services, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health…
Indigenous knowledge practices
If you are interested in Indigenous collections, history and approaches to the work done by archivists, librarians and museum workers, then you might very…
Trends … here & around the world
Featuring trends and happenings in information institutions at home and abroad.
Small Communities Making and Trying
Where is the one place you could go to have fun with a 3D printer or horseback ride on a simulated horse? The library,…
Equity & Social Justice in the Library Learning Commons
I read an interesting tweet recently about transforming the perception of school libraries from a warehouse for books to houses of student learning. The…
That Feeling When
Amanda Etches is an Associate Chief Librarian at the University of Guelph Library. You can find more of her writings and doodles at e.tches.ca. Incidentally is…
Good to Great
"Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t…
Helen McDonnell
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #34: Helen McDonnell, CEO, Callander Public Library. Helen and I both have the prospect…
Formal Training Isn’t Enough
On October 21, 2016 the Ontario Public Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory (RA) committee hosted the eleventh annual RA in a Day symposium at the…
Kelli Van Buskirk
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #33: Kelli Van Buskirk, Acquisitions, Adult Department, North Bay Public Library. Kelli and I…
The Case for Free Flow Book Exchange
In education we often use IF, THEN statements to guide changes to our programming and practice. IF I change this, THEN my students will……
New Librarians Symposium: Special Issue
The New Librarians Symposium (NLS) happened on Friday, June 24th at Ryerson University. In this special issue of Open Shelf, we (the event’s co-organizers)…
Notes from the Field: Examining Issues in the Profession
As part of NLS’s registration process we invited attendees to choose a few topics that they would be interested in discussing during the Birds…