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The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is a graduate research university in Saudi Arabia designed to foster the best scientific research…
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is a graduate research university in Saudi Arabia designed to foster the best scientific research…
Melanie Kindrachuk is a Public Service Librarian at the Stratford Public Library. She currently sits on the Readers’ Advisory and Evergreen Award Committees. She…
Welcome to The OLA Staff Room, a new column that will showcase OLA staff members, our services, programs, and events. Meet Rachelle DesRochers who…
How can understanding our own experience of reading help us improve our Readers' Advisory (RA) service to our library users? How can understanding more…
What’s New in Open Shelf? is a Table of Contents of sorts. Open Shelf publishes when we have compelling new material. Every two weeks…
Katya Pereyaslavska (M.A., M.I.) is the Accessibility Librarian at Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries. She works on consortial level as the service…
How to build a website? How to build an engaging website? How to build an engaging website that is also accessible? How to build…
Amanda Oliver is Lead Archivist, Archives Society of Alberta. She can be reached at amandao [at] archivesalberta.org.
Anne Daniel is the Associate Archivist, Western University Archives. She can be reached at Anne.Daniel [at] uwo.ca.
The image of archivists in media can sometimes seem nebulous. From descriptions of dusty, disorganized vaults and cardigan-clad gatekeepers, many stereotypes have been perpetuated…
You can’t rebalance the boat without rocking it.” Ray Land, Jan H. F. Meyer and Jan Smith in Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines In…
Berton Woodward is a Toronto-based editor, writer and communications consultant. He has served in senior editorial and communications roles at York University, Maclean’s magazine,…
What does it take to win an intense stock trading competition dominated by teams of finance students? A team of accounting students. Haoran Shi…