Melanie Kindrachuk
Melanie Kindrachuk is a Public Service Librarian at the Stratford Public Library. She currently sits on the Readers’ Advisory and Evergreen Award Committees. She…
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…
Transformative: Understanding the Reading Experience
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? November 15, 2014
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
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…
Elevator Speech on Accessibility
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
Amanda Oliver is Lead Archivist, Archives Society of Alberta. She can be reached at amandao [at] archivesalberta.org.
Anne Daniel
Anne Daniel is the Associate Archivist, Western University Archives. She can be reached at Anne.Daniel [at] uwo.ca.
Seeking an Identity: The Portrayal of Archivists in Film
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…
Threshold Concepts and Information Literacy
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
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,…
Students Go Hands-on at UTSC’s First Trading Competition
What does it take to win an intense stock trading competition dominated by teams of finance students? A team of accounting students. Haoran Shi…
University of Toronto Expands Orientation
University of Toronto (UofT) Libraries expanded its orientation activities this year. In addition to the various libraries holding their own orientation events locally, the…