What’s New in Open Shelf January 15, 2015
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…
Size Matters: The Small Library as Place
Wilberforce, Ontario is tucked under the southern border of Algonquin Park in the municipality of Highlands East which has a permanent population of 2,700…
Erin Kernohan-Berning
Erin Kernohan-Berning is the Branch Services Librarian/Deputy CEO at the Haliburton County Public Library. She earned her MLIS from Western University. She also holds…
Kimberly Christmas
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #21: Kimberley Christmas. Kimberly Christmas is the new Manager of Virtual Services at…
Mary Kosta
Mary Kosta is the Archivist for the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada. She is a member of the Ontario Library…
Twitter Folksonomies
Good examples of folksonomies are found in the hashtags used on Twitter, which were originally an innovation of Twitter users. Hashtags are abbreviations, words…
Mary Cavanagh
Mary Cavanagh, is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa. She can be reached on Twitter @mfcavanagh and on emmail…
Talking It Up One Tweet at a Time: #information #conversation #action @publiclibraries
Social media’s power to engage and connect people in 140 character bites of text and media is being studied and reported across many research…
Welcome to Night Vale
Radio isn't dead; it was just sleeping. It was awakened by the internet and podcasts. Welcome to Night Vale is one of the most…
What’s New in Open Shelf December 1, 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…
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…