Ontario Library Association OLA
Founded in 1900, the Ontario Library Association is the oldest continually operating library association in Canada. With more than 5,000 members, the OLA is the largest…
Michael Rogowski, Education Coordinator
Welcome to The OLA Staff Room, a new column that will showcase Ontario Library Association staff members, our services, programs, and events. The association…
What’s New in Open Shelf? October 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…
Open Shelf Evolves
While it's a cliché to say something is a" work-in-progress", this couldn't be more true of Open Shelf. And our readers agree. The poll…
Aaron Kimberley
Aaron Kimberley is Digital Literacy Librarian at the Oshawa Public Libraries, where he has worked primarily in the development of database and web services,…
Exploring Fandom: Libraries and Other Fanclubs
On the Labour Day weekend of 2014, as they do every year, just over 100,000 people gathered at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to…
Sally Grande
Sally Grande began her IT career in 1974 in the then uncharted realm of online information retrieval. She has served as president of the Canadian…
Exploring Fandom: Why Star Trek?
When asked about “fandom”, I must respond that, as a lifelong nerd, a techie and a librarian, my SciFi fandom is very specific: I’m…
Doing *Real* User Experience Work
In my last column, Brian Herzog shared the hows and whys of his brilliant idea to Work Like a Patron to help library staff build…
Lorna Rourke
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #19: Lorna Rourke. Lorna Rourke is the Library Director at St Jerome’s University…
Rochelle Mazar
Rochelle Mazar is the Emerging Technologies librarian at the University of Toronto Mississauga, with an academic background in history and theological studies, and an…
The Language of Space
The spaces in libraries speak; they speak much louder and more consistently than our policies, signs, or staff can, and they always speak in…
Pauline Dewan
Pauline Dewan is a Laurier/Nipissing liaison librarian at the Brantford campus. She has a PhD in English, a passion for reading, and a love…