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…
Adopting Readers’ Advisory Practices in the Academic Library
Over the course of the past century, public libraries have increasingly promoted reading for pleasure while academic libraries have moved away from doing so…
Diana Maliszewski
Diana Maliszewski is the teacher-librarian at Agnes Macphail Public School in the Toronto District School Board. She is the editor-in-chief of The Teaching Librarian,…
Dumping Ground or Hallowed Ground?
When school library professionals are recognized as vital to student success, why do schools still see them as ‘other’? Reading can provoke some strong reactions…
What’s New in Open Shelf? September 2014
What's New in Open Shelf? is a Table of Contents of sorts. Open Shelf publishes when we have compelling new material. We are hoping…
Judith Logan
Judith Logan is a Reference Librarian, University of Toronto. She can be reached at judith.logan [at] utoronto.ca.