OCULA President’s Message
Library Day at Queen’s Park There’s an exciting event coming up on Wednesday November 26th! The Ontario Library Association has partnered with Impact Public…
Around the Province: Telling Tales
Some storytellers begin with “once upon a time,” but Tara Ogaick helped young writers at Carleton University’s inaugural creative writing camps to tell their…
Librarians Inspire Guatemalan Students to Celebrate a Love of Reading
Where can a love for libraries, a penchant for travel, and a passion for international development work take you? For twelve LIS students and…
Paws for a Study Break
Therapy animal programs (also known as Animal-assisted therapy or AAT) are commonly used in hospital and rehabilitation settings, where they “have a way of…
Allison Bell
Allison Bell is the Manager, Research & Reference Unit at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto. Allison can be reached at allison.bell…
Sophia Apostol
Sophia Apostol is a Personal and Professional Development Coach. She partners with people who want to live kick a$$ lives and organizations ready to…
Jenaya Webb
Jenaya Webb is a Public Services Librarian at the OISE Library, University of Toronto. She can be reached at jenaya.webb [at] utoronto.ca or @jenayawebb
Sarah Dahlen
Sarah Dahlen is a Reference and Instruction Librarian at California State University, Monterey Bay. She is the treasurer of REFORMA, an association that promotes…
Carolyn Doi
Carolyn Doi (M.L.I.S., McGill, 2010, B. Mus., UVic, 2007) was the Guatemala Program Manager for Librarians Without Borders from 2011 - 2014 and has travelled…
London and Jinan: A Visiting Professor Compares Jinan in China’s Public Library System With That of Middlesex County
Professor Guodong Zheng was a visiting professor at the University or Western Ontario in 2013. Through a series of fortuitous events, he joined a…
The IdeaMarket: A New Direction in Community Engagement
The Newmarket Public Library’s most recent Strategic Plan was aimed at shifting the Library’s focus to become a centre of community dialogue and discovery…
Where’s the Government Support for Broadband?
Catherine Middleton is a Ryerson management professor who spoke at the 2014 OLA Superconference on the importance of broadband Internet to the Canadian economy…
The Internet is Insecure
So what is the internet, really? It is not magic, although it tries hard to look like it. We don't talk about the physical…