InsideOCULA Newsletter: Winter 2013
Welcome to the Winter 2013 edition of InsideOCULA! Editor's message: Thinking about New Year's resolutions? We've got Super Conference sessions for academic library staff, asking…
Super Conference 2014, “A Universe of Possibilities,” is happening January 29 to February 1, 2014. It will mark the 20th anniversary of the OLA…
In his “Think Like a Startup” white paper, Brian Mathews asserts that libraries don’t just need change, they need “paradigm-shifting, transformative, disruptive ideas.” But…
It’s September! Students are back on campus and the days are getting shorter. Here at OCULA we are starting to think about awards and…
Want to write about libraries and librarianship? InsideOCULA is looking for its next writer-in-residence to fill a four-month term starting this fall. Writing about…
Appointments Queen’s University Jenny Jing (MLIS) has been appointed to the position of Information Systems Librarian for a limited term. Jenny worked for two…
The Tri-University Group of Libraries (Guelph, Waterloo, and Wilfrid Laurier) known as TUG has embarked on a system-wide project to reduce duplication among low-use…
The Canadian Library Association (CLA) has awarded Ryerson University Library and Archives (RULA) the 2013 CLA/OCLC Award for Innovation Technology for the RULA BookFinder…
After careful assessment by industry professionals, Centennial's Progress Campus Library and Academic Facility has officially earned LEED Gold certification for which the four-storey building…
Once an international student herself, Karen Bordonaro works with international students every day in her job as a teaching and learning and liaison librarian…
When I started working with the Accessible Content E-Portal (ACE) project in 2012, my first priority was to understand how OCUL schools were similar…
OCULA'S 2013 Spring Conference was a day filled with activities that definitely brought out the creative side of participants--like the button-making station…
Now that academic libraries have usage statistics for at least some of the e-books we have collected over the past decade, a review of…