The Ontario Library Association (OLA) is currently into another strategic planning cycle and OCULA representatives are again involved. Shelagh Paterson (Executive Director, OLA), Jennifer Peters (OCULA,…
Bobbi Newman is the OCULA Spotlight speaker at OLA Super Conference 2014. She is the author of the award-winning blog Librarian by Day and in 2011…
As I write this, it is November, the middle of the fall academic semester and one of the busiest times of the year for…
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…