Progress Campus library achieves LEED Gold certification
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…
Brock instruction librarian goes international with new book
Once an international student herself, Karen Bordonaro works with international students every day in her job as a teaching and learning and liaison librarian…
Writer-in-residence: Current accommodation practices for accessible texts across OCUL
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 Spring Conference 2013
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…
E-book collections: Time to reassess?
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…
Craig Heron: Canada’s tough new labour market
Craig Heron. Photo credit: Canadian Historical Association Craig Heron is a labour historian at York University and the author of many articles and books…
Alison Head: Investigating Information Literacy (Part Two)
Alison J. Head, Ph.D., is the executive director of Project Information Literacy (PIL), a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society…
OCULA President’s message: What’s your mentoring experience?
In the last issue of InsideOCULA, I asked “what issues stand out for you as challenges for academic librarians?” Your answers are shown in…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: Summer 2013
Welcome to InsideOCULA Summer 2013 Editor's message: Ebooks, information literacy, solidarity and mentoring ... we've got it all in this issue. In the Summer 2013…
Writer-in-residence: A report on the Guelph Accessibility Conference
This year’s annual Guelph University Accessibility Conference took place on May 28-29, allowing its attendees to experience the beautiful green campus in full bloom.…
Call for Proposals: OLA Super Conference 2014
Super Conference 2014 is “A Universe of Possibilities,” happening January 29 to February 1, 2014. The Ontario Library Association invites you to submit a…
People News: Spring 2013
Appointments Brock University Denise Smith has joined the James A. Gibson Library as Liaison / Special Projects Librarian supporting History, Canadian Studies, Medieval &…
Corrine Laverty honoured as ‘true academic librarian’
Corrine (Cory) Laverty is currently the head of the education library at Queen’s University. Her long-time friend and colleague Melody Burton paid tribute to Cory…