TUG Libraries take on large-scale collection management collaboration
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…
RULA wins CLA tech award
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…
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…