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Listeners’ advisory: When audiobook title recommendations are not enough

Summer reading

Trends ... Here & around the world

A year in tweets

July 15, 2017

Amanda Fudge

Cultural appropriation

An authentic narrative around Canada’s history

Coup de projecteur sur Marcel Bénéteau

Gaming to Learn: the 2017 OCULA Spring Social and Digital Odyssey

Free Foundations: Empowering Open Advocates at the HLLR Open Educational Resources (OER) Day

Showcasing Undergraduate Research at Queen’s University Library

Phone-a-friend: SOLS helps libraries (pandemic or not)

Remember the TV game show, Cash Cab? Contestants could try to answer questions on their own, but if they got stuck, they could phone a friend. The Southern Ontario Library Service (SOLS) is like that friend who you can call or turn to for an answer.

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Meg Uttangi Matsos

Meg Uttangi Matsos is a Branch Manager at Hamilton Public Library. Over the past 10 years she has managed staff teams in small clustered…

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Zarena Cassar

Zarena Cassar is a Branch Manager at Brampton Library. From working on expanding Brampton Library’s after hours study spaces to implementing creative ways to…

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Peggy Malcolm

Peggy Malcolm is a library consultant for the Southern Ontario Library Service (SOLS). As part of the SOLS Consulting team, Peggy provides information to…

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Beth Lyons

Beth Lyons is currently a teacher librarian in the Peel District School Board. She reflects and shares about her own learning journey as an…

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OCULA Council: Statement & actions against anti-Black racism

Your Council stands against anti-Black racism and commits to helping eradicate it from Canadian academic libraries.

InsideOCULA

Claim this space

This particular blank space is waiting for members of the Ontario Library Association (OLA) community to fill it up, decorate it, contribute.

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Theory in practice II: Moving from systemic racism to anti-racism in Ontario public libraries

There is a strong need to explicitly acknowledge deeply embedded racist thinking in order to move towards systemic change in public libraries.

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What’s new in Open Shelf: June 2020

So who knew we'd have 12 articles this month ... and at a time when all our lives have been so unexpectedly disrupted? But we do and our topics include acknowledging systemic racism in public libraries, voices (and photos) from those affected by the pandemic, and telling stories through memes. Plus, follow Round II of the panel on whether librarians need an MLIS, learn what's happening with K–12 education, and lisez la deuxième partie de la francisation de Scholars Portal.

What's New in Open Shelf?

Librarians need an MLIS: True or false? (Round III)

Our conversation around the opening statement “A master’s degree in library science should be required for anyone wanting to be a librarian. True or false? And why?” finishes with this third panel.

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Animal therapy or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the quarantine

From therapy animals to household pets to wildlife, many of us know firsthand the power that animals have to improve our mood and add healthy behaviours to our lives. Especially during a crisis.

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From tags to controlled vocabulary

We're looking for a volunteer who loves metadata and is interested working on a short-term project.

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Volunteer opportunity: Social media coordinator

If tweeting, analytics, and managing commentary interest you, then we invite you to join the Open Shelf team.

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