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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

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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Hospital librarianship during the COVID-19 pandemic

I’m still going to work because, while I’m a librarian, my library serves hospital leadership and front-line health workers.

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To volunteer

April 19-15, 2020 was National Volunteer Week in Canada. OLA recognized the many members of the library sector in Ontario that contribute to the strength and success of the association, including those who produce Open Shelf.

From the Editor

Zoom, zoom . . .

This is how I imagine someone scheduled to host a meeting looks when they try to sneak quietly into an already started Zoom meeting…

Memespiration

Remote readers’ advisory

Across the country, libraries are closed but library staff are still working hard to provide remote programming and virtual services, including RA.

Readers' Advisory

The wrong side of the digital divide

COVID-19 has definitely created new access needs. Unfortunately, not everyone has a well-equipped home office that comes with internet access, which is where the public library can help.

Trees and Forests

Justin Ball

Justin Ball has many years of experience in the film industry working with The Mind Refinery, a Toronto based production company. He has written…

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Zack Osborne

Zack has a diverse background of experience in libraries and is endlessly fascinated with all aspects of library work. He is the Manager of…

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Christine Moffatt

Christine Moffatt (she/her) is a Researcher at the Problem Lab at the University of Waterloo, Canada's first lab dedicated to problem analysis. She supports…

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Ben Mitchell

Ben Mitchell is an early career academic librarian with a background as a sessional lecturer and researcher in the history of science and science…

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