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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

Preparing surgical professionals and students to be culturally sensitive

This column features professionals who have traditional library and information training but have taken a “road less travelled” by applying their knowledge and skills in unexpected ways or places.

Road less travelled

Information warfare

While information as a strategic resource is not a new concept, information warfare (IW) is a relatively recent term.

High 5

Change or else: Rallying for action on the world’s climate crisis

On September 27, 2019, thousands of people showed up in 85 Canadian communities to rally and protest on the issue of climate change. Some of these folks work in libraries.

Features

Taking stock: CFLA-FCAB at four years

CFLA-FCAB is now entering its fourth year as an entity and so it is time to take stock of where it is as an organization and what the future holds.

Features

Matt Balaker

Matt Balaker is a comic, writer, and former investment fund manager. He lives in Southern California with his two boys and one wife.

Contributors

Chris Cluff

Chris Cluff is an educator and podcaster based in Newmarket, Ontario. In a previous life he cooked for a living and then transitioned…

Contributors

Margaret Tarpley

Margaret Tarpley is an adjunct lecturer in medical education at the University of Botswana and an adjunct instructor in surgery at Vanderbilt University. Mrs.…

Contributors

It’s our vote: The 2019 federal election

Our little public library has served as an information center for municipal, provincial and federal elections and this year we ordered welcome resources from Elections Canada.

Features

Accessible Content ePortal launches companion staff portal and public website

The Accessible Content ePortal (ACE) is a service provided by Scholars Portal, supporting the Ontario Council of University Libraries in making their collections accessible to students and faculty with print disabilities. Our service team has launched a new staff portal and public-facing website to support community engagement and the accessibility request submission process.

InsideOCULA

Bridge between: The 2019 OCULA Spring Conference

OCULA members, along with volunteers from the Ontario School Libraries Association, collaborated to present their annual spring conference. This year, the conference focused on teaching information literacy skills to students entering college and university.

InsideOCULA

Chris Tomasini

Chris Tomasini is the Online Learning Librarian at Lakehead University's Orillia campus. He supports students from a variety of disciplines, including Bachelor of Education…

Contributors

What’s new in Open Shelf?: September 2019

In this month's issue we have a list of reading suggestions in Library is... Murder!, and an update on the new rural libraries conference: Little Branches Rural Roots. Also, learn about: cultural diversity and inclusion in the workplace, the current landscape of ebooks in libraries, Whether librarianship is a profession, the RA core competencies & toolkit, the Library IT Crowd, and hear from a public library manager dealing with the recent budget cuts. Plus, we have an exciting opportunity at Open Shelf: call for a story editor.

What's New in Open Shelf?

Finding meaning in these trying times: Thoughts from a public library manager

Lately, being an administrator for a public library in Ontario has been a pretty grim proposition, but a recent experience has left me hopeful.

Trees and Forests