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
It's that time again! This is our last issue before September and we are gearing up for two exciting opportunities. Plus, we have features on supporting medical research, working in a precarious job market, developing leadership skills ... and more hot summer reading.
Now in its fourth year, the Public Library Leaders program is gaining a reputation for preparing library managers to successfully advance to higher levels of leadership within their institutions.
People often think of librarianship as a financially lucrative career, but with many libraries now offering only part-time hours and irregular shifts, it is very possible to become a working-poor librarian.
Kimberley Aslett has no regrets about becoming the lone health librarian in her local hospital. She revels in a job where every day is different because her role is to directly support health research and innovation.
Would you like to work as a member of a creative team that shares stories about libraries in Ontario? Then consider volunteering as the Open Shelf story editor.
With podcasts covering pretty much every conceivable thought, notion or idea, it makes sense that there would be countless podcasts for readers and book lovers ... and for readers' advisory as well!
We are working to organize networking and communication opportunities and to make resources related to advocacy available to libraries. To fulfill our mandate, we officially launched the OLA Advocacy Toolkit in May 2019.