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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

Are you stressed? Boosting resiliency at work

As library staff, we all deal with stressful situations such as a person haggling over $1.50 in fines shrinking budgets and rising costs. Whether we're up north or down south, reflection and sleep can boost our resiliency and stress-wrangling capacity.

Due North

What’s new in Open Shelf: December 2018

Our last issue of Open Shelf for 2018 … and it’s a time to hear from new(er) as well as more familiar voices, including three newly appointed digital editors. Learn about organizational renewal at four Ontario academic libraries, how small libraries celebrate holidays in their communities, and the chair of OLA's Cultural Diversity and Inclusion Task Force. All this and more ...

What's New in Open Shelf?

For-credit IL courses: Do you teach one?

Academic librarians teach one-shot information literacy (IL) sessions but some of us deliver for-credit IL courses.

Features

Reagan Kapasi

Reagan Kapasi is a Youth Services Librarian at Toronto Public Library.

Contributors

Cultural diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Arvind Singh is the chair of the OLA Cultural Diversity and Inclusion Committee and works at the Hamilton Public Library.

culture@work

Celebrations: Holiday season in small libraries

They may be small, but they have a mighty impact! Small, rural and medium-sized libraries are doing their part to ensure the communities they support have a wonderful holiday season.

Features

Caroline Goulding

Caroline Goulding is the CEO of the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre, which serves a population of 7,500. The library offers a dynamic…

Contributors

It’s a marathon, not a sprint – the organizational renewal process at Western Libraries

by Jennifer Robinson In September 2018, as the Western community made its way back to campus, Western Libraries went about its usual fall routines.…

InsideOCULA

Carleton University Library undergoes changes to its Academic Services

By Amber Lannon Carleton University is located in Ottawa, on a beautiful campus in the south of the city bordered on one side by…

InsideOCULA

Where do you find community? Communities of practice and library professionals: OCULA president’s message

By Melanie Parlette-Stewart This fall I’ve been reflecting on how change challenges us to find new ways of doing and learning. What I’ve come…

InsideOCULA

InsideOCULA Newsletter: December 2018

It's December, that time of year when we routinely take stock of the year that was, and look forward to the year that will be.

InsideOCULA, InsideOCULA Editor’s Message

uOttawa library organizational renewal project

By Liz Hayden The University of Ottawa Library has embarked on a comprehensive organizational renewal to ensure that its structure is well-positioned for the…

InsideOCULA

Catching the next wave? Streaming video in academic libraries

By Aaron Lupton, Ian Gordon and Helen Salmon In a recent editorial, Erik Martin (2018) effectively describes why streaming video is so compelling: quoting…

InsideOCULA