Alexandra Tome
Alexandra Tome is a library technician who recently joined Mount Allison University Libraries and Archives but started her career at Humber Libraries. Throughout her…
What’s new in Open Shelf: October 2021
The team at Open Shelf has returned after our end-of-summer break reinvigorated. We enjoyed our “time off,” but are just as excited to meet the challenges and joys of the autumnal season.
Consumer Health Report
Open Shelf is proud to be launching a new bi-monthly feature on consumer health resources about select topics. Stay tuned to learn about consumer health websites, print or e-books and other relevant resources.
Access points: 4 Steps to gain metadata experience in academic libraries
Metadata helps us organize our collections and empowers users to find information—but how do new library and information science professionals access these skills for themselves?
Word of the month/Mots du mois: mystery novel
We will be featuring a “Word (Or Phrase) Of The Month” each issue, courtesy of Library Lexique. This is a tool to feature useful and thematic words or phrases which may arise in day-to-day library work. This month's is "mystery novel."
Sarah Bonato
Sarah Bonato is a health science librarian at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, ON and is a graduate of the…
Micheline Persaud: une pionnière des services en français dans les bibliothèques de l’Ontario
Micheline Persaud (née Boyer) occupe une place de choix dans l’histoire des services en français des bibliothèques de l’Ontario. Franco-ontarienne née à Ottawa en 1943, son parcours professionnel échelonné sur près de trois décennies nous rappelle le contexte effervescent des années 1960 à 1990 y compris les mouvements de revendications ainsi que la croissance rapide et les transformations dans le secteur des bibliothèques publiques, des services jeunesse et des services en français en Ontario.
Collections considerations: What goes into curating Canada’s largest music library
This month, Trevor Deck walks us through the library’s collection development mandates, scope and goals.
793.73: Quotable creeps
Douglas Davey is our cryptic crossword creator and puzzler extraordinaire. This month, 793.73 provides our readers with a chilling trivia match game that is sure to appeal to fans of horror films. And, if you’re certain that you have a mind for monster movies, you can always try sorting them by their release year as well.
David Gerstle
David S. Gerstle is Reference and Instruction Librarian at University of Toronto Mississauga. He has most recently participated in the research project, “Promoting Digital Literacy…
The discourse of the game: An interview with Chris Young on UTML’s Syd Bolton collection
The Syd Bolton Collection is a new resource at the University of Mississauga that is bound to make the Library a hot spot for curriculum development in Games Studies. This interview with Chris Young (Head, Collections & Digital Scholarship) details the successes and challenges of a collection of this size.
Supreme Court finds in favour of York University
On July 30, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada brought an end to one of the longest-running copyright sagas in recent memory when it rendered its judgement in the York University v. Access Copyright case. The case capped the debate around the rights and limits of educational institutions who are reproducing copyrighted material for student use using the “fair dealing” exception as outlined in the Canadian Copyright Act and Supreme Court cases such as CCH v. LSUC.