Liz Hayden
Liz Hayden is the Associate University Librarian of Strategy and Planning at the University of Ottawa Library. She is the project manager for the…
Helen Salmon
Helen Salmon is a Collections Librarian at the University of Guelph Library, with selection responsibilities for the Humanities and Media Resources. Helen has worked…
Ian Gordon
Ian Gordon is a Brock Library Teaching & Learning Librarian with diverse research, service and instructional interests over a career that has encompassed varied…
Aaron Lupton
Aaron Lupton is a Content Development and Analysis Librarian within the newly reconfigured York University Libraries (YUL). Previously he was the Electronic Resources Librarian…
Amber Lannon
Amber Lannon is the University Librarian at Carleton University Library, since July 2020 and before that…
Nathalie Soini
Nathalie Soini is Head of Information Services and liaison librarian for French Studies and Languages, Literatures, and Culture (LLCU) at Queen’s University. She has been ABO-Franco…
Jennifer Brown
Jennifer Brown is a teacher librarian with the Peel District School Board at Castle Oaks Public School in Brampton and the past president of…
What’s new in Open Shelf: November 2018
This month we have a special issue on language and power. Co-curated by Jennifer Brown, Tracy Munusami and John Pateman, this collection of stories…
Carro, transporta libros or book truck: Navigating library stacks in two languages
For those of our colleagues with another first language, learning library jargon in English can sometimes mean getting disconnected from your mother tongue.
Dreeni Geer
Dreeni Geer is the director of human rights and equity at Lakehead University. A lawyer by education, she has supported human rights realization in…
Political correctness and society—have we really gone mad?
It seems entirely proper that people about whom the words are used can also have a say in how they like to be described and referred to.
Making room for diverse voices in our schools
It can be easy to say that our school library learning commons is a safe space [but] simply saying something out loud does not make it true.
Language and power in the academic library classroom
Language is an enactment of power. What it means to make choices on what I say and how I say it, affects those in the classrooms I teach in.