Unlevel playing field
White middle class professional library values can create an unlevel playing field for Indigenous organizations and individuals. How? By privileging one world view over another.
Monica Socol
Monica Socol manages the Digital Technology Services team ats the Hamilton Public 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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.…
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…
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 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.