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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

Teen Lunch Bunch: Building trust and community at the Niagara Falls Public Library

It all started in the fall of 2017. Teens from the nearby high school mysteriously started appearing at one of our small branch library locations over the lunch hour. Week by week, the group grew, and so did the noise and food … and the sidelong looks from adult customers.

Features

RA in a Day 2018: Bringing Readers’ Advisory online

Every year, the OPLA Readers’ Advisory Committee brings together some of the best readers’ advisory advocates to share their knowledge and expertise on meeting the needs of adult readers.

Readers' Advisory

The Research Hub: A remote collaboration story

It is challenging enough to work on a project with a team based within the same organization. Now imagine doing so in a fully remote or virtual setting with colleagues representing a number of different library systems.

Features

Le droit d’auteur de la Couronne au Canada: une disposition désuète et inutile

Les bibliothécaires et le personnel des bibliothèques agissent souvent comme médiateurs entre les auteurs et les lecteurs. Cette relation s’inspire en partie de la loi canadienne sur le droit d’auteur.

Features, Publications en Français

Canada’s Crown Copyright: Outdated and unnecessary

Librarians and library staff often act as mediators between writers and readers, a relationship that is informed, in part, by Canada’s Copyright Act.

Features

Agnieszka Gorgon

Agnieszka Gorgon is an Instructional Design and eLearning Development Librarian at Seneca College. She is currently pursuing a Master of Education in Distance Education…

Contributors

Mélanie Brunet

Mélanie Brunet est la bibliothécaire des droits d’auteur à l’Université d’Ottawa depuis 2016. Avant de retourner dans le monde universitaire, elle était bibliothécaire dans…

Contributors

Amanda Wakaruk

Amanda Wakaruk est la bibliothécaire des droits d’auteur à l’Université de l’Alberta. Elle a travaillé en tant que bibliothécaire de l’information gouvernementale pendant plus…

Contributors

Laura Martin

Laura Martin, Manager of Community Development & Programming, works at the Niagara Falls Public Library. She can be contacted at LMartin@nflibrary.ca.

Contributors

Race matters

When I was thinking of a suitable title for this month’s column a number of ideas came to mind including “Decolonization is not a metaphor” and “Acknowledgement is not enough.”

Open for All?

What’s new in Open Shelf: September 2018

This issue continues the conversation we started in July about race. We also make space for two features on innovative programming as well as a new column that features members of the OLA Cultural Diversity and Inclusion Task Force.

What's New in Open Shelf?

Transformative conversation(s)

We take to heart the responses from Ontario Library Association (OLA) community members to the Open Shelf column Safe Spaces, and specifically the most recent post on race and privilege.

From the Editor

Hear to listen … Ici et tout ouïe

Have a strong feeling about something you read in Open Shelf? What to share your thoughts? Write a letter to the editor.

Editorial