John Vincent: Libraries, the universe & everything
I interviewed John Vincent by email in February, 2018. I have known John since we were both chief librarians in London in the 1990s.…
Many hats, a door that’s hard to close: Life in small(er) libraries
There are approximately 380 public libraries across Ontario. The majority of these libraries serve smaller, frequently rural populations, with 258 serving resident populations under…
Kelly Thompson
Kelly Thompson is the CEO/Chief Librarian at the Renfrew Public Library. As a child, she spent many years in the library she now manages. Having come…
Erika Heeson
Erika Heesen is the CEO/Chief Librarian at the Perth and District Union Public Library. She is a lifelong library patron, and remembers many hours browsing…
Catherine Fournier-Boulianne
Catherine Fournier is Management Librarian at University of Ottawa. She can be contacted at catherine.fournier [at] uottawa [dot] ca.
Helen Tang
Helen Tang is a Public Service Librarian, East Asian Library, at University of Toronto. She can be contacted at helent.tang [at] utoronto [dot] ca
Jordan Pedersen
Jordan Pedersen is a Metadata Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries, and an eager Library Carpentries instructor. She thinks of her work as…
What’s new in Open Shelf: March 2, 2018
Cultural ownership, advocacy and engaging readers in new materials are topics we tackle in Open Shelf this month. Kasey (Mallen) Whalley, a school library…
Reader, watcher, owner: Wholistic story-based library experiences
I spend a lot of my time reading books but also watching movies and, more often, watching other people play video games. Why? Because…
Play your cards right! Designing game-based information literacy
Game-based learning has been around since the beginning of time … don’t you think? As kids, we learn by playing and as adults we…
Gathering with the voices of Canadian school libraries: Treasure Mountain Canada 5
As a teacher librarian in a busy K-to-8 school it would be easy to get lost in the day to day operations of my…
Safe spaces: The cultural appropriation debate
The Safe spaces column is an attempt to explore today’s persistent socio-cultural debates in light of the alleged values of the librarian profession: intellectual…
Chris Jasztrab
Welcome to The Library IT Crowd, a column brought to you by the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA). We showcase some of…