Finding Your Path and Your People: OCULA President’s Message
By Melanie Parlette-Stewart Here are some thoughts I’ve had as a librarian: “My boss is going to realize hiring me was a mistake.” “They’re…
The Learning Portal: An Update
By Jennifer Peters and Anabella Arcaya The Learning Portal is a collaboration between the Ontario college libraries, several Ontario college learning centres, and the…
Thomas Guignard
Thomas Guignard is Director of Services at the Ontario Colleges Library Service (OCLS). He is also a volunteer instructor for Software Carpentry and Library…
Exploring the possibilities: one college library’s digital media lab & makerspace experience
By Jaclyn Chambers-Page We had a room. We had an idea. We had a plan. This is the story of Niagara College Libraries’ Exploratory…
Jaclyn Chambers Page
Jaclyn has an Honours B.A. in English from McMaster University and completed her Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Western…
Catching some Zen at Cambrian College Library
By Marnie Seal Have you ever wanted to catch some “zen” throughout your day, but just found the environment around you a little too…
Marnie Seal
Marnie Seal is the Librarian at Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology in Sudbury. She holds a BA from Laurentian University (2008) and…
On the fringe? Librarians and academic program reviews
By Lynne Bowker In Ontario, quality assurance of academic programs has gained prominence recently. Programs at public universities must be reviewed every eight years,…
Crossing the WCAG 2.0 threshold: Reading the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
A 21st century challenge for the world is to make the web accessible for people with disabilities. Fortunately, Ontario has provided a framework for…
Powerful IL partnerships: Learning commons support for marginalized subjects
I like to think of the educational and health care systems in Ontario as being similar to some extent: teachers are the family doctors…
Respecting anonymity through collection development
In the second article in this limited series of conversations, Amanda Wilk and John Vincent discuss readers’ advisory for LGBTQ+ people, and trends in…
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…