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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

Becoming the University of Toronto Music Library: Wrapping Up our 100th Anniversary Year

In 1921, the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto (which had been established in 1918) took over the operation of what was then the Toronto Conservatory of Music’s library. This month, we wrap up the series by looking back at the ways we celebrated this year.

Becoming University of Toronto Music Library, Columns, InsideOCULA, Limited Series

James Mason

James Mason is the Metadata and Digital Initiatives Librarian for the Music Library at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the U of…

Contributors

OCULA President’s Message – Summer 2022

The last couple of years have been transformative, and I invite you to take a moment now to give yourself credit for your bravery, patience, strength, resilience, and for persevering through such unprecedented adversity. You are doing a great job, and I'm proud of you.

InsideOCULA

Humber Libraries: The pursuit of enhancing staff skills with the help of a tech trio

Humber Libraries staff, like many other libraries, were faced with having to not only adjust to a new workplace dynamic but the need to quickly adapt to new technology and software.

InsideOCULA

Alexandra Tome

Alexandra Tome is a library technician who recently joined Mount Allison University Libraries and Archives but started her career at Humber Libraries. Throughout her…

Contributors

What’s new in Open Shelf: October 2021

The team at Open Shelf has returned after our end-of-summer break reinvigorated. We enjoyed our “time off,” but are just as excited to meet the challenges and joys of the autumnal season.

What's New in Open Shelf?

Consumer Health Report

Open Shelf is proud to be launching a new bi-monthly feature on consumer health resources about select topics. Stay tuned to learn about consumer health websites, print or e-books and other relevant resources.

Columns, OHLIA Consumer Health Reports

Access points: 4 Steps to gain metadata experience in academic libraries

Metadata helps us organize our collections and empowers users to find information—but how do new library and information science professionals access these skills for themselves?

Access Points, Limited Series

Word of the month/Mots du mois: mystery novel

We will be featuring a “Word (Or Phrase) Of The Month” each issue, courtesy of Library Lexique. This is a tool to feature useful and thematic words or phrases which may arise in day-to-day library work. This month's is "mystery novel."

Columns, Word of the Month/Mots du mois

Amanda Caputo

Amanda Caputo is a Councillor-at-Large for OHLIA and has been since 2021.

Contributors

Sarah Bonato

Sarah Bonato is a health science librarian at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, ON and is a graduate of the…

Contributors

Micheline Persaud: une pionnière des services en français dans les bibliothèques de l’Ontario

Micheline Persaud (née Boyer) occupe une place de choix dans l’histoire des services en français des bibliothèques de l’Ontario. Franco-ontarienne née à Ottawa en 1943, son parcours professionnel échelonné sur près de trois décennies nous rappelle le contexte effervescent des années 1960 à 1990 y compris les mouvements de revendications ainsi que la croissance rapide et les transformations dans le secteur des bibliothèques publiques, des services jeunesse et des services en français en Ontario.

Features, Publications en Français

Collections considerations: What goes into curating Canada’s largest music library

This month, Trevor Deck walks us through the library’s collection development mandates, scope and goals.

Becoming University of Toronto Music Library, Limited Series