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…
Annotations: Writing short & sweet reader guides
If you work in a public library, chances are you’ve been asked to write an annotation. While it seems relatively simple—write a few words…
Eva McDonald
Eva McDonald is the librarian faculty union steward at Centennial College. She can be reached at emcdonald [at] centennialcollege.ca.