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 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 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 is Management Librarian at University of Ottawa. She can be contacted at catherine.fournier [at] uottawa [dot] ca.
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 is a Metadata Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries, and an eager Library Carpentries instructor. She thinks of her work as…
Cultural ownership, advocacy and engaging readers in new materials are topics we tackle in Open Shelf this month. Kasey (Mallen) Whalley, a school library…
I spend a lot of my time reading books but also watching movies and, more often, watching other people play video games. Why? Because…
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…
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…
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…
Welcome to The Library IT Crowd, a column brought to you by the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA). We showcase some of…
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…
