Jonathan Younker
Welcome to The Library IT Crowd, a column brought to you by the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA). We showcase some of…
Canada 150: Diversity & library schools
In 1867, library schools as we know them had not yet been founded. Diversity was not formally defined as race, ethnicity or access challenges,…
Toni Samek
Dr. Toni Samek is a professor and the chair at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, where she has taught…
Selinda Berg
Selinda Berg is a librarian at the University of Windsor, concurrently completing her LIS doctorate at Western University.
Denise Koufogiannakis
Denise Koufogiannakis is Associate University Librarian at the University of Alberta.
Jackie Druery
Jackie Druery is Head Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian at Queen’s University and one of the coordinators of the Inquiry@Queen’s Undergraduate Research Conference. She…
Abeer Siddiqui
Abeer Siddiqui is a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia’s MLIS program (2016). She currently serves as the School of Interdisciplinary Science…
Paul Laverdure
Après son doctorat en histoire, Paul Laverdure s’est lancé dans l'archivistique, la traduction, l’édition, et les recherches à la pige. Depuis 2008, il est…
Amber Leahey
Amber Leahey is the Data & GIS Librarian at Scholars Portal, the digital library project of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL). She…
Rob Makinson
Rob Makinson is the Coordinator, Library Communications and Liaison Librarian at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His research interests include analog and digital gaming…
July 1, 2017
We have a wide-range of things for you to read as we all return to work after the long Canada Day weekend. It seems…
June 15, 2017
The month of June is LGBT Pride Month and we are lucky enough to have this Issue's Trees and Forests column contribute to the…
Fake news and manufacturing consent
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance" – George Bernard Shaw Given all the fuss that has been made about fake…