Showcasing Undergraduate Research at Queen’s University Library
It might seem like liberty and the city; surveillance, security and urban governance; Atlantic salmon restoration in Lake Ontario; and immigrant women’s health issues…
Factors in Academic Librarian Research Success
"Research" by Nick Youngson / CC BY-SA 3.0 Canadian academic librarians are increasingly conducting original research as part of our work. Across the country,…
Celebrating Collaborations in Ontario Academic Libraries
In the previous issue, I wrote about getting your first break as an academic librarian. While working in college and university libraries, we can…
Spinning Stories: the Role of Storytelling in our Work
On my office desk sits a postcard. It’s a single panel from a pen and ink comic telling the tale, as the artist describes…
The Ontario Historical Topographic Map Digitization Project: Past, Present, Future of Academic Map Libraries
About The Ontario Historical Topographic Map Digitization Project is a province-wide collaboration to inventory, digitize, georeference, and provide broad access to early topographic maps…
Trends … Here & around the world
Featuring trends and happenings in information institutions and more at home and abroad.
InsideOCULA Newsletter: July 2017
This month, our country celebrates 150 years of confederation, through which provinces and territories have come together to form Canada as we know it…
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…