A team from OCUL institutions has created a new, highly interactive and media-rich online resource to help graduate students in the social sciences develop…
As a result of a short but exciting conversation in 2014, the idea of a York University library in Costa Rica was born. After…
The theme for this year’s OCULA Spring Conference is Storytime: Using narrative to represent ourselves, our work, and our library, but what is a…
When I first saw OCULA’s call for student Lightning Strikes talks, I purposefully thought very little about the consequences of submitting a proposal despite…
Erica Friesen is a second year Masters of Information student at the University of Toronto. She is currently employed as a graduate assistant at…
Karen McGrath is past President of OPLA and OLA (2012), and until Dec. 2016 she was Director of Niagara College Library and Bookstore Services.…
Dr. Elan Paulson is Director of the Doctor of Education (EdD) in Educational Leadership at Western University’s Faculty of Education, providing administrative oversight and…
Dr. Cory Laverty is Teaching and Learning Specialist for Queen’s Centre for Teaching & Learning and Queen’s Library. She supports educational research, inquiry-based learning,…
In this post April Fool's Day release, we reflect on the role of satire in a post-truth world, and introduce a new issue of…
Spring is a time for new beginnings. If only it would stop snowing in Ontario, we could believe the calendar--didn’t it tell us that…
The OLA Mentoring Committee is dedicated to developing and implementing sustainable mentoring-related activities and services for OLA members and for library education programs in…
I got my first break as an academic librarian at the Steacie Science and Engineering Library at York University. York took a chance on…