Acknowledging Territory
The Ontario Library Association (OLA) would like to acknowledge the territory and land on which we are gathering. The region known as Tkaronto (Ta-ka-ron-toe) was and remains, a gathering…
April 18, 2017
Now that we're all well rested from the long weekend, we can tackle some issues in the library community! Who is with me? Learn…
Uncovering the “truth” about makerspace
When given the opportunity to return to the teacher librarian role in recent years, I knew that including a makerspace was on everybody's library…
Culture, Goebbels and 1984
The timing of the UK’s first white paper for culture in more than 50 years, and only the second ever published, is curious to…
My five-month mission: To boldly go where …
I have not gone before. Mission background: To make a “Best Bets” list of titles for this year’s RA in a Day, an annual…
Re-discovering the HWDSB Discovery Centre
The Hamilton Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) Discovery Centre - formerly Kit Services - began over 30 years ago. As the school board’s education…
RIMMFing: RDA cataloguing sans MARC
Author, title, publisher, year of publication—that’s all the bibliographic description needed to find an item, right? Maybe for a monograph but, even for one…
The Value of Super Conference
I’ve written a few times about the changing roles involved in running libraries and how 'proving our worth’ has become a full-time job in…
From Student to Scholar: Building Capacity for Graduate Student Academic Literacies and Research Skills
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…
La Casita Azul: A Unique Project with Significant Consequences
As a result of a short but exciting conversation in 2014, the idea of a York University library in Costa Rica was born. After…
Once Upon a Time: 2017 OCULA Spring Conference
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…
OCULA Lightning Strikes Session at Super Conference 2017
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
Erica Friesen is a second year Masters of Information student at the University of Toronto. She is currently employed as a graduate assistant at…