April 3, 2017
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…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: April 2017
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…
Calling all Mentors and Mentees: OLA Mentor Match
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…
Getting Your First Break as a Librarian: OCULA President’s Message
I got my first break as an academic librarian at the Steacie Science and Engineering Library at York University. York took a chance on…
April fools & fake news
Although April Fools’ Day often comes with a few good laughs, in many ways I approached the first day of April 2017 with a sense…
Ryan Tucci
Ryan Tucci (MLIS) is the Communication and Journalism Librarian in Research Support Services at Carleton University’s MacOdrum Library. His research interests include informal learning,…
April 1, 2017
In this special issue, we bring to the forefront some very bizarre stories. While they may have eluded the mainstream news outlets, these stories…
Tales from the Shelf, vol. 1
Shaz Stevenson from the Open Shelf Public Library (OSPL) has shared with us a story of a request from a strange visitor for a…
Conservative leadership race and libraries
The Conservative Party leadership race is really starting to heat up now that libraries have become one of the key areas for discussion and…
Trump moves ahead with controversial book travel ban
President Trump took some time out of his busy tweeting schedule to speak to us, the Library Fake News Network (L.F.N.N.), about one of…
Library implements “ACE”: Artisanal Cuneiform Experience workshops
Last year we reported that University of Guelph students had staged a sit-in over the planned removal of the Library’s paper abstracts and indexes…
Dana Craig
Dana Craig is the Environmental Studies Liaison Librarian at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her work has revolved around teaching and advocacy in academia and…
Jeff Dodge
Jeff Dodge is the Collection Development Librarian at Vaughan Public Libraries. He currently sits on the OPLA Readers’ Advisory Committee and the Evergreen Award…