What’s New in Open Shelf: February 15, 2017
What’s New in Open Shelf? is a Table of Contents of sorts. Open Shelf publishes when we have compelling new material. Every two weeks…
Indigenous knowledge practices
If you are interested in Indigenous collections, history and approaches to the work done by archivists, librarians and museum workers, then you might very…
Trends … here & around the world
Featuring trends and happenings in information institutions at home and abroad.
Small Communities Making and Trying
Where is the one place you could go to have fun with a 3D printer or horseback ride on a simulated horse? The library,…
Class and librarianship
The current crisis of capitalism has led to the renewed interest in Marxism and its core categories of analysis such as class and exploitation.…
Who is the Canadian academic librarian? Results from the first CAPAL census
Canada’s academic librarians are relatively young, enjoy stable employment and are not racially diverse: these findings are among the highlights of the first census…
Leigh Turina
Leigh Turina has been working at Toronto Public Library for over 25 years as a children’s librarian in a variety of branches, including 2…
Applying theory to pratice: hands-on experience for library students
As a student of the Master of Information (MI) program at the University of Toronto, I have the opportunity to take practicum courses, which…
Alvin M. Schrader
Dr Alvin M. Schrader is emeritus professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta, where he taught research…
Amy Kaufman
Amy Kaufman is the head law librarian at Queen’s University. She has co-authored Out of Practice: Exploring Legal Career Paths in Canada (Carswell, 2015)…
InsideOCULA newsletter: February 2017
So, this is goodbye: after joining the InsideOCULA editorial team in 2012 and moving through the ranks, so to speak, my term as editor-in-chief…
Equity & Social Justice in the Library Learning Commons
I read an interesting tweet recently about transforming the perception of school libraries from a warehouse for books to houses of student learning. The…