The Case for Free Flow Book Exchange
In education we often use IF, THEN statements to guide changes to our programming and practice. IF I change this, THEN my students will……
New Librarian Residency Award: OCULA president’s message
Last month Open Shelf published a special issue on the New Librarians’ Symposium at Ryerson University last June. In July, InsideOCULA published an issue focused…
Libraries and the future of higher education: OCULA Fall Conference
Staff at libraries around the province engaged with each other virtually during OCULA's Nov. 23 fall conference focusing on "The Next Transformation: Libraries and…
Ali Versluis
Ali Versluis is a Research and Scholarship Librarian at the University of Guelph, in the traditional territory of the Attawandaron/Neutral People. In this role,…
New Librarians Symposium: Special Issue
The New Librarians Symposium (NLS) happened on Friday, June 24th at Ryerson University. In this special issue of Open Shelf, we (the event’s co-organizers)…
Notes from the Field: Examining Issues in the Profession
As part of NLS’s registration process we invited attendees to choose a few topics that they would be interested in discussing during the Birds…
What’s the Deal With NLS Anyway?
The genesis of the New Librarians Symposium happened—as all decisions to hold a brand new, medium-size event do—after a conversation. The two of us—a…
NLS: By the Numbers
This Special Issue of Open Shelf consists of eight articles reflecting on the New Librarians Symposium held in June 2016. The Symposium focused on…
What’s New in Open Shelf: November 15, 2016
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…
NLS Revealed: Our Top Five Surprises
It was challenging to parse through all of the ideas and conversations from NLS and distill them into bite-sized chunks. Naturally, this difficulty is…
“Honest and Relatable in a Sincere Way”: Reflections from NLS Attendees
We asked three NLS attendees to reflect on their day. Here is some of what they said: What was the biggest surprise of NLS?…
“Nobody Dies”: Some Advice for New Professionals
We asked mid- and late-career information professionals what advice they would give themselves as a new librarian. Here is what they said: “Sometimes you…
Moving Forward: A Reflection on Lessons Learned
As to be expected with organizing an event for the first time, there was much for us to reflect upon and take forward. First,…