Startups in the library: supporting campus entrepreneurs
While academic librarians have supported campus startups and entrepreneurs since before the dotcom boom, the title Entrepreneurship Librarian is a relatively new one. When…
Matariki Digital Humanities Colloquium: Research and the Curriculum
Academic libraries are often said to be at the heart of the campus. Today, we’re also at the heart of the global campus. As…
Kelli Van Buskirk
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #33: Kelli Van Buskirk, Acquisitions, Adult Department, North Bay Public Library. Kelli and I…
Pokémon GO! 7 Ways a Library Took on a Phenomenon
Did you get caught up in Pokémon GO! fever? While the pace was frantic, Halifax Public Libraries was able to stay astride, and we…
Tabitha Lewis
Tabitha Lewis is currently the Library IT Support Technician in the James A Gibson Library and has taken a keen interest in growing the…
Martha Whitehead
Martha Whitehead is Vice-Provost and University Librarian at Queen's University. As a member of the Provost's team, she provides leadership in the ongoing development…
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…