What’s New in Open Shelf: October 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…
Jessica Veldman
Jessica Veldman is an Information Services Librarian at the Wellington County Library. Jessica received her MLIS from the University of Western Ontario, and has…
Connecting Communities at the Wellington County Library
Wellington County has a 14-branch library system and serves a large geographical area, and even with Wi-Fi and public computers in all of our…
Bravery in Collaboration
Working in libraries we must be brave. Bravery can come in many forms - the socially conscious books we add to our collection, the…
Common Purpose Collaboration
One of the fun and informative OLA staff activities we hold annually is showcasing one of our accomplishments to each other in response to…
“So Many Books, So Little Time”: Creating Your Own Genre Plan
The results from Library Journal’s survey of readers’ advisors, “The State of Readers’ Advisory", suggest that “the biggest cause of RA angst is keeping up…
Margaret Wall
Margaret Wall is a librarian at the University of Toronto, where she is cross-appointed to the Reference & Research Services department at Robarts Library…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: October 2016
Welcome to the October edition of InsideOCULA! In this month's OCULA President's Message, Denise Smith reflects on lessons learned while balancing the challenges of presidency with…
Adventure Collection at the Lennox & Addington Libraries
In an effort to promote the County of Lennox & Addington’s adventure tourism projects, the County of Lennox & Addington Libraries developed a “library…
Streamlining Access to Digitized Canadian Government Information
Librarians at Canadian institutions are working to preserve government information and make it accessible to researchers through digitization. Preventing duplication of effort in this…
A UX Librarian Goes to Ottawa: Minimizing Censorship in Canada
Earlier in the spring, I gave testimony to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics. They asked me…
Joanna Blair
Joanna Blair is a Teaching and Learning Librarian at Seneca Libraries, Seneca@York campus. Joanna is currently serving as the Liaison for the Faculty of…