Juliene McLaughlin
Juliene McLaughlin is a User Experience Librarian at the University of Guelph. She engages with library users in a variety of different ways with the…
Kathryn Lee
Kathryn Lee is the Media Asset Management and Taxonomy coordinator at the CBC Libraries and Archives. Currently, she is a councillor-at-large for OLITA and…
Blue Ocean Strategy & Public Libraries
We like to think that public libraries are unique, and in many ways they are. The chances are that if they had never been…
Nancy Fong
Welcome to The Library IT Crowd – a new column brought to you by the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA). We want…
Coast to Coast to Coast: Digital File-Based Workflows at the CBC
On a busy day, the phone (yes, an actual telephone) would ring off the hook and, heart pounding, you would furiously scribble down notes,…
Jessica Watts
Jessica Watts is Coordinator of Outreach, Programs and Partnerships at the Greater Sudbury Public Library. She works with many local partners to develop new…
Deni Kasama
Deni Kasama holds a PhD in Linguistics from UNESP (Brazil), and he currently teaches linguistics and translation at UNILAGO, Brazil.
Snowshoes at Greater Sudbury Public Library
This past year the Greater Sudbury Public Library was fortunate to partner with the Lake Laurentian Conservation Area and Rainbow Routes Association to receive…
Rebecca Mackay
Rebecca Mackay is a student in the BA in Translation program at the University of Ottawa.
Different Views of “aboutness”: Rise of the Machines?
We all see things a little differently. Unique perspectives can help to feed curiosity and innovation. But in an era of information overload, differing…
What’s New in Open Shelf: November 1, 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…
Let’s talk about the ‘F’ Word!
I mean Friends … as in Friends of the Library! They are a blessing and a curse depending on your experience and always an…
Open to all?
The title for this column was taken from a piece of ground breaking research which I took part in as Head of Libraries in…