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…
Lydia Tsai
Lydia Tsai is a Metadata Librarian at Seneca Libraries, Markham campus. She enjoys working with digital repositories and creating web content. She can be…
Making Space for Zines at Seneca Libraries
How it got started In the summer of 2015, the library was approached by two faculty members in Seneca’s Illustration Program about starting a…
Eva Revitt
Eva Revitt is a Subject Specialist Librarian at MacEwan University supporting the School of Business and Communication Studies program. She is also the Chair…
Putting the Who in the Canadian Academic Librarian Community: CAPAL Census
Who are Canada’s academic librarians? That question will be answered by Canada’s first census of academic librarians, which attracted more than 900 responses from…
A Found Balance, and Lessons Learned: OCULA President’s Message
For many past presidents, the opportunity to serve on the OCULA council executive is an opportunity to develop or refine leadership skills, work with…
Right to Know
The first Freedom of Information (FOI) law was passed in Sweden in 1766, 250 years ago. On September 28th, also known as International Right…
How Hip Is the Partnership? The Value of a Generalist Journal in a Niche World
Partnership Journal The Partnership journal is a Canadian, open-access journal that covers every library sector and is written by library practitioners on a variety…