Prioritizing Library Services For Those With the Greatest Needs
One of the critical findings of Open to All? The Public Library and Social Exclusion (2000) was that people who use public libraries the…
One of the critical findings of Open to All? The Public Library and Social Exclusion (2000) was that people who use public libraries the…
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…
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #31: Tom Bentley (Coordinator, Information Solutions at the Brantford Public Library). I talked to a…
Recently, I was asked by a colleague at another library system to speak to their consultants about the library’s strategic plan. As a system…
1. Negotiate This seems self-evident, but I know many colleagues who don’t negotiate. In my conversations with library leaders (i.e. the people who hire…
If you were to take a poll asking what the most nerve-wracking aspect of the job search was, most people would say the job…
Fiona Inglis is a librarian at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She can be reached at fiona.inglis [at] camh.ca.
How do job interviews at college and university libraries differ? Two recently hired librarians, one from a college and the other from a university,…
Robin Sakowski is the Manager of Access Services at the University of Guelph Library. She is a member of the OLA Mentoring Committee and…
You’ve just found out you got the interview, and now your brain goes crazy. You start stressing about every little detail. And every big…