Barbara McVeigh
Barbara McVeigh is a secondary school teacher-librarian with the Peel District School Board. She scribbles and pedals in her spare time. Continue the conversation…
The School Library: Where vs. Who
If you asked someone to describe a school library, what would they say?
Maya Rodale
Maya Rodale began reading romance novels in college at her mother’s insistence. She is now the bestselling and award winning author of numerous smart…
Romance Novels: More Than Just Trashy Books
I had the great honour of speaking to the Ontario Library Association’s conference about romance novels. While these books are incredibly popular — this…
Piwik: Breaking Away from Google Analytics
Many of us in the library community who have a responsibility to assess the usage of our library’s websites have become very familiar with…
Horses and Water: the Learning Organization
It has often been said that you can take a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. Conventional management thinking suggests that…
Stephen Spong
Stephen Spong is the Director of the John and Dotsa Bitove Law Library and Copyright Officer at Western University. You can find Stephen on…
Miranda Hill
Miranda Hill is changing Canada's literary landscape .... quite literally. As Executive Director of Project Bookmark Canada, she is creating the Canadian Literary Trail…
Copyright and the AODA
In Ontario, the year 2012 was something of a perfect storm for accessibility and copyright in libraries. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)…
What’s New in Open Shelf: February 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…
Sonification: A Special Issue of Open Shelf
Sonification .... "the use of non-speech audio to convey information." Data transformed into sound (or music) reveals meaning in a new way. Like visualization, sonification…
William Denton
William Denton works at York University as both the scholarly analytics librarian and the mathematics and statistics librarian. His library-related performances include a site-specific…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: February 2016
Winter finally arrived in January, just in time for our return to campus after the holidays. While the new year has brought us snow…