Brandi Gillette
Brandi is the Community Librarian at Halton Hills Public Library. As a Community Librarian, she is responsible for building and growing partnerships with local…
Supporting equity, diversity and inclusion at the University of Toronto Music Library
Over the past year, members of the University of Toronto Music Library team have taken on significant projects to change how the Library operates and the resources they provide. This month, Tegan Niziol will outline the Library’s initiatives to engage in an active effort to increase equity, diversity and inclusion in the support we provide for music studies.
Tegan Niziol
Tegan Niziol is a fourth-year PhD candidate in musicology at the University of Toronto. She earned her Bachelor of Music (2014) and Bachelor of…
Call for submissions: July unconference issue
Open Shelf is proud to announce that our upcoming July issue will have a special theme: The Open Shelf Unconference Issue! Inspired by these participant-led and organized conferences, we want to encourage innovative and engaging discussion and dynamic topics which are dictated by contributors' interests.
Volunteer opportunity: Open Shelf editor-in-chief
The Ontario Library Association is seeking an interim editor-in-chief for Open Shelf. This position is responsible for stewarding the vision of the magazine, coordinating the efforts of the editorial team and overseeing the smooth operation and timely publication of the magazine.
Word of the month/Mots du mois: Subject heading
We will be featuring a “Word (Or Phrase) Of The Month” each issue, courtesy of Library Lexique. This is a tool to feature useful and thematic words or phrases which may arise in day-to-day library work. This month's is "subject heading."
793.73 “Shelving 101”
In this entry of his monthly puzzle column, 793.73, Douglas challenges readers with a dastardly and delightful shelving-themed logic puzzle. See if you can determine the correct appearance of the shelving unit he describes.
Challenge and transitions
In this limited series, Dr. Shoshana Magnet shares some of the picturebooks that she believes are powerful agents of social transformation and positive change. This month, as the country slowly begins to open and we see changes all around us, she reviews two books that are about the challenge of transitions, including how simultaneously scary and wonderful they can be.
Shoshana Magnet
Shoshana Magnet is a mother of two and a professor of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. She writes a listserv…
Weeding as an anti-racist practice: A conversation with Dr. Monica Eileen Patterson
Collection management is an important component of library work in part because the materials on our shelves reflect our deepest cultural beliefs and experiences. I am learning from my colleague, Dr. Monica Eileen Patterson, withdrawing some of Dr. Seuss' books from publication is the right thing to do because children should not be exposed to racist imagery and stereotypes. And yet, there may be times when we might still need access to some of these texts in order to understand how racism operates in our communities.
Monica Eileen Patterson
Monica Eileen Patterson is Assistant Director of Curatorial Studies in the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture, and Associate Professor…
Cultural diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Tiffany Miller is the Indigenous Library Liaison at Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Open letter protesting the sudden laying off of four librarians at OCADU
OCULA Council protests the sudden decision to lay off four senior librarians at OCAD University as part of a library reorganization.