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…
Shanna Pearson
Shanna Pearson is the User Services Coordinator at Seneca College Libraries and Past OCULA President. She can be reached at shanna.pearson[at]senecacollege.ca.
STAPLR: Sounds in Time Actively Performing Library Reference
"That music is simple to make comes from one’s willingness to accept the limitations of structure. Structure is simple be-cause it can be thought…
Katie Legere
Katie Legere has degrees in music from Queen's University and the University of Toronto as well as a Bachelor of Education and Master’s degrees…
OA policies in Canada: a quick and dirty environmental scan
As I settle into my role as this year’s OCULA New Librarian in Residence, I have made it a priority to expand my…
The Third Government Information Day in Ontario
It’s hard to believe, that this was only the third Government Information Day (GID) organized in Ontario. The first was organized in 2013 by…
Agnes Zientarska-Kayko
Agnes Zientarska-Kayko is a Liaison Librarian for the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development at the University of Waterloo. Other areas of her responsibilities…
Hélène LeBlanc
Hélène LeBlanc is the Head of User Services and the Government Information and Political Science Librarian at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. She can…
Jack Jamieson
Jack Jamieson is a PhD student at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. His research examines how emerging communication technologies affect and are affected by cultural and…
Lego and Love in the Library
Let's face it, February is a pretty horrible month. It's cold and grey and, for students, fraught with deadlines for assignments and studying for…
There’s Information in Music and Music in Information
"A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence" - Leopold Stokowski Sonification is defined as the use of non-speech…