Exchanging Aussie Sun for Canuck Deep Freeze
Since January 2015, I’ve been living and working in Toronto on a one-year exchange as a Liaison Librarian at Ryerson University. Back in my…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: November 2015
It’s very strange to work on an issue of InsideOCULA without my editorial companion, Jenaya Webb. Jenaya and I joined the newsletter team in…
Adventures in Social Media: Lessons Learned
The University of Guelph Library uses social media to interact and have conversations with our undergraduate students and the larger campus community. We want…
Caroline Haythornthwaite, OCULA Spotlight, Super Conference 2016
Caroline Haythornthwaite is Professor, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, The iSchool at The University of British Columbia where she served as Director…
Aaron DeVries
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #27: Aaron DeVries. I spoke to Aaron DeVries, branch manager at Innisfil Public…
Chris Landry
Chris Landry is the Scholarly Communications Librarian/Digital Projects Curator at OCAD University and recipient of OCULA’s 2015 New Librarian Residency Award. He can be reached…
Open for Collaboration: Open Access Week at OCAD University
Introducing open access This September I assumed my role as scholarly communications librarian/digital projects officer at OCAD University—a position made possible by OCULA’s 2015…
Ewan Gibson
Ewan Gibson is currently the Instructional Technologies Specialist at Seneca College Libraries. He helps co-ordinate the Sandbox, a multimedia facility and instruction program at…
What’s New in Open Shelf: November 1, 2105
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…
Rob Tiessen
Rob Tiessen (tiessen [at] ucalgary.ca) has been a Librarian at the University of Calgary since 1999. He developed a strong interest in copyright during…
The Public Lending Right in Canada: a Librarian’s Perspective
2011 was the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Public Lending Right (PLR) in Canada. The 25th anniversary was cause of much celebration…
Kimberly McMunn
Kimberly McMunn is the CEO of Hastings Highlands Public Library. She can be reached at hhplceo [at] gmail.com.
Program Turnout Without Resource Burnout: A Case for Community Hubs
We were in a no-win situation. It was time to be pro-active instead of reactive.