What’s New in Open Shelf: October 15, 2015
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…
Libraries as Publishers – Accessible Open Access
As the Visiting Program Officer with the Association of Research Libraries, I have worked on a number of accessibility-related projects and produced a series…
Organize! Influence!
The October 19th election will soon be complete and a new parliament will be determined. Whatever their political stripe, the library community will want…
Jason Griffey, OPLA Spotlight, Super Conference 2016
Jason Griffey is the founder and principal at Evenly Distributed, a technology consulting and creation firm for libraries, museums, education, and other non-profits. Jason…
Public Libraries and Happiness
Can public libraries make people happier and healthier? There is close link between equality and happiness. The people who live in more equal countries…
Jan Dawson
Jan Dawson is the Services & Communications Coordinator at OCLS and the askON Project Manager. Her interests lie in reference, service, tech, and community…
Sharron Smith
Sharron Smith is the Manager of Bibliographic Services at the Kitchener Public Library and founding Chair of the OPLA Readers’ Advisory Committee.
OPLA’s Readers’ Advisory Committee – A 10 Year Reflection
What could be simpler, connecting readers and books, right? The truth is, it isn’t easy, and library staff, while often readers themselves, can find…
ASKON Adds Text!
For a virtual reference service to remain relevant to users, it must evolve to reflect trends in digital communication.
Ali Abbas Mehboob Hirji
Shortly after his travels through Nunavut in 2014, Ali became a Canadian Citizen. That journey has defined "Canadian" for him - surely, being Canadian…
Toronto Welcomes Access Conference
Access is an annual Canadian library technology conference that typically takes place in late September or early October and is hosted in various cities…
Debbie Green
Debbie Green is Head, Reference and Research Services, Robarts Library, University of Toronto Libraries. She can be reached at debbie.green [at] utoronto.ca
A Library in the Place of Many Fish
My 2014 travels through Nunavut have brought me to appreciate the symbiosis between the people and the library. There are 11 public libraries in…