Librarian to Life Coach
What is so important that if you don’t have it, your whole life feels off? What’s stopping you from having that important thing in…
House of Books No More
If you open a browser on your phone, tablet or computer and search for the definition of a library, you might find the following:…
Annesha Hutchinson
Annesha Hutchinson is the Marketing and Communications Coordinator for the Ontario Library Association. After completing her Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Sociology, she finished…
Linda D. Lowry
Linda D. Lowry is the Business and Economics Liaison Librarian at Brock University. Her research interests are related to investigating business and economic information-seeking…
Colin Ellard & the Meanings of Space
Colin Ellard is a professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo. His obsession is space ... how we navigate through it and make…
Jeremy Clark
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #26: Jeremy Clark. I spoke with Jeremy while he was at home, where…
What’s New in Open Shelf? September 1, 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…
Bridging the Business Data Divide
Academic librarians and data specialists use a variety of approaches to gain insight into how researcher data needs and practices vary by discipline, including…
The Guelph Library Project
The Guelph Public Library has been trying to build a new main library for many years. Many, many years. The current 1965 facility is…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: September 2015
As I write this message, the windows in my 11th floor office overlook a calm and quiet campus that will soon spring to life…
Make It Snappy: Kaleidoscope is a Crowd-Pleaser at Queen’s University
Staff at college and university libraries have a lot to think about, but too rarely have a chance to collectively engage in professional conversations…
Gillian Akenson
Gillian is currently shared between her roles as Research & Instruction Librarian and Organizational Development & Learning Librarian at Queen's University. She can be…
Celebrating One Year of Open Shelf
Open Shelf has been publishing for 1 year. If you listen carefully you can hear a tremendous sigh of relief. When we started planning the…