Open Digital Badges: the New Education Credential
You may have earned a badge in your life. Often when people think of badges, they think about the Girl Guides or Boy Scouts…
Avery Swartz, OLITA Spotlight, Super Conference 2016
Avery Swartz is a Toronto-based award-winning web designer, consultant, speaker, and tech skills instructor. She is the founder and CEO of Camp Tech, the…
John Tooth
John Tooth is the Copyright Officer, and Head of the Copyright Office for the University of Winnipeg Library. He is co-chair of the University’s…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: October 2015
Welcome to the October 2015 issue of InsideOCULA. This month we're featuring two articles we hope will provide some inspiration and keep the creative…
Scandal, Demand & Scheduling or Why We Don’t Get Some of the Speakers You Asked For
Some of the most welcome and popular keynote speakers OLA has featured at the Super Conference have been CBC media personalities. Every one of…
Public Libraries and Well-being
Can public libraries contribute to individual and community well-being? The research suggests this is so. As a result libraries should embed this within their strategic objectives.
Reading about Reading: Elevate Your Work from a Job to a Passion
In her 1979 book, Language of the Night, Ursula K. Le Guin observed that many people are anti-fiction: “We tend, as a people, to…
What’s New in Open Shelf: September 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…
Shawnee Hayward
Shawnee Hayward has recently completed her MLIS studies at Western University and waits impatiently for Convocation. In the meantime, she is a Page at…
Emerging Librarian Competencies: Accessibility as a Core Competency
I believe that there are a number of core competencies which all librarians should be encouraged to develop, and they include accessibility.
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:…