Michel Castagné
Michel Castagné is the Web Initiatives Librarian at the University of Ottawa. Send him an email: michel.castagne [at] uOttawa.ca.
Joanna Szurmak
Joanna Szurmak is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Toronto Mississauga Library. When not working on digital collections or tinkering with her…
Big Bookstore School Library Fundraisers
In recent years, it has become an increasingly popular practice to hold school library fundraising events at a large bookstore chain. We have all…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: June 2015
Welcome to the June 2015 issue of InsideOCULA! For your reading pleasure this month, you’ll find: Data Day: Helping Queen’s University researchers manage, preserve…
OpenMedia: Why Should Librarians Care?
Anyone who is tuned into recent grassroots actions being taken on behalf of keeping the Internet an open network, like recent protests against Bill…
BiblioTech by John Palfrey
I really wanted to like this book. But for the most part, I didn't. And that's a shame. Books that effectively champion the continuing importance…
Tell Me a Story: How Librarians Use Narratives in Instruction
A few years ago, Mindy and I [Joanna] started talking about how we teach and discovered that we wove the strands of the content…
Susanna Galbraith
Susanna Galbraith is the Virtual Services Librarian at McMaster University’s Health Sciences Library. She received her MLIS from the University of Western Ontario and…
Our Digital World
Our Digital World (ODW) is a not for profit organization that supports digital stewardship at every level by providing software, technology and services for…
The Future of Library Education: Reflections of a Newly Educated Librarian
I had the unique opportunity to explore some of my ideas about the future of library education during my involvement in a recent panel…
What’s New in Open Shelf: June 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…
Mindy Thuna
Mindy Thuna is currently on secondment to the Gerstein Science Information Centre as the Coordinator of Resource Sharing and the Liaison to Undergraduate Medical…
The Community-Led Public Library
What does a Community-Led Public Library look like? At the core of the Community-Led Library is relationship building, both internally (within an organisation) and…