What’s New in Open Shelf: May 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…
Kathleen Schreurs
Kathleen Schreurs has a background in Professional Writing (B.A. from York University) and Information Studies (MISt from University of Toronto), she is currently a PhD Candidate at…
Lynne McKechnie
Lynne McKechnie holds a PhD in Library & Information Science. She is a Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the…
Kristen Caschera
Kristen Caschera is the information services librarian at London Public Library. She sits on the OPLA Readers’…
Readers’ Advisory – There’s an App for That!
Readers' advisory is provided in an ever-widening range of places and spaces. From the in-person reference interview to virtual chat, from websites to electronic…
The Tech Savvy Child E-reading: Children’s Experiences and Perceptions of E-Book Reading
Children are tech savvy. This statement should come as no surprise to, well, anyone. Their knowledge and skill are apparent in the way they…
User Experience and Translatability: Compatible or in Conflict?
UX (User eXperience) is not an easy concept to pin down, but there is general agreement that it focuses on the total subjective experience…
Dina Stevens
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #24: Dina Stevens. I spoke with Dina on a chilly February morning. What…
Gary Draper
Gary Draper has been a book reviewer and an editor, a librarian, and a university professor of English. His interest in books, and Canadian…
Graeme Campbell
Graeme Campbell is the Open Government Librarian at Queen's University Library, and former Editor-in-Chief of InsideOCULA.
InsideOCULA Newsletter: May 2015
As the winter term (and hopefully winter itself) comes to a close, we welcome the May 2015 issue of InsideOCULA. We have two new…
Tale of Two Cookbooks
Tale of Two Cookbooks was originally published in the Fall 2012 issue of OLA's Access magazine.
Jacqueline Whyte Appleby
Jacqueline Whyte Appleby is the Scholarly Resources Librarian at Scholars Portal, where she works on e-books, government documents, and web archiving projects. She is…