What Should I Read Next? : Staff Picks
Looking for a way to highlight materials you have enjoyed, increase circulation and start a conversation with customers about library items? Staff picks are…
Shanna Pearson: Advocacy, Professional Development & Historical Fiction
A column from the OCULA president is a traditional feature in InsideOCULA, but we’ve changed things up this time: please enjoy a Q&A with…
Helping Researchers Manage, Preserve and Promote Their Data
Data is a hot topic for researchers, judging by the positive reaction to case studies and practical topics related to data management presented during…
Sharon Murphy
Sharon Murphy is Head of the Academic Services Division at Queen’s University Library.
Peggy Lunn
Peggy Lunn began her professional career as a Secondary teacher in Nova Scotia. She shifted into Teacher Librarianship with the rise of electronic…
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…