Let’s Give Them Something to Tweet About: Applying Best Practices at Western Libraries
In The Librarian's Nitty-Gritty Guide to Social Media (ALA, 2013), Laura Solomon advises that social media is “incredibly easy to learn but can take a…
Dredging a Wake: An Interview with Video Artist Jenn E. Norton
On a cold Friday night last December, I wandered into the Hamilton Art Gallery and stumbled upon a dark and puzzling exhibit called Dredging…
Going Up! A DIY Study Innovation!
Many university libraries grapple with the challenge of accommodating both students who desire individualized quiet space, and those who are engaged in noisier collaborative…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: March 2015
Welcome to the March 2015 issue of InsideOCULA. This month’s issue includes: Library Pre-Shows: Making the Most of a Captive Audience by Mark Weiler…
Megan Copp
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #23: Megan Copp. I sat down with Megan during the OLA SuperConference, in…
Judging a Book by Its Cover
The old stern warning not to judge a book by its cover has been superseded by today’s advanced visual marketing techniques – we can rely on…
Siu Hong Yu
Siu Hong Yu is a MLIS graduate student at Western University. He hopes to combine his background in science, his love for the arts…
Adele Georgievski
Adele Georgievski is a Teaching and Learning Technologies Librarian at Seneca College. She creates the Random Library Generator column on Open Shelf which interviews OLA members;…
Mine the Gap: Leveraging Open Access Through Citizen Engagement in Science
The progress of science is a cumulative process, one that fundamentally depends on the rapid and widespread dissemination of new findings, so that they…
What’s New in Open Shelf: March 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…
Carol Stephenson
Carol Stephenson is a librarian currently on study leave from Wilfrid Laurier University, exploring Open Access from the perspective of the researcher and the perspective of publisher business models.…
Barbara McDonald
Barbara McDonald is Interim University Librarian at Brock University. She can be reached at bmcdonald [at] brocku.ca or at @bjmcd2 on Twitter.