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The old stern warning not to judge a book by its cover has been superseded by today’s advanced visual marketing techniques – we can rely on…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.
Ian Gibson
Ian Gibson is a Collections Librarian at Brock University. He can be reached at igibson [at] brocku.ca or at @IanGibson11 on Twitter.
“It’s Like the Wild West Out There”: Faculty Attitudes Towards Open Access Publishing
What do faculty members think about Open Access (OA) publishing and how do they choose where to publish? While some librarians embrace OA for…
Mark Weiler
Mark Weiler, Web and User Experience Librarian, works at Wilfrid Laurier University. He can be contacted at mweiler [at] alumni.sfu.ca.
Library Pre-Shows: Making the Most of a Captive Audience
In the early weeks of my first liaison appointment, I wanted to observe as many classes in my program areas as I possibly could…
Katey Stickle
Katey Stickle is a second year Master of Information student at the University of Toronto's iSchool. She hopes to work as a research or…
Snapshot from OLA SuperConference 2015: Suffering from Library Anxiety?
Library and information studies (LIS) students might seem like an unlikely group of people to suffer from library anxiety. However, a popular poster presentation…