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To serve and do good: Message from the OCULA President

Cyndi Smith shares her thoughts about the value of professional associations like OCULA in lean budget years and encourages members to get involved with OCULA Council in 2020.

InsideOCULA

InsideOCULA newsletter: April 2019

In this month’s issue of InsideOCULA, we begin by continuing our look at renewal initiatives, then explore special collections and events in two Ontario university libraries. Lastly, we have the final installment of the OCULA president’s column by Melanie Parlette-Stewart.

InsideOCULA, InsideOCULA Editor’s Message

Carro, transporta libros or book truck: Navigating library stacks in two languages

For those of our colleagues with another first language, learning library jargon in English can sometimes mean getting disconnected from your mother tongue.

Features

On the fringe? Librarians and academic program reviews

By Lynne Bowker In Ontario, quality assurance of academic programs has gained prominence recently. Programs at public universities must be reviewed every eight years,…

InsideOCULA

Freedom and Fake News: The College Faculty Strike

By Eva McDonald During the height of the college faculty strike, the College Employer Council (CEC) stressed three key things to the press: that…

InsideOCULA

Getting Your First Break as a Librarian: OCULA President’s Message

I got my first break as an academic librarian at the Steacie Science and Engineering Library at York University. York took a chance on…

InsideOCULA

New terminal degree: Yes or no?

If the role of academic librarians is changing and resembling more that of other faculty, should the PhD be the new terminal degree?

Special Issues

Research and the “value agenda”

A debate about the form, purpose, and quality of academic librarians’ research is taking place right now in the editorial pages of some of our flagship journals.

Special Issues

The PhD: New terminal degree?

Academic librarians are “scholar-practitioners.” We have a valued tradition of service (practitioner) but increasingly we also teach full-time and undertake extensive research (scholar).