Mita Williams
Welcome to The Library IT Crowd – a new column brought to you by the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA). We want…
Brock’s new Makerspace: connecting community and technology
In the April 2015 edition of Open Shelf, Jonathan Younker published In Praise of Maker Culture, describing the maker culture in the Brock Library’s Systems…
Preserving Ontario’s documentary heritage – one annual report at a time
Historical government information Government documents are primary source materials which form an important part of our documentary heritage. Over recent years, the resources allocated…
Matariki Digital Humanities Colloquium: Research and the Curriculum
Academic libraries are often said to be at the heart of the campus. Today, we’re also at the heart of the global campus. As…
Putting the Who in the Canadian Academic Librarian Community: CAPAL Census
Who are Canada’s academic librarians? That question will be answered by Canada’s first census of academic librarians, which attracted more than 900 responses from…
Ryerson University Student Learning Centre
"We wanted to create a campus hub: a technologically rich, flexible and congenial library environment to inspire interaction, introspection, discovery, and innovation. The Student Learning…
Dealing with the Big Day on Campus
How do job interviews at college and university libraries differ? Two recently hired librarians, one from a college and the other from a university,…
Closing the Sale in a Tough Job Market: OCULA President’s Message
In my previous message for InsideOCULA, I discussed the challenges that meet recent library program graduates. While new library workers struggle to gain a…
Inclusive Design at the OCULA Spring Conference
Inclusive design was the topic of the keynote by Jutta Treviranus at the OCULA Spring Conference.
Michelle Goodridge
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #30: Michelle Goodridge. If you’re both a librarian and a gamer, Michelle may…
Using Islandora to Build Digital Collections
We came together for the 2016 OLA SuperConference to discuss the different ways that our institutions are using Islandora to build digital collections. Our…
Open Access, Culture, and Modeling the Way
I believe gobsmacked is the word I’m looking for. David Lewis, Dean of the University Library at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, is an accomplished…
Textbooks for Change: Creating an Impact with Used Textbooks
“One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” In 2013, that became more than just an old saying for Chris Janssen, then a student at…