Touting your own horn: Advocacy for academic libraries
Advocacy for academic libraries is becoming increasingly necessary in today’s world—we need to tout (or is it toot?) our own horns and make ourselves…
Advocacy for academic libraries is becoming increasingly necessary in today’s world—we need to tout (or is it toot?) our own horns and make ourselves…
The 2016 OCULA Spring Conference is just around the corner! As lead planner for this year’s event (along with co-planners Fiona Inglis and Chris Landry),…
Reflections of an OCULA New Librarian Resident 1. Engage faculty My role of Scholarly Communications Librarian is the first of its kind at OCAD…
Research interest To explore how ideas about information seeking, information literacy and culturally responsive teaching can inform the design of instruction programs to meet…
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #29: Melanie Parlette-Stewart. I spoke with Melanie right before the Winter break so…
In 2015, McMaster University Library was invited to participate in Science Literacy Week (September 21-28). This event, launched in 2014, was created by Jesse…
Over the past decade, the concept of embedded librarianship has really taken hold. Motivated by the pioneering efforts of embedded librarians, and inspired by…
It’s hard to believe, that this was only the third Government Information Day (GID) organized in Ontario. The first was organized in 2013 by…
Let's face it, February is a pretty horrible month. It's cold and grey and, for students, fraught with deadlines for assignments and studying for…
For many years the Victorian Era has been a scholarly and personal interest of mine. It is an extremely relevant epoch; many of the…
In recent years the availability of data has soared, and there is a need for new methods for perceiving patterns and trends in this…
Eighteen first year university students walk into a classroom and are told they have to decide the future of the Guelph Public Library. Yikes.…