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…
“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…
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.…
Unpaid Labour in Ontario Academic Libraries
Our research interest is the extent to which unpaid internships are used in the library sector, and the perspectives of the individuals fulfilling these…
Adele Magowan
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #22: Adele Magowan. Five years ago the Random Library Generator column was born…
Marilyn McDermott
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #20: Marilyn McDermott. Marilyn McDermott is a librarian for the Mohawk/McMaster Institute for…
Institutionalizing Smarter, Better, Faster
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is a graduate research university in Saudi Arabia designed to foster the best scientific research…
Elevator Speech on Accessibility
How to build a website? How to build an engaging website? How to build an engaging website that is also accessible? How to build…
Students Go Hands-on at UTSC’s First Trading Competition
What does it take to win an intense stock trading competition dominated by teams of finance students? A team of accounting students. Haoran Shi…
University of Toronto Expands Orientation
University of Toronto (UofT) Libraries expanded its orientation activities this year. In addition to the various libraries holding their own orientation events locally, the…
Science Literacy Week: Libraries Come Together to Celebrate Science
The inaugural Science Literacy Week took place from September 22–28 at institutions across Toronto, including the Toronto Public Library, University of Toronto, Mississauga Public…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: November 2014
The November issue of InsideOCULA focuses on innovation, key concepts in information literacy, and the way the world views us. And, as always, we…
Lorna Rourke
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #19: Lorna Rourke. Lorna Rourke is the Library Director at St Jerome’s University…