The Blue and Gold Award recognizes the efforts of librarians, technicians, and other library staff at the Ryerson University Library and Archives who collaborate…
McMaster University Library broke new ground in July, when Brian Detlor was appointed as its first Faculty Member in Residence. Seconded from his regular…
Each year, the University of Guelph Library recognizes campus authors and their books at a special event: Campus Author. This celebration honours the…
By January 2014, public institutions across Ontario are required to meet the Information and Communications Standard of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act…
RULA self-serve kiosk Located in the lobby of the Ryerson library, this touchscreen application was developed in-house by the Library and Information Technology Services…
During the summer semester of 2013 I decided to copy an idea for reaching outside the library to find new points of access…
In his “Think Like a Startup” white paper, Brian Mathews asserts that libraries don’t just need change, they need “paradigm-shifting, transformative, disruptive ideas.” But…
The Tri-University Group of Libraries (Guelph, Waterloo, and Wilfrid Laurier) known as TUG has embarked on a system-wide project to reduce duplication among low-use…
The Canadian Library Association (CLA) has awarded Ryerson University Library and Archives (RULA) the 2013 CLA/OCLC Award for Innovation Technology for the RULA BookFinder…
OCULA'S 2013 Spring Conference was a day filled with activities that definitely brought out the creative side of participants--like the button-making station…
Now that academic libraries have usage statistics for at least some of the e-books we have collected over the past decade, a review of…
This year’s annual Guelph University Accessibility Conference took place on May 28-29, allowing its attendees to experience the beautiful green campus in full bloom.…
The Leddy Library launched its institutional repository, Scholarship @ UWindsor, in November 2012. Since then, the repository – powered by bepress Digital Commons software…