Around the province: McMaster faculty-member-in-residence promotes research
McMaster University Library broke new ground in July, when Brian Detlor was appointed as its first Faculty Member in Residence. Seconded from his regular…
Around the province: In praise of Guelph campus authors
Each year, the University of Guelph Library recognizes campus authors and their books at a special event: Campus Author. This celebration honours the…
Starting with accessibility: A strategy for developing video tutorials
By January 2014, public institutions across Ontario are required to meet the Information and Communications Standard of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act…
Around the province: Ryerson launches self-serve library kiosk
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…
Around the province: Engaging through pop-ups at UGuelph Ridgeway
During the summer semester of 2013 I decided to copy an idea for reaching outside the library to find new points of access…
OCULA 2013 Fall Conference: The Startup Library
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…
TUG Libraries take on large-scale collection management collaboration
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…
RULA wins CLA tech award
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 Spring Conference 2013
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…
E-book collections: Time to reassess?
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…
Writer-in-residence: A report on the Guelph Accessibility Conference
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.…
UWindsor repository showcases research
The Leddy Library launched its institutional repository, Scholarship @ UWindsor, in November 2012. Since then, the repository – powered by bepress Digital Commons software…
Western builds TIES between education and technology
Cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch inspired an audience of over 360 participants at the first annual Technology in Education Symposium, or TIES@Western for short,…