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,…
Sharing stories, transferring knowledge: Carleton University’s Indigenous Human Library
Often we learn the most about each other when we sit together, break some bread and share our stories. This winter Carleton University…
Exploring history at U Waterloo
Susan Saunders Mavor, Head of Special Collections at the University of Waterloo Library, will use her 2013 Edna Staebler Research Fellowship to explore the…
Brock library website gets a student makeover
To improve access to high-priority tools and services, the web team at James A. Gibson Library reached out to the Brock community last December…
Alison Head: Investigating Information Literacy (Part One)
Alison J. Head, Ph.D. is the executive director of Project Information Literacy (PIL), a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society…
Editorial: why academic freedom matters to librarians
Academic freedom is important for academic librarians. Unfortunately, not everyone understands our position and sometimes we are not able to succinctly or convincingly lay…
More than Mario Kart: games and game-based learning at Carleton University Library
The dust has settled from the 2012 holiday consumer frenzy and it appears the video games Halo 4 and Call of Duty: Black…
Putting uWaterloo on the map – Google-style
The University of Waterloo Library's Geospatial Centre helped to put more of the University of Waterloo on the map this fall! Geospatial Centre staff…
OCULA/WNYO-ACRL Spring Conference: A bold future for academic libraries
"The crisis is over. Move on.” With this, Mike Ridley, keynote speaker at the 2012 OCULA/WNYO-ACRL Spring Conference, started us on a journey to…