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…
University of Toronto Library staff participate in Orientation 2012
New and returning students and staff at the University of Toronto took part in a series of fall orientation and U of T Libraries…
Carleton University: Creating a research portfolio
Graduate students at Carleton University attended a new library workshop in November: creating a research portfolio. Artists create portfolios because a “picture is worth…