PhD as resistance: How the personal got political
It is challenging to resist the neoliberal imperatives that govern our work and practices as librarians.
Why pursue a PhD?
Getting a PhD is rewarding, but it is also a long and sometimes arduous process. Why do it? Thirteen academic librarians (four library directors;…
Advice to potential PhD students
What advice is important and useful to potential PhD students to understand the doctoral process?
Canadian RDM Survey: A Success Story Based on Collaboration
Faced with looming changes outlined in the Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management, such as data sharing and preservation, librarians at eleven…
Mita Williams
Welcome to The Library IT Crowd – a new column brought to you by the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA). We want…
Brock’s new Makerspace: connecting community and technology
In the April 2015 edition of Open Shelf, Jonathan Younker published In Praise of Maker Culture, describing the maker culture in the Brock Library’s Systems…
Preserving Ontario’s documentary heritage – one annual report at a time
Historical government information Government documents are primary source materials which form an important part of our documentary heritage. Over recent years, the resources allocated…
Matariki Digital Humanities Colloquium: Research and the Curriculum
Academic libraries are often said to be at the heart of the campus. Today, we’re also at the heart of the global campus. As…
Putting the Who in the Canadian Academic Librarian Community: CAPAL Census
Who are Canada’s academic librarians? That question will be answered by Canada’s first census of academic librarians, which attracted more than 900 responses from…
Ryerson University Student Learning Centre
"We wanted to create a campus hub: a technologically rich, flexible and congenial library environment to inspire interaction, introspection, discovery, and innovation. The Student Learning…
Dealing with the Big Day on Campus
How do job interviews at college and university libraries differ? Two recently hired librarians, one from a college and the other from a university,…