Pekka Reinio
Welcome to The Library IT Crowd, a column brought to you by the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA). We showcase some of…
RIMMFing: RDA cataloguing sans MARC
Author, title, publisher, year of publication—that’s all the bibliographic description needed to find an item, right? Maybe for a monograph but, even for one…
From Student to Scholar: Building Capacity for Graduate Student Academic Literacies and Research Skills
A team from OCUL institutions has created a new, highly interactive and media-rich online resource to help graduate students in the social sciences develop…
La Casita Azul: A Unique Project with Significant Consequences
As a result of a short but exciting conversation in 2014, the idea of a York University library in Costa Rica was born. After…
Once Upon a Time: 2017 OCULA Spring Conference
The theme for this year’s OCULA Spring Conference is Storytime: Using narrative to represent ourselves, our work, and our library, but what is a…
New terminal degree: Yes or no?
If the role of academic librarians is changing and resembling more that of other faculty, should the PhD be the new terminal degree?
Research and the “value agenda”
A debate about the form, purpose, and quality of academic librarians’ research is taking place right now in the editorial pages of some of our flagship journals.
The PhD: New terminal degree?
Academic librarians are “scholar-practitioners.” We have a valued tradition of service (practitioner) but increasingly we also teach full-time and undertake extensive research (scholar).
Academic librarians and the PhD: Introduction
Academic librarians typically have academic status, freedoms, and responsibilities.
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?