Hidden figures: Book or movie?
We love to compare books and their screen adaptations ... plot and people, pace and perspective. Which version is better, the movie or the…
A little redesign
We’ve been doing a little redesign on Open Shelf … leveraging the strengths of the publication with what we know are best practices for…
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…
Two views on 2017
Here is the bird's eye (view) from our president and executive director. Leslie Weir and Shelagh Patterson are happy to share their thoughts on SuperConference and…
Textbooks for Change: Creating an Impact with Used Textbooks
“One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” In 2013, that became more than just an old saying for Chris Janssen, then a student at…
Miranda Hill
Miranda Hill is changing Canada's literary landscape .... quite literally. As Executive Director of Project Bookmark Canada, she is creating the Canadian Literary Trail…
Sonification: A Special Issue of Open Shelf
Sonification .... "the use of non-speech audio to convey information." Data transformed into sound (or music) reveals meaning in a new way. Like visualization, sonification…
Colin Ellard & the Meanings of Space
Colin Ellard is a professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo. His obsession is space ... how we navigate through it and make…
Dredging a Wake: An Interview with Video Artist Jenn E. Norton
On a cold Friday night last December, I wandered into the Hamilton Art Gallery and stumbled upon a dark and puzzling exhibit called Dredging…