COVID-19 – OPEN SHELF

Ebook Convenience Trumps Print Book Preference in Post-COVID Academic Libraries

Music materials are unique items in the library world and must be approached in ways that consider the many different formats and content types. James Mason provides an examination of the considerations that factor into describing music materials so they can be found.

Columns, InsideOCULA, Limited Series

Customer relationship management for readers’ advisory

This month, Trevor Deck walks us through the library’s collection development mandates, scope and goals.

What's New in Open Shelf?

Bienvenue à la Bibliotheque: Anglophone and francophone perspectives on French-language services (Part 2)

This month, Trevor Deck walks us through the library’s collection development mandates, scope and goals.

What's New in Open Shelf?

In Memory of Sharron Smith: Public Libraries Champion

This month, Trevor Deck walks us through the library’s collection development mandates, scope and goals.

What's New in Open Shelf?

Meaford’s New Main Library Branch – Creating a Village Library

This month, Trevor Deck walks us through the library’s collection development mandates, scope and goals.

What's New in Open Shelf?

Family reconfiguration through a queer lens: My Sometimes Dad

This month, Trevor Deck walks us through the library’s collection development mandates, scope and goals.

What's New in Open Shelf?

What is a social worker’s place in the library?

This month, Trevor Deck walks us through the library’s collection development mandates, scope and goals.

What's New in Open Shelf?

Preserving freedom of expression in our libraries

This month, Trevor Deck walks us through the library’s collection development mandates, scope and goals.

What's New in Open Shelf?

Supporting communities through successful engagement

The pandemic has challenged the way libraries connect and engage with their local communities. Here are some of the exciting findings shared by presenters as part of the OPLA Community-Led Think Tank's Community Conversation and what they might mean for the future of community librarianship.

Features

Challenge accepted!

It’s a new year and a great time for making reading resolutions. One form this resolution may take is to respond to a Reading Challenge. Taking this type of challenge can not only be fun, but also a great opportunity to change some of our entrenched reading habits.

Columns, Readers' Advisory

Back to blogging: Revitalizing blogs in the age of COVID

Staff at the University of Toronto Music Library have gone "back to blogging" and this form of outreach has proven to be a successful way to keep in touch with patrons during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Features

Good-bad, bad-good: The joy of celluloid failure in the Car Hole Cinema

After the first, frigid weeks (then months) of the quarantine had passed, Douglas Davey found himself missing his old world. It was in the midst of these doldrums that he exhumed a long-buried idea: converting his sketchy garage (or “car hole”) into a movie theatre.

Features

Recovery phases for a new library—Weeks of moving, selling, and unpacking!

One of the challenges of working through a pandemic has been to complete activities that were well in the works prior to a transformative change in working conditions—like moving into a new library.

Due North

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