Bienvenue à la bibliothèque: Barriers to providing French-language library services
By: Katherine van der Linden and Claire Dionne This article is the first in a three-part series exploring the challenges of offering French-language library…
Coming off the page: 3-D posters liven up the IFLA experience
In the poster area at the IFLA WLIC, we can find out about the work that inspired, engaged, connected and enabled our colleagues in other parts of the world to facilitate change.
OLS – North launches two First Nation public library websites
The two new Ontario Library Service – North websites have been designed to support language revitalization and First Nation public libraries.
UNESCO Year of Indigenous languages: What are you doing?
We at Open Shelf want to learn more about how Ontario libraries will honour Indigenous languages in 2019.
Carro, transporta libros or book truck: Navigating library stacks in two languages
For those of our colleagues with another first language, learning library jargon in English can sometimes mean getting disconnected from your mother tongue.
What the … [add library superlative language here]?
Humans have created numerous theoretical lenses to give order to and make sense of the world.
Words matter
Words can be both very precise and interpreted widely. As such there is no single authoritative definition of anything.
Call for proposals on language & power
“You know you’ve just talked your way into an article for Open Shelf?” Anyone having a conversation with me may find themselves at the…
He reo e kōrerotia ana. He reo ka ora: Subject headings, a living language and Māori well-being
Ko tēnēi te mihi ki te tangata o te whenua nei. Karanga mai, mihi mai, karanga atu ra. I would like to acknowledge the…
Indigenous knowledge practices
If you are interested in Indigenous collections, history and approaches to the work done by archivists, librarians and museum workers, then you might very…
User Experience and Translatability: Compatible or in Conflict?
UX (User eXperience) is not an easy concept to pin down, but there is general agreement that it focuses on the total subjective experience…
Machine Translation: Can It Help Newcomers Access the Public Library?
In a public library, community outreach efforts aim to develop library programs for non-users, the under-served, and people with special needs within the community…