Darin White
We showcase some of the great library professionals currently working with technology, get to know them, and share their experiences.
Mohawk College’s Digital Creativity Centre: Discover, Create, Experience – a library re-imagined.
By Anna Johnston In September, 2018 Mohawk College’s Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation welcomed students to "seven stories of learning" in a 96,000…
Micro-controlled tinkering: Designing Arduino kits using 3D printing
Arduino is a fascinating and fun project for people who like to tinker with objects that they find around them. Originally introduced at an…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: April 2018
By Thomas Guignard Is it spring yet? The copse of tiny crocuses next to my front steps seem willing to believe it. For me,…
Exploring the possibilities: one college library’s digital media lab & makerspace experience
By Jaclyn Chambers-Page We had a room. We had an idea. We had a plan. This is the story of Niagara College Libraries’ Exploratory…
Reader, watcher, owner: Wholistic story-based library experiences
I spend a lot of my time reading books but also watching movies and, more often, watching other people play video games. Why? Because…
Makerspaces: Take two
Complete surprise and appreciation: this was my first reaction to reading a response to an article I had written for Open Shelf last spring…
Makerspaces: Service or learning resource?
At the 2017 Computers in Libraries conference, a librarian asked “Do you use your 3D printer, as a service or resource?" This seemed like…
Jonathan Younker
Welcome to The Library IT Crowd, a column brought to you by the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA). We showcase some of…
Krista Robinson
Welcome to The Library IT Crowd, a column brought to you by the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA). We showcase some of…
Uncovering the “truth” about makerspace
When given the opportunity to return to the teacher librarian role in recent years, I knew that including a makerspace was on everybody's library…
Small Communities Making and Trying
Where is the one place you could go to have fun with a 3D printer or horseback ride on a simulated horse? The library,…
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…