Ontario Library Association (OLA)

Best laid plans: Quarterly update on the Open Shelf strategic plan

While Robert Burns laments plans gone wrong, we can celebrate a plan gone right. In late 2019, the Open Shelf editorial board finalized its first-ever strategic plan and, overall, the results in this first year are promising.

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Care calls, PPE production and more: How Ontario public libraries have responded to COVID-19

To learn more about how public libraries were responding and adapting to physical buildings closures, OLA issued a survey in March 2020. Here are the summarized results of this survey.

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Six “big” K-12 library questions in a pandemic world

Recently, members of the Ontario School Library Association (OSLA) council had "big questions" when they chatted online about the pandemic and its impact on K-12 school library learning commons.

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A sheepdog herding thoroughbreds: message from the OCULA President

In her outgoing President's Message, Cyndi Smith thanks her colleagues on OCULA Council, looks forward to 2020, and reflects on leadership, impostor syndrome, and being a library technician in a room full of librarians.

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Seeking nominations

We are now inviting OLA members to nominate colleagues (or themselves!) for vacant OLA Board and Council positions.

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Introducing OLA’s Advocacy Toolkit

We are working to organize networking and communication opportunities and to make resources related to advocacy available to libraries. To fulfill our mandate, we officially launched the OLA Advocacy Toolkit in May 2019.

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Kids’ lit folks: Join the OLA Best Bets Committee

The OLA Best Bets Committee is inviting you to apply to one of four positions currently open on the committee.

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Claim this space

This particular blank space is waiting for members of the Ontario Library Association (OLA) community to fill it up, decorate it, contribute.

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Claim this space

This particular blank space is waiting for members of the Ontario Library Association (OLA) community to fill it up, decorate it, contribute.

Canvas[s]OLA

Claim this space

This particular blank space is waiting for members of the Ontario Library Association (OLA) community to fill it up, decorate it, contribute.

Canvas[s]OLA

Common Purpose Collaboration

One of the fun and informative OLA staff activities we hold annually is showcasing one of our accomplishments to each other in response to…

Bird's Eye

Lifting others up through leadership: OCULA President’s Message

I’m not going to lie: when I applied for library school in early 2011 I had no idea what I was getting into. I…

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Library Day at Queen’s Park

As my term as OCULA President comes to an end, I would like to say what an honour it has been working with members…

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