Memespiration: What do you want from Santa?
With the winter season on the horizon, those of us in academic libraries are well into the “final assignment” season and answering research questions such as, “Can you check my citations?”
Genealogy 101: So you’re a genealogy librarian. Now what?
I used to feel frustrated when assisting patrons with their genealogical queries, partly because I lacked adequate training. But this subject can be mastered with formal and informal training.
Each day is interesting: Supporting research and innovation at a regional health centre
Kimberley Aslett has no regrets about becoming the lone health librarian in her local hospital. She revels in a job where every day is different because her role is to directly support health research and innovation.
Genealogy 101: Knowing your genealogy patron
Before I became a genealogy librarian, I was never really into tracing lines of ancestral descent or into knowing my family tree. Discovering family history seemed so abstract.
InsideOCULA newsletter: July 2018
With the arrival of summer, many of us will be looking forward to holidays, but summer months spent at work can also be a useful time to revisit projects or start new ones. In this month’s issue of InsideOCULA, we look back at past successes and highlight renewed projects from the OCULA community.
Ontario colleges celebrate 10 years of askON
By Siobán Linnen OLA 2018 marked the 10th anniversary of the askON Virtual Reference service, which launched at the OLA SuperConference in 2008 as…
STAPLR: Sounds in Time Actively Performing Library Reference
"That music is simple to make comes from one’s willingness to accept the limitations of structure. Structure is simple be-cause it can be thought…
ASKON Adds Text!
For a virtual reference service to remain relevant to users, it must evolve to reflect trends in digital communication.
Around the province: Engaging through pop-ups at UGuelph Ridgeway
During the summer semester of 2013 I decided to copy an idea for reaching outside the library to find new points of access…
Alison Head: Investigating Information Literacy (Part Two)
Alison J. Head, Ph.D., is the executive director of Project Information Literacy (PIL), a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society…