Connecting students to seniors: Channelling exam stress into creative card-making at U of T Libraries
Sabrina Macklai, Kaitlin Fuller, and Vincci Lui share a project that combined student wellness and community outreach during the winter holidays.
Are you stressed? Boosting resiliency at work
As library staff, we all deal with stressful situations such as a person haggling over $1.50 in fines shrinking budgets and rising costs. Whether we're up north or down south, reflection and sleep can boost our resiliency and stress-wrangling capacity.
Lego and Love in the Library
Let's face it, February is a pretty horrible month. It's cold and grey and, for students, fraught with deadlines for assignments and studying for…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: May 2015
As the winter term (and hopefully winter itself) comes to a close, we welcome the May 2015 issue of InsideOCULA. We have two new…
Stress Busters: Helping Students Survive and Thrive During Exams
Many of the students we support academically feel intense pressure to succeed. Add final exams to the mix and the increase in anxiety is…
Paws for a Study Break
Therapy animal programs (also known as Animal-assisted therapy or AAT) are commonly used in hospital and rehabilitation settings, where they “have a way of…