What’s new in Open Shelf: November 2020

So, we’ll bend Tom Jones’s lyrics for Try to remember:

Try to remember the kind of November
When life was slow[er] and oh, so mellow[er].
Try to remember the kind of November
When grass was [not longer] green and grain [not] so yellow.
Try to remember [this] kind of November
 … And if you remember then follow, [follow], [follow].

This iconic song is from the Broadway musical The Fantasticks … and so appropriate as we almost close out 2020: a year most fantastick.

This month we are finishing off some two multi-part articles, one on creating an open educational resource and the other on evaluating information related to Indigenous-Crown relations. We are also continuing our profile of school librarians and bringing you a new column (Technical expertise) and two features: One on celebrating Hallowe’en safely and the other on finding the right web conferencing tool.

Here are the articles, in the order that they appear in the magazine.

• Trick or treat, lots to eat … at the drive-thru
• Raising your profile: New social media support for Open Shelf contributors
• The joys of job hunting: In Technical Expertise, a new column from library tech Brianna Allen
• Taking responsibility: A single source may be CRAP when talking about governance
• Transitions in uncertainty: a message from the InsideOCULA Editor-in-chief
• Due north: Recovery phases for a new library
• Amplifying the voices of school libraries: Jonelle St. Aubyn
• APA tutorial take two: The benefits of OERs and Pressbooks across sectors
• Calls for stories: Code of conduct (coding) and Comfort and joy (the holidays)

And take our monthly polls on Halloween and Pressbooks.