The Oscars are this month (having been delayed from their original February date this year) and this month at Open Shelf we want to channel the glitz and glamour by unfurling a proverbial red carpet and introducing a series of extra-special features and new columns.

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.