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.

 

Yellow and pink balloons with smiles

    Why did the Romanian stop reading for the night? To give their Bucharest!

 

 

 

 

 

And take our monthly polls on Halloween and Pressbooks.

 

 

Open Shelf Editor

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