You’ve probably noticed a few staffing changes at OCLS over the past few months. We are pleased to announce the appointment of three new staff members who have joined the team: Galina Korosteliov, Programmer Analyst; Cajetan Fernandes, Systems Analyst and Helpdesk Technician; and Michelle Ng, eResources Services and Support Associate.
We are also excited to announce several staffing changes, as Siobán Linnen takes on the role of Projects and Communications Coordinator, Nicole takes on the role of Acting eResources Coordinator, and Rebecca LaFrance is appointed Virtual Reference Services and Support Associate. Please read on to get to know the new (and not-so-new!) members of the OCLS team.
Last year, OCLS hosted a webinar providing the Ontario college libraries with the opportunity to showcase and share innovative practices for managing eresources. We had a great turnout and interest for more, so we would like to host another one this upcoming fall.
At this time, we are looking for volunteers to present on any of their practices that could be interesting or useful to other college libraries. Please consider any tools, procedures, or practices that help your library manage eresources in areas such as:
Evaluation and assessment
Managing multiple formats (including digital audio/video and data)
Workflows or automation
Troubleshooting
Licensing and permitted uses
Access & authentication
Marketing
Accessibility
Metadata
We would like to keep the topics pretty broad so the only restriction is that your topic pertains to eresources.
The Open Educational Resources (OER) Toolkit is a resource integrated in the Learning Portal to provide information and tools to help faculty and library staff across all publicly funded colleges in Ontario to understand, engage with, and sustain OER in their work and practice.
In the spirit of open resources, the OER Toolkit is freely available for reuse under a Creative Commons license. To make it even easier to reuse on LibGuides, the platform that hosts the Learning Portal, the toolkit is now available on LibGuides Community.
OCLS is pleased to introduce a new version of the model licence developed specifically for use by individual college libraries. The new model licence is now available on the “OCLS Model Licence” web page in ERMA.
By Liana Giovando, Principal Consultant at Pertinence.ca and Thomas Guignard, Director of Services, OCLS
The Ontario Colleges Library Service (OCLS) is helping college libraries to integrate more data into library discovery layers to provide a more robust and rewarding search experience for college library users.
Library discovery layers such as Primo, EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), and Summon allow libraries to offer a single search interface to explore across separate collections and repositories. For example, OCLS teamed up with Pertinence.ca and discovery layer vendors to integrate college library content into these services so that more information is available to users through a single interface.
The OCLS model licence is an important tool used by the OCLS eResources team to negotiate the most advantageous licence terms and conditions as possible for the Ontario college libraries. Developed in 2013 using best practices from other Canadian library consortia, it also included input from the college libraries’ Copyright Interest Group (CIG) and AODA Committee. The model licence gives OCLS leverage to negotiate with vendors and language to help ensure that key terms and conditions important to the colleges are included.
This fall, the OCLS eResources team will host a webinar providing the Ontario college libraries with the opportunity to showcase and share innovative practices for managing eresources.
At this time, we are looking for volunteers to present on any of their practices that could be interesting or useful to other college libraries. Please consider any tools, procedures, or practices that help your library manage eresources in areas such as:
Evaluation and assessment
Managing multiple formats (including digital audio/video and data)
Workflows or automation
Troubleshooting
Licensing and permitted uses
Access & authentication
Marketing
Accessibility
Metadata
The only restriction is that your topic pertains to eresources.
OCLS offices will be closed from December 23, 2017 to January 1, 2018 inclusive. We will reopen on Tuesday January 2, 2018. We will be monitoring remote systems and help desk access points from 7:30am-10:00pm each day and will respond to emergency service requests.
