Your membership in the Ontario LibraryAssociation, the oldest and largestlibrary association in Canada, brings

with it many benefits. The OLA endeavours toseek out deals where your investment in theAssociation results in benefits to you or yourinstitution. The goal is to give to you a very tan-gible reason to be a member of OLA, in addi-tion to all the professional benefits.

For example, as an OLA member you haveaccess to both of these databases: LibraryLiterature and Information Science Full Textand Library and Information Science Abstracts.This is a unique service among library associa-tions and is offered entirely free with your OLAmembership. Take advantage of this resource toenhance your research, presentations and pro-fessional decision-making. OLA's license coversall personal uses of this full text database byOLA members in good standing.

Another great benefit is that OLA members andmembers of other provincial library associationssave 50% or more on Paper of Record™ (PoR).PoR is a searchable 7,000,000 page collectionof historical newspaper titles primarily fromCanada, but with some content from the UnitedStates and other parts of the world. Coveragebegins with newspapers from 1752 and extendsto the present time.

With your membership you also receive OLA'sAccess Magazine, as well as significant dis-counts on Super Conference registration andEducation Institute events. Members ofOCULA also receive the division's newsletter,InsideOCULA, and discounts on all OCULAevents.

Enhance your professional expertise and experi-ence by getting involved with OCULA and par-

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ticipating in OLA events. We invite you tocome out to Super Conference, consider servingon OCULA Council or OCULA committees,and to participate in OCULA initiatives andprofessional development activities. Contactany OCULA council member for more informa-tion. You may also access OLA's MemberBenefits page and OCULA's web site by visit-ing the OLA site at http://www.accessola.com.n n n

This issue ofInsideOCULA is beingwritten at one of the

peak times of the academicyear. Amid the hustle and bus-tle of providing students withexemplary services I urge youto look at OCULA’s sessionsfor the Super Conference.Mark Robertson and CynthiaMcKeich have worked hard toorganize and assemble one ofthe strongest programs plannedto meet the needs of Universityand College Librarians. A totalof 28 sessions has been assem-bled, including Blaise Croninas our keynote speaker.

We entered the current yearslightly down in membership.After sending a letter to non-renewals outlining the benefitsof OCULA membership weare now 399 members strong(OLA member number, 4192).You can help in memberrecruitment by encouragingyour colleagues who are notcurrently members, especiallyany new librarians and techni-cians, to join OLA.

There was no annual SpringDinner this year as one of theoriginal Toronto hosts couldnot participate. New partner-ships in hosting are beingexplored and we are confidentthat the Annual Spring Dinnerwill resume in 2004.

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The Education Institute (EI) of OLAhas some wonderful opportunities forprofessional development. Please takeadvantage of the variety of sessionsoffered. OCULA has two representa-tives on the EI, and Council looks for-ward to adding sessions of specificinterest to OCULA members.

OCULA is making its presenceknown in a variety of ways and for-mats. New brochures have been pro-duced which outline who we are andthe advantages of being a member. AnOCULA banner will be seen at theOLA booth at Super Conference. TheOCULA website will soon have thesame look and feel as OLA’s website.This represents a tremendous amountof work by Deborah Wills, SophieBury and Andrew Ryther in the OLAoffice.

Once again OCULA will be havingan election for Councillor, provingthat members are interested in partici-pating in the governance of the divi-sion and in OLA! Our newVP/President elect, by acclamation, isSharon Munro, who has proven to bean outstanding Council member andis greatly involved in OLA matters.

As this is my final message asPresident of OCULA , I wish to thankand commend the Councillors:Candice Dahl (editor InsideOCULA),Sophie Bury (Website) , EvaMacDonald (Treasurer), Jeff Moon(Past President), Sharon Munro(incoming VP/President elect andMembership) and Delia Antonacci(incoming President) for their com-mitment, diligence and hard work.Their dedication to the division and tothe OLA is inspiring and OCULA isricher for their contributions. n n n

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Around the Prov ince

Brock UniversitySpecial Collections and Archives at Brock University recently acquired a major donation fromCanadian advertising executive Terry O’Malley. O’Malley was the creative director and presi-dent of Vickers and Benson Ltd. (now Vickers and Benson Arnold), a Canadian advertisingagency that represented world famous clients. A winner of nearly two hundred national andinternational awards, including CLIOS and the Cannes Festival Lion, Terry O’Malley isremembered for his Show Your Cheddar More Warmth, Mellow Yellow – Just Butter It and theRed Leaf Liberal campaign that helped elect two Canadian Prime Ministers.

University of TorontoWEB-4-ALL, developed by the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) at theUniversity of Toronto Libraries, was launched in Winnipeg. Web-4-All "smart card" technologyenables computers to adjust to individual user needs, such as having typefaces enlarged or textread aloud. This technology makes Community Access Program sites more accessible to thoserequiring non-standard computer technology.

York UniversityOn September 24, York University Libraries celebrated the 2.5 millionth volume added to theircollection since the beginning of the Libraries in 1961. The occasion was marked by a recep-tion hosted by University Librarian Cynthia Archer and attended by Chancellor Avie Bennett,President Lorna Marsden and others. Over the 43 years of the Libraries, an average of 58,140volumes have been added each year.

In October, York’s Archives & Special Collections received an exceptional and rare collectionof antiquarian books by and on philosopher John Locke. The donation, valued at over$150,000, was made by York Professor Emeritus John Yolton, and his wife, Jean. The collectionis considered to be the finest and most complete compilation of Locke monographs in the worldand includes many early editions.

The Scott Library recently opened its new Reading Room on the second floor. This 12,000 sq.ft. space includes 200 seats (lounge seating and wired tables), lots of laptop drops, a wirelessnetwork, the current periodicals area, and a subtle but effective sound-masking system.n n n

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Lakehead UniversityTrudy Mauracher is the new CollectionsDevelopment/Reference Librarian at the Chancellor PatersonLibrary.

McMaster UniversitySheila Pepper retires as Associate University Librarian(Services) in December 2003. Vivian Lewis (formerly BusinessLibrarian) has been appointed to this position effective December15, 2003.

Tafila Gordon-Smith, Interlending & Document SupplyLibrarian, is taking early retirement in December after 31 years ofservice. Donna Millard has been appointed to this position for afour month term starting in January 2004.

Nipissing University and Canadore CollegeThe Education Centre Library, North Bay, which serves NipissingUniversity and Canadore College, has filled the following posi-tions to help meet the demands of increased service for the doublecohort:Laura Sinclair is the Manager of Reference and InformationServices. Laura was previously employed by the EducationCentre Library as Distance Education librarian.

Donna Bourne-Tyson is the Manager of Library TechnicalServices. Donna's previous position was Systems Manager andHead of Reference & AV at the North Bay Public Library. Priorto that she worked in public, government and special libraries andas manager of technical support for a healthcare software compa-ny. Donna is currently serving as treasurer and past-president forOLITA.

Charlotte Innerd is the new Distance Education librarian.Charlotte is a recent graduate of FIMS at UWO. As a library stu-dent she did a four month co-op term at the University ofWindsor's Leddy Library and worked part time at HuronUniversity College Library.

Ontario College of Art and DesignThe OCAD Library is pleased to announce two new employees: Harriet Mulder (BA, BFA, Library Techniques Diploma) joinedthe Library Services team in the new position of LibraryTechnician, Circulation & Print Archives. Previously, she workedfor 12 years at Centre AlphaPlus Centre.

Robert Fabbro (BA Japanese Studies, BEd, MLIS, MA AppliedLinguistics, MA Art History) was hired in the new position ofLibrarian - Reference & Access Services. He comes to OCADfrom the Pratt Institute where he worked as an AssociateProfessor.

PEOPLE NEWSRyerson UniversityOphelia Cheung and Susan Patrick, Librarians from theBorrower Services Team of Ryerson Library, presented the paper"Unmediated is the message: consortially-facilitated, user-centredapproaches to enhancing interlibrary loans: one academic library'sexperience" at a plenary session of the 8th IFLA Interlending andDocument Supply International Conference in Canberra,Australia, on October 30, 2003. The theme of the Conference was"Breaking barriers: reaching users in a digital world". It was heldfrom October 28 to October 31, 2003 and was attended by 271delegates and presenters from 24 countries from around theworld. Ophelia and Susan's presentation covered the OCUL con-sortial purchase of netLibrary eBooks, Ryerson Library's CISTISource document delivery project, and RACER, OCUL's VDXinterlibrary loans system. Apart from presenting the paper, thelibrarians promoted RACER to other Zportal/VDX users andmade initial contacts for future resource sharing. Both the paperand PowerPoint presentation are linked from the conference web-site at http://www.nla.gov.au/ilds/abstracts/unmediatedisthe.htm.The conference convenor also created a link from their paper toan OCUL questionnaire for Zportal/VDX users on the RACERstaff support page, and responses from various institutions arebeing received.

Mandissa Arlain began work in November as the new AV/ILLLibrary Technician on the Borrower Services Team. Mandissagraduated from the Seneca College Technician program in 1999.For the past three years Mandissa has worked at Seneca and since2001 has been at the Seneca@York Campus facilitatingInterlibrary Loans, in-person and online Reference, and Web sup-port.

Lei Jin has been appointed to the position of Serials Librarian,Collections Team. Lei has a Masters degree in InformationStudies from Rutgers University as well as a Masters degree inCommunication from Illinois State University. Prior to coming towork on contract at Ryerson in February 2003, Lei worked as ateaching assistant at Rutgers. During the summer of 2002, Leiworked as an research intern at Factiva, a Dow Jones and ReutersCompany. Lei's appointment began on December 1, 2003.

Cecile Farnum has been appointed to the position of Librarian,Borrower Services Team. Cecile has a Masters degree inInformation Studies from the University of Toronto as well as anMA in Art History from York University. Most recently, Cecileworked as a research librarian providing research support todevelop the Canadian Directory of Patient Safety Definitions.She was also a Graduate Assistant Library Technician at theGerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto,where she provided reference and research assistance to studentsand faculty. Cecile will begin work the first working day ofJanuary 2004, January 5th.

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2003 OCULA CouncilPRESIDENT

Martie Grof-IannelliFanshawe College Library(519) 452-4430 Ext. 4351

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VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECTDelia Antonacci

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PAST PRESIDENTJeffrey Moon

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TREASUREREva McDonald

The BibliocentreCentennial College

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COUNCILLORSharon MunroLeddy Library

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COUNCILLORSophie Bury

York University(416) 736-2100 Ext. 66951

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COUNCILLORCandice Dahl

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Copyright, effective January 5, 2004. Kristahas a BA (History) from the University of

Toronto and has been working in the RyersonBookstore for the past three years as the Co-ordinator of Custom Publishing. This experi-ence will be extremely valuable to the RyersonLibrary as we advance our e-Reserves capacity,begin investigations of digital image collectionsand monitor more closely the impact of copy-right legislation on the services we offer to ourusers.

University of TorontoSandra Langlands-Melvin, from the GersteinScience Information Centre, University ofToronto Libraries, was accepted to the week-long National Library of Medicine 2003Fellowship Program in Medical Informatics atthe Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole,Mass. The program is a prestigious one, whichaccepts 30 applicants, mostly from the US, ineach of the two sessions offered annually. It ranfrom Sat. 28 September to Sat. 4 October. Thefellowship covers travel, tuition, course materi-als, and room and board.

The Executive Director of the Health ScienceInformation Consortium of Toronto, LaurieScott, is the 2003/04 President of the CanadianHealth Libraries Association/Association desbibliothèques de la santé du Canada(CHLA/ABSC). She assumed office duringCHLA/ABSC's annual conference inEdmonton. Laurie also was elected this year toa two-year term as Director of the Biologicaland Life Sciences Division of the SpecialLibraries Association.

University of WindsorThe Leddy Library is pleased have Jason Yujoin us as our new Data Librarian. We also haverecently bid a fond farewell to our SocialSciences librarian Karen Bonasso (neeBaracat). Our loss has been the Windsor PublicLibrary's gain as she has taken a position thereas Supervisor of Adult Services.

PEOPLE NEWS

Associate University Librarian at U of W andLIS doctoral student at UWO, Cathy Maskellwas awarded a CLA Library Research andDevelopment Grant worth $1,000 to help sup-port her doctoral research. In January she willbe teaching Course #506: Management atUWO's FIMS.

Art Rhyno of the Leddy Library recently pub-lished a book through Libraries Unlimitedcalled Using Open Source Systems for DigitalLibraries.

In September, Leddy Library's TadVenkateswarlu was awarded a GovernorGeneral's Meritorious Service Medal for hiswork with the Educational Organization forOrphans and Handicapped Children, which hefounded to help needy children in India.

York UniversityBrent Roe has assumed the position ofAssociate University Librarian, InformationServices effective September 2003. This is oneof two positions that assist the UniversityLibrarian in the administration of YorkUniversity Libraries. Brent moves from theScott Library Reference Department where hecontributed to reference and information litera-cy activities, and served as the subject librarianfor history and classical studies.

Ilo-Katryn Maimets has been appointed as aScience Librarian in the Steacie Science Libraryeffective July 2003. Ilo graduated from theUniversity of Toronto in 2002 with a M.I.St.She also holds B.Sc., M.Sc., and B.Ed. degrees,all from York University.

Jennifer Dekker began a contractually limitedappointment as a Librarian at Frost Library,Glendon College, effective August 2003.Jennifer will also contribute directly to libraryactivities on the Keele Campus, working onprojects in the Scott Library ReferenceDepartment, Bibliographic Services, andArchives and Special Collections. n n n

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