OLA Information Briefs
OLA has partnered with various organizations to create current information briefs that can be used by library supporters and advocates.
Each brief contains contextual information that is intended to enlighten a public audience on the issues libraries currently face. Use the following information briefs when speaking to government officials, community members, media or to advocate for your library.
If you have questions, comments or additions, please contact the OLA Communications department
All Libraries
- Indigenous Matters (Updated 2020)
- E-resources (Updated 2019)
First Nation Public Libraries
- First Nation Public Libraries Fact Sheet (Updated 2016)
Public Libraries
- Building Public Library Access for Farm Worker Community Members (Updated 2021)
- Newcomers to Canada and Public Libraries (Updated 2018)
- Opioids, Naloxone and your local Public Libraries (Updated 2018)
- Public Libraries and the Self Service Model (Updated 2017)
- Equitable Access for People who Have a Print Disability (Updated 2016)
- Rural Public Libraries Brief (Updated 2014)
School Libraries
- School Library Funding In Ontario (Updated 2021)
- About School Libraries – OSLA Information Sheet (Updated 2014) About School Libraries: This information sheet describes the school library as learning commons, how the school library program and the teacher-librarian can be leveraged, barriers to optimizing the school library, and what can be done to overcome these barriers.
- De-Valuation of Teacher Librarians – OSLA Information Brief (Updated 2013)
- Facts about the impact and decline of school libraries – OSLA Information Brief (2014)
University/College Libraries
- Active Learning (Updated 2015)
- ACRL Framework (Updated 2015)
- Demand Driven Acquisition (Updated 2014)
- Digital Humanities (Updated 2015)
- E-books (Updated 2013)
- Impact Metrics (Updated 2015)
- Instructional Design (Updated 2015)
- Learning Objects (Updated 2015)
- Open Journal Systems (Updated 2013)
- Project Management (Updated 2015)
- Quality Assurance (Updated 2015)
- Researcher Identifiers (Updated 2017)
- Social Media (Updated 2013)
- The Big Deal (Updated 2014)
- Web-scale Discovery (Updated 2014)
