Guest Post — From an Accidental Title List to a Connected Supply Chain: My Years with KBART scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/10/16/g...

Guest Post — From an Accidental Title List to a Connected Supply Chain: My Years with KBART - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's guest post reflects on how implementation, multilingual discovery, and cross-industry collaboration turned a metadata file into a map of the scholarly information supply chain.

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The OG Megan LeForte 2023

Carney calls on world to invest in one of Canada’s 6 companies

Carney calls on world to invest in one of Canada’s 6 companies

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is continuing to beat the drum on international investment, calling on business leaders and countries from around the world to invest in one of Canada’s six compani...

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Reminder: The draft Accessibility Remediation Metadata (ARM) standard is now available for public comment! We invite members of the information community to share feedback through November 9. www.niso.org/standards-co... #Accessibility #metadata #ScholComm

"The true value of metrics emerges only when they are given context." Very true!

COUNTER metrics@countermetrics.bsky.social · 7d ago

At the @alpsp.bsky.social and @oaspa.bsky.social conferences in September, @tashamc.bsky.social said metrics must be handled with care. Here's why: www.countermetrics.org/handle-with-...

Autumn Woods Tom Thomson 1915

Scholars Portal Books hits 1 million! 🎉 Earlier this month, we surpassed 1 million titles on the Scholars Portal Books platform, an exciting milestone and complement to the over 75 million articles hosted on Scholars Portal Journals.

Welcome to the girl aquarium! 🏒 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OprO...

It's Coach's Corner with Donna Cherry and Rhonda MacLean! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

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I really do encourage everyone to read the full report. There's some really interesting stuff in there.

OCUL@ocul-libraries.bsky.social · 2w ago

Earlier this year, we held 18 focus groups across the Ontario academic library community to get a deeper understanding of what's changed in library workers' experiences and perspectives on AI and machine learning. So what did we learn?

Side of the Road Jack Bishop 2019

Today on my podcast Canadian History Ehx: The Canadian Caper! In 1979-80, Canadians, led by Ambassador Ken Taylor, hid six Americans and helped them escape Iran. This is the true story, not the Argo story. Listen on all podcast platforms or read 👇 canadaehx.com/2023/12/05/t...

He wants to be funny now… www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_6f...

Oh no, Mark Carney wants to be funny now! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

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Halloween is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than a spooky séance to see what Canada's 10th Prime Minister and his Irish Terriers have gotten up to in the afterlife? This and more essentials on The Beaverton Merch Store!

William Lyon Mackenzie King Memorial Séance Candle

Get the gang together, join hands and light a candle to see what Canada's 10th Prime Minister and his Irish Terriers have gotten up to in the afterlife. • Soy wax • Cotton wick • 3.76″ × 3.13″ (95 × 7...

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Canoe Portage Cornelius Krieghoff 1861

Canada is not actually 'battling for survival' in the context of secession, because in both Alberta and Quebec secession has relatively small amounts of public support. What we're battling is dipshit far-right populist politicians enabling/pushing for this destructive bullshit.

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 3w ago

Leaving Canada is effectively on the ballot in not one but two provinces: Alberta and Quebec. It can seem like Canada is battling for survival on multiple fronts, apparently out of nowhere. But there is more to the story. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Preserves Mary Pratt 1978

... It had literally never occurred to be to wonder what CTV stood for

Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 3w ago

On this day in 1961, CTV launched as Canada's first private TV network. The first program to air was a documentary about the new network. After CBC objected to the original name Canadian Television Network, it became known simply as CTV with no official expanded meaning.

The road to reconciliation begins with truth Mishiikenh Kwe ~ Anishinaabe c. 2022

âcimostâtowak (They Tell Stories to One Another) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2025

📖 Do you have a fascinating collection in your library that would benefit from digitization, or that would be a great fit for Canadiana? Apply to CRKN’s Member Digitization Projects initiative this fall! Applications are open until November 27. Learn more at our website: bit.ly/4x94zdR

Every year around OA Week I've started putting together what I'm calling the State of Scholarly Publishing report: This year's is now posted. elibtronic.github.io/2026_state_o... #openaccess #libraries #CdnPSE #CDNunis

Library and Archives Canada adds “Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)” to Canadian Subject Headings librarianship.ca/news/lac-lak... LAC last week announced the addition of a new Canadian Subject Heading (CSH) for Lake Ontario to replace the Library of Congress’ updated subject heading for the lake.

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This is great news! I think this will do a lot to grow the popularity of the league - it's super entertaining.

Devin Heroux@devinheroux.bsky.social · 3w ago

PWHL HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA Hockey Night in Canada is returning. But it’ll be Professional Women’s Hockey League games on Saturday nights. Details here: www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...

Spice of Life Megan LeForte 2023

Aujourd'hui, c'est le jour des Franco-ontariens et Franco-ontariennes en Ontario! Cette date a été choisie pour commémorer le premier déploiement du drapeau franco-ontarien en 1975. Apprenez-en davantage sur cette communauté importante et dynamique dans notre article : buff.ly/EEFqiJO

Francophones de l'Ontario (Franco-Ontariens)

L’Ontario abrite la plus grande communauté minoritaire de langue française au Canada, et la plus grande communauté francophone de toutes les provinces à l...

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Our draft Accessibility Remediation Metadata (ARM) standard is now available for public comment! The deadline for feedback is November 9. Thank you to our ARM Working Group members for their efforts to help make educational resources more accessible to all: www.niso.org/press-releas...

The September Scholars Portal Newsletter is here! Highlights from this edition include: 🔷Updates on GeoPortal, Scholaris, Ask, and Borealis 🔷New journals, books & Odesi datasets 🔷A Spotlight on Ask the Library 🔷Bug fixes & new features Catch up here: oculsp.ca/2jl0c

A little bit about reading, a lot about how in scholarship the process should be as important as the output. Unfortunately, we were already in a world where output was king way before the AI wave came along and exacerbated all these problems. (500 papers not worth reading!!)

The Scholarly Kitchen@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · 4w ago

AI and Scholarly Reading: Foxes versus Hedgehogs scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/09/23/a...

🪶 Archaeology, history, and Indigenous knowledge come together in this collaborative project with the Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Council and Pointe-à-Callière museum, exploring Indigenous communities’ longstanding relationships with the land.

Ahead of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, discover the ongoing Tiohtià:ke Project, documenting 6,000 years of Indigenous presence in Montreal and the St. Lawrence Valley. Collection by C. Gates-St-Pierre et al. (UdeM): borealisdata.ca/dataverse/Ti...