by FOPLED | Aug 15, 2020 | FOPL News
Keep Yourself and Others Protected with Out Of Print Face Masks As libraries are entering Phase 3 and beginning to reopen across the province, the safety of all library employees and patrons must remain top of mind. Ontario Library Association’s official store, The...
by FOPLED | Aug 15, 2020 | FOPL News
Ontario Public Library Week: October 18 – 24, 2020 October is Canadian Library Month! During this month, libraries and library partners across Canada raise awareness of the valuable role libraries play in Canadians’ lives. The first week of October...
by FOPLED | Aug 15, 2020 | FOPL News
Just released! Survey results of Ontario Public Library Response to COVID-19 While public libraries across Ontario were ordered to close to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 in March, OLA’s Ontario Public Library Response to COVID-19 survey shows that libraries...
by FOPLED | Aug 15, 2020 | FOPL News
Barriers to Social Services Fuel Racial Inequity (Contributed) With a few changes to existing systems, human-centered technology can help counter the racial bias embedded in the social safety net by creating more opportunity for people of color to access services...
by FOPLED | Aug 15, 2020 | FOPL News
How risky is it to spend time in a classroom? Ride the bus? This mathematical model helps estimate the riskiness of different activities based on one potential route of coronavirus spread: itty-bitty particles known as aerosols. MEASURE YOUR RISK “Measure the...
by FOPLED | Aug 14, 2020 | FOPL News
School outbreaks of COVID-19 will happen. Here’s what teachers and parents can do to keep them in check Distancing and number of people inside are key considerations as teachers and students head inside this fall...