Dear Colleagues, As part of our innovative and dynamic approach to the Ontario Public Library Guidelines, I am delighted to announce the OPLG Council has approved the 2020 Edition document and supplementary resources at its recent April 2020 meeting. This new approach confirms and expands our commitment to providing the best, the most current and […]

Greetings from the Ontario Public Library Guidelines Monitoring and Accreditation Council; As part of our innovative and dynamic approach to the future of the Ontario Public Library Guidelines, I am delighted to announce that in early 2020, as approved by the OPLG Council, we will be issuing our first “Annual Update” of the Guidelines.  This […]

OPLG Council issued the following informational item to all Public Library CEO's in the province regarding the practice of adopting municipal policies in a public library context. This memo serves as a courtesy reminder to all Public Libraries based on information observed and gathered in the field by our co-audit teams over the past three […]

As per the amended bylaws of the Ontario Public Library Monitoring and Accreditation Council, Council is happy to announce a new member to the virtual council table: Caroline Goulding, Board Member of the Dryden Public Library who becomes the Ontario Library Board Associations inaugural representative to the OPLG Council. We would like to Thank the […]

The Ontario Public Library Monitoring and Accreditation Council would like to take a minute to introduce you to the concept of Virtual Audits. As a result of the current resources available to Council to conduct new audits or re-accredit current member libraries, creative and technologically infused methods have been trialed over the past six months […]