Gisella Scalese Completes Two-Year Term as OTELA Co-President

Gisella Scalese, Education Librarian, recently completed a two-year term as Co-President of the Ontario Teacher Education Library Association (OTELA). OTELA supports academic libraries in Ontario universities that offer both undergraduate and graduate education programs. OTELA members meet in person once yearly, and share information in virtual meetings held throughout the year.

"OTELA and its membership has been integral to my work as an Education Librarian at Lakehead University," Gisella says. "OTELA has fostered a community of librarians that are excited to share information with each other about teaching resources, collection building strategies, and ideas for connecting our students with these resources. During my term, we held an information-sharing meeting on systematic and scoping reviews for Education. I have held executive positions of Secretary and President in previous years and was honoured to be elected as Co-President from May 2021 to May 2023. I shared this role with Chelsie Lalonde at Ontario Tech University." 

The OTELA annual meeting is hosted at a different university campus each year. Lakehead University Library, on the Thunder Bay campus, hosted the OTELA meeting in 2019, and the Library is pleased to be hosting the upcoming 2024 meeting on the Orillia campus. The meeting will be organized by Chris Tomasini, Orillia Campus Librarian, and the new incoming OTELA Executive.