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AI and Machine Learning

The OCUL AI and Machine Learning Program grows collective technology expertise through hands-on, collaborative experience.

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OCUL provides Ontario university libraries with shared services and technology infrastructure to support academic teaching, research and learning.

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OCUL negotiates and manages over 200 e-resource licenses to offer members the lowest possible cost, extending their budgets and saving library staff resources.

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Scholars Portal

Scholars Portal services provide access to an extensive and varied collection of e-journals, e-books, social science datasets, geo reference data and geospatial data.

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Collaborative Futures

Collaborative Futures is OCUL’s vision for an Ontario-wide print and electronic library collection accessed and managed through shared service and technology systems.

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Omni – the academic search tool

Through Omni, students, faculty and researchers can access over 25 million print resources and pick up requested items from any of the 19 partner universities in Ontario.

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Call for Applications: 2026 OCUL Visiting Researcher Program

The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) welcomes applications for the 2026 Visiting Researcher Program. This is an opportunity for library professionals from the OCUL membership to dedicate part of their research leave to a project that aligns with the consortium’s strategic priorities and/or academic library services or librarianship. 

Call for Nominations: New OCUL AI Advisory Committee

The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) is seeking member nominations for a new Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee. 

Explore AI Ethics and Librarianship with a New OCUL Reading Club

Dive deep into the ethical challenges of AI with the Ontario Council of University Libraries’ (OCUL) new reading club, Beyond the Algorithm.

Open to any academic library worker, this bimonthly professional development series is designed to help participants navigate the evolving role of AI in librarianship as it affects human rights, environmentalism and emotion.

Each installment of the reading club will explore topics across three steps:

New Survey Report Shows How Library Workers Use AI

A new report shows how Ontario library professionals are using AI tools in their day-to-day work and their perspectives on these burgeoning technologies.

This past May, the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) surveyed its membership to better understand how AI tools are being used and where there are opportunities to develop AI-related professional development programming. 

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