Oshawa Camera Club
Educational Resources Page
Last Update: April 21, 2009

The following pages have been assembled by the OCC Education committee to provide sources of 
print and web based information for its members.  

1. OCC EDUCATIONAL LINKS ON THE WEB

The OCC Education Committee web-information page provides a selection of links to photography 
tutorials and sites with significant informational articles using a web service called "Netvibes".
*(Netvibes is a free personalized homepage which allows you to add 200+ modules like RSS feeds, 
Internet links, Flikr photos and widgets such as weather, email, etc.)  We are using the public 
page which allows for anyone to view, but not to add or change content. It is a simple task to 
create your own personal page and import content from the OSS page to your own if you wish.  
If you are interested in doing this, take a look at the Netvibes website and take a tour.  

One objective of the OCC Education portfolio is to promote educational resources in many formats.  
The OCC Executive Committee considered the possibility of owning a library of resource materials 
to lend freely to its members.  After some discussion it was concluded that this approach is 
neither feasible nor practical for many reasons.  However, an on-line library page offers members 
a platform for sharing personal resources, making recommendations about photography books and to 
show what may be available to members through their local library.  LibraryThing is a free 
on-line library organizer that would accomplish this task.

How it works:
 OCC members who have collections of photography related materials are able to join the 
 LibraryThing website and make their collections available virtually to the other members 
 of the club.  A list is provided at the bottom of this page of member's collections that 
 are already in place.  The Oshawa Camera Club Recommendations page is comprised of materials a
 vailable from Public Libraries in Ontario.  If you would like to list your collection go to 
 the LibraryThing website and set up a free membership.  Once you have a collection listed 
 in this resource, please contact Maureen McVarish at mmcvarish@aei.ca with the URL that 
 is provided by this site so it can be added to the list. 

Acquiring materials:  If you see a title that you would like to read, you can either purchase 
it at  your local bookstore, or online from Chapters or Amazon, or you can borrow it freely 
from your local library.    

Your Public Library:   You are entitled to a free membership at the Public Library system in 
the municipality where you live, work, or attend school.   First check the catalogue of your 
local library to see if they have the item you wish to borrow in stock.  This page provides 
the catalogues of the libraries from the Durham Region.  An individual Public Library cannot 
possibly own every title, but they provide a service called Interlibrary Loan.  This service 
can borrow materials freely from most public libraries in the province and have it delivered 
to your local library.  If you want your library to borrow a title for you through Interlibrary 
loan, provide as much information about the title as possible.  You may do this in person or 
by telephone.  Some  libraries will accept online requests, check out their website.  

OCC Members' LibraryThing Pages
The following library collections are for your information: 

         Carol Magee

         Des McKee

         Maureen McVarish

         Valerie Slagter
         
         Peter Tomblin
    

OCC Recommended Reads:  Library Thing



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