Shelby Thaysen

Shelby Thaysen (she/her) is currently the Scholarly Publishing Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office in Toronto, ON. 

In this role, she is the service manager for TSpace, the University of Toronto's institutional repository, and Journal Production Services (JPS), the university’s open access journal publishing service hosted on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. 

Shelby is passionate about assisting researchers with their publishing, teaching, and research needs through her expertise related to copyright, open access, and information.

In addition, Shelby is a Sessional Instructor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information, iSchool.

Shelby currently serves as President of the Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA) council, representing the academic sector of the Ontario Library Association's (OLA).

Shelby holds a Master of Information from the University of Toronto iSchool with concentrations in Library and Information Science (LIS) and Knowledge Management and Information Management (KMIM). She has 14 years experience in academic libraries in roles pertaining to copyright and scholarly communications.