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 Vice President/President-Elect on the Ontario Library Association's (OLA) Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA), and is a Director on the OLA Board of Directors for the 2025 year.

Shelby has 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 13 years experience in academic libraries in roles pertaining to copyright and scholarly communications. 

In her spare time Shelby enjoys spending time outside with her dog, Homer.