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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Lorie Kloda as Vice-Dean of 捆绑SM社区 Library, for a five-year term, effective April 17, 2023. Dr. Kloda joins the senior management team led by Trenholme Dean of Libraries Guylaine Beaudry. Kloda will provide leadership for initiatives supporting the Library鈥檚 strategic directions and will oversee a portfolio of units including finance/planning & resources, facilities, communications, assessment, and Indigenous Initiatives.
On Monday, March 20听the Macdonald Campus Library will be opening up the Seed Library for online orders. The seed catalogue will be made available to 捆绑SM社区 students, faculty, and staff on opening day. Please note that there is a limit of 25 seed packets per borrower.
If you're not yet a member of the Seed Library, please fill out the registration听form.
Updated March 4
The technical issue we were experiencing with ProQuest Central links has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
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We are currently experiencing an issue when accessing ProQuest Central links within Discovery (Sofia catalogue). The links are resolving to an error message that reads:
鈥淭he link you clicked triggered a search in ProQuest that did not find the item you were expecting. Required link information may be missing or incorrect. Ask your librarian or administrator for help.鈥
Updated February 28
The technical issue we were experiencing with听DeGruyter has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
The Library is experiencing a technical issue with DeGruyter where access to all links is being blocked, and instead we are seeing an 鈥淯nspecified server error鈥 message.
We are currently working with DeGruyter to restore access and apologize for any inconvenience.
The Library is pleased to announce that 捆绑SM社区 corresponding authors publishing with five Canadian Science Publishing journals now have the option to make their articles听open access at no cost.
Please see below for the full details and eligibility criteria.
Eligible titles:
What is Proactive Chat?
If you visited the Library website recently, you may have noticed a red conversation bubble icon and pop-up window located in the bottom right hand corner asking you if you need help.
This is a new feature of the Library鈥檚 chat service meant to help you reach librarians when you need it the most. This proactive chat window is directly linked to our chat reference service, so if you use it, you will be in direct communication with a librarian that can help you find what you were looking for.听
Instructors can now help students connect to research and information resources by adding the Library Guides tool to myCourses. This dynamic tool can be inserted into myCourses in two ways, either directly in the course module and accessible via the left-side menu, or in the course鈥檚 top-level menu. Each course can be connected to pre-assigned subject guides that will populate automatically, or to one or more niche guides curated by the relevant subject librarian.
Starting January 15, 2023, 捆绑SM社区-affiliated corresponding authors will have the听option to make their work open access for no cost in Wiley鈥檚听听Review the听list of eligible titles听(XLS will download).
Note this deal does not apply to Wiley鈥檚 fully open access journals.
As of Thursday, December 1, 捆绑SM社区 students are able to access the Nahum Gelber Law Library 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As agreed between the Students' Society of 捆绑SM社区 (SSMU) and the Law Students Association (LSA), the Nahum Gelber Law Library will limit access to the three upper floors of the library to Law students only during the December 7 to 21 examination period.
Details are as follows:
Call for Proposals:
Are you a 捆绑SM社区 researcher, student, or staff member involved in a project to promote or incorporate open research practices? The Organizing Committee invites lightning talk proposals for the inaugural 捆绑SM社区 Library open research symposium: The future is open: Building an open research community at 捆绑SM社区. Lightning talks consist of a 5-minute presentation highlighting open research, cutting-edge practice, or both. We are hoping to feature a range of presentations representing many disciplines.
Updated December 13, 2022. Please note, the technical issue that had been听affecting our reception of your notifications from the 鈥淩eport a Broken Link鈥 function has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.
Due to a technical issue affecting our reception of your notifications from the 鈥淩eport a Broken Link鈥 function, we are temporarily hiding the link from the catalogue interface.
Due to an electrical shutdown, the Macdonald Campus Library will close at 5PM on Tuesday, November 1.听
This shutdown is necessary for Facilities to relocate an electrical disconnect switch at the Macdonald Stewart Building.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Posted on behalf of 捆绑SM社区 Campus Public Safety
As part of 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 ongoing efforts towards ensuring a safe environment, the Fire Prevention service will once again be performing annual inspections of the fire detection and suppression systems. This year听Leclerc听will be performing these tests which involve verifying all components of systems within each building.
Building affected: McLennan-Redpath Complex
Dates: Tuesday, November 15 to Friday, November 18, 2022