The NRC’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information Discover is a new service for finding articles. Discover puts millions of peer-reviewed scientific, technical, medical and some business journal articles at your fingertips. Discover also offers clients the ability to create alerts. CISTI Source will no longer be available after August 31.

Searching Discover is free but you will incur credit card charges if you order items directly from Discover. Toronto Metropolitan University Library does not pay these direct credit card charges. To avoid these credit card charges, search for free on Discover and then, from your search results, request items Ryerson does not own by using RACER, our interlibrary loan service. RACER is available to Ryerson students, faculty and staff with a valid library account.

More information about Discover is available from the NRC-CISTI Discover website.

Looking for some light summer reading? Check out the Popular Reading Collection of fiction, mysteries, sci-fi, romance and more. The collection is located on the main floor of the Library behind the LCD flat screen display panel.

During the annual Appreciation Party for Part-time Staff held at the Library on May 1^st, 2009, Chief Librarian Madeleine Lefebvre presented the Student Employee of the Year Award 2008/2009 to Dheeraj Vipparty. Dheeraj, who has worked at the Library as a Night Time Student Assistant since fall 2007, is the third recipient of this annual award. The award was created last year to recognize students who distinguish themselves through excellence during their employment at the Library. The winner receives an award certificate and a prize in the form of a $100 gift certificate. Congratulations, Dheeraj!

On Thursday April 16, Library staff members celebrated their completion of the Library’s Learning 2.0 program with a graduation ceremony. The Learning 2.0 program consisted of 13 weeks of hands-on activities highlighting Web 2.0 tools and their impact on libraries.

More information about the Library’s Learning 2.0 project is available on the program’s blog and in the online version of Toronto Metropolitan University Forum . Any Ryerson community member is welcome to work through the program or check out the links to participants’ blogs on the RULA Learning 2.0 Activities blog.

The Library is pleased to welcome Margaret MacMillan back to Ryerson for The Writer’s Journey: Margaret MacMillan in Conversation on Tuesday, March 24^th from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.

For more information and how to register, please check the Ryerson Library’s Writers Read blog.

SciFinder, the premier chemistry research database, is now available to Ryerson staff, students and faculty on the web. To use this version of SciFinder, you will need to set up a free individual account. More information about account set up and access is available on the SciFinder Scholar description page.

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“RU Ryerson?” is a contest that encourages students to create a short video that showcases what Ryerson is all about. The contest is open to all current Toronto Metropolitan University students from all faculties and programs. For more information check out the RURYERSON website.

On Tuesday, January 20th, please visit the 4th floor of the Library to watch live television coverage of the inauguration of Barack Obama, beginning at 10 a.m.

The random draw winner of the holiday photo contest held by Special Collections is Daniella Guida for her photo shown here. To see more photos from this contest, check the Special Collections Holiday Photo Contest blog.