Congratulations to Brittany Ryan, the Library’s 2013 Student Employee of the Year! The below picture shows Brittany receiving the award from Chief Librarian, Madeleine Lefebvre. Brittany has been employed at the Library as a Night Time Student Assistant since September 2011. She is the seventh recipient of this award, which distinguishes student employees who have excelled and made a positive impact during their employment at the Toronto Metropolitan University Library & Archives. Congratulations, Brittany!
The first results of the voluntary 2011 National Household Survey (formerly the long-form census), were released on May 8, 2013. Topics in this release include Aboriginal Peoples, immigration, ethnic origin, non-official languages, and religion. For information on response rates to the NHS, click here.
The Library has continued with its program to recognize the contributions of graduating student library assistants who worked at the Library while pursuing their degrees. All student assistants from the Class of 2013 were invited to recommend one media item be added to the Library collection, with a mention of the contributors in the catalogue, as well as in each of the chosen items themselves.
To see what items they have chosen for the Library, please take a look at the display case near the Research Help Desk on the main floor. Thank you to the Class of 2013 – we wish you all the best!
The Canadian Library Association (CLA) has awarded Ryerson Library with the 2013 CLA/OCLC Award for Innovation Technology for the RULA Book Finder application. The award is given in recognition of the ground breaking and innovative use of technology to provide exceptional library service to members of the community. The Book Finder application helps Ryerson students, faculty and staff more easily find library materials in the stacks while searching the Library catalogue. More information about Book Finder is available on the Library website.
For more information on the CLA/OCLC Award for Innovation Technology, please view the press release.
Missed last night’s lecture by Dr. Joe MacInnis on Deep Leadership? The postscript is available online, and includes some highlights from his presentation. Thanks to everyone who participated in the event!
The university will be participating in the annual Earth Hour activities this year. It will happen between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013.
Campus Facilities & Sustainability Department will turn off all non-essential lighting in and around our buildings for one hour, and turn them back on again. This should not effect any classrooms.
Physician-scientist, author, deep-sea explorer and Ryerson Library’s first distinguished visiting professor, Joe MacInnis, presents ‘Deep Leadership: James Cameron’s seven-mile dive into the Mariana Trench’ on Wednesday, April 3 at 6:30 p.m. in TRS-1-067. In this visual presentation, Dr. MacInnis chronicles the forces of nature, technical breakdowns and severe stresses that plagued this risky mission – as well as the leadership principles that led to its success.
All are welcome at the 4th annual Ryerson Aboriginal Student Showcase on Wednesday, March 20th from 10-12p.m. in LIB-489. The showcase features presentations by Aboriginal students from various program areas. Light refreshments will be provided. Please register online. The invitation is viewable here.
Did you know that 61% of university graduates in 2006 were women? In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8th, please take a look at some interesting statistics about women in Canada.
For more information on data about women or related topics, please contact librdata@ryerson.ca
To see events at Ryerson relating to International Women’s Day, please visit the following site.
Joe MacInnis, physician-scientist, author, and deep-sea explorer whose expeditions to the Titanic wreck helped inspire James Cameron’s Academy Award-winning film, has been appointed the first distinguished visiting professor at the Toronto Metropolitan University Library and Archives. His appointment, effective to the end of December 2013, is co-sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, and the Faculty of Science. For more information, please see the story in Ryerson Today.
Dr. MacInnis has an ongoing connection to the Library through the MacInnis Audio Visual Collection, donated to the Library’s Special Collections. This collection consists of audio, video and film recordings made by Dr. MacInnis and his team during his underwater dives from the 1970s to 2004. The bulk of the collection concerns the shipwrecks of the Titanic, the Breadalbane and the Edmund Fitzgerald.
In his role as distinguished visiting professor, Dr. MacInnis will deliver a public lecture on April 3 about the Cameron-National Geographic seven-mile science dive into the Mariana Trench.
