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Need Research Help? Book an Appointment

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Need to sit down and talk to us about your research?  We’d love to help!  Book an appointment to get lengthier and more specialized research help tailored to your needs.

Appointments will generally be made between 9:00 a.m and 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.   In addition to our appointment service, there are many ways you can ask for research help – visit us in person, attend a workshop, or chat with us online!

Valentine’s Day…By The Numbers

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Thinking of buying your sweetheart a rose for Valentine’s Day?  You’re not alone.   According to Statistics Canada, 10.5 million stems of roses were produced in Canada in 2011.  For more interesting facts about Valentine’s Day, please visit Statistics Canada’s website.

For more information about data and statistics for research, please see the Library’s Map and Data Resources page:
http://www.ryerson.ca/madar/

Need Research Help? Book an Appointment

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Need to sit down and talk to us about your research?  We’d love to help!  Book an appointment to get lengthier and more specialized research help tailored to your needs.

Appointments will generally be made between 9:00 a.m and 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.   In addition to our appointment service, there are many ways you can ask for research help – visit us in person, attend a workshop, or chat with us online!

Award-Winning Dissertation available online

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Many of Ryerson’s theses and dissertations are available online through Digital Commons, our open access institutional repository containing Ryerson’s research output.   

The university recently presented the inaugural C. Ravi Ravindran Outstanding Doctoral Thesis award to Meera Paleja, from Ryerson’s psychology PhD program.  To learn more about this award, please see Ryerson Today. 

Meera’s doctoral dissertation, and many others from the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, are downloadable from Digital Commons.  Content is openly available to anyone on the web, and includes theses, dissertations, articles, technical reports, working papers, conference papers, etc., all produced by Ryerson authors.

Student Employee of the Year

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Congratulations to Mubarak Mohamed, who has worked at the Library as a Night Time Student Assistant and a Shelver from 2007-2012. Mubarak is the sixth 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.  Pictured here are Mubarak receiving the award from Chief Librarian Madeleine Lefebvre. Congratulations, Mubarak!

Student Employee of the Year 2012

 

Book Finder – Find Your Books…Fast!

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Do you struggle with finding books in the stacks?  Help is here!  The Library has developed a new web app called Book Finder, which maps books and other items in our catalogue system to their location in the Library.  This app has both desktop and mobile interfaces.

 

Try Book Finder now!

 

You can also access Book Finder from our catalogue!

A sample record in our catalogue can be viewed here. Just look for this:Find on shelf button

Alternatively, visit our mobile site

If you need help understanding call numbers, please visit the following webpage, or watch this video.

Book Finder will tell you on which floor the item is located, the corresponding shelf number, e.g. A-18, and the item’s specific call number.  The shelf number will direct you to the specific shelf where your book is kept – look for this information on the sides of the shelving.  You will still need the call number to find the book on the shelves.

 

The Copyright Modernization Act is now in Force

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Bill C-11 (The Copyright Modernization Act) Update

Many sections of Bill C-11 (The Copyright Modernization Act) including fair dealing exceptions for education and other educational and library specific provisions are now in force as of Nov. 7th, 2012. Toronto Metropolitan University is currently working on a new fair dealing policy, and our copyright pages wil be soon updated to reflect all the changes.

Highlights:

  • Fair dealing for the purpose of education, and parody and satire are now exceptions
  • Public performance rights are no longer needed to show a movie or video in a classroom setting
  • Material from the internet that does not have clearly posted warnings against  reuse can be reused in course materials

Open Access Week @ Ryerson

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The Library is facilitating several events during Open Access Week @ Ryerson – October 22 – 26.  We encourage faculty and graduate students to attend and learn more about how open access can benefit your teaching and research.
 
If you are not able to attend these events in person, please consider viewing the free webinars on open access scheduled throughout the week at Athabasca University and Harvard University.
 
Preempting Dissent – Open Sourcing Secrecy
Monday Oct 22nd 10:00am-12:00pm
ROOM: RCC-361
 
Key Note Speaker: Greg Elmer
 
Greg Elmer will present on his and Andy Opel’s project “Preempting Dissent – Open Sourcing Secrecy”, a collaborative open source documentary based on their book by the same name. By publishing a “road map” of production, this project engages the audience through all stages of the project, and will create both a feature length documentary and enable a non-linear open source cinematic database that will evolve over time. The film will combine on and off line video submissions, personal testimonials, re-edited sequences, along with the filmmakers content on preemptive forms of law enforcement and governance that have emerged in the post 9/11 world. This open source content will be available for users to remix their own documentaries. This project is funded in part by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Department of Communication, Florida State University, Anglia Ruskin University, and the Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Toronto Metropolitan University.
 
Other presenters:
Kevin Manuel – Open Data in Canada
Jay Wolofsky: OpenDOAR: searching repository contents worldwide.
Brian Cameron: Open Access Publishing @ Ryerson
Ann Ludbrook: Open Access Resources for Education
 
 
Know Your Rights: Publishing and Academic Freedom in a Digital World
Friday, October 26 12-2 p.m. in OVPRI board room (1 Dundas Street, YDI-1134)
 
Presenter: Brian Cameron, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Toronto Metropolitan University Library and Archives
 
Please RSVP to bcameron@ryerson.ca by October 24th, as space is limited.
 
Have you recently published in a journal? Do you know your rights as an author? Join us for a presentation and discussion focusing on how you can protect your author rights and reuse, republish and redistribute your work. Learn about how to protect your intellectual property through addenda to copyright transfer agreements and avoid the pitfalls associated with impact factors. We will also discuss the value of open access publishing and Digital Commons @ Ryerson, our institutional repository.
 
Lunch will be served at 12 p.m., with the talk starting at 12:45.
 
Free Webinars during Open Access Week
 
A week-long series of free, 1 hour webinars on the issues around using open access resources in teaching, hosted by Athabasca University.
 
The full calendar of events is listed here  
 
Highlights include:
 
Open Educational Resources (OER) and Mobile Learning
The OER university: A sustainable model for more affordable education futures
“Open and Closed” Getting the mix right. Who gets to Decide??
Integrating openness in course design
 
How to Make Your Research Open Access (Whether You’re at Harvard or Not)
 
How do you make your own work open access (OA)? The question comes up from researchers at schools with good OA policies (like Harvard and MIT) and at schools with no OA policies at all. Peter Suber and Stuart Shieber of the Harvard Open Access Project, the Berkman Center community, and Office for Scholarly Communication will facilitate an open forum on the Harvard OA policies, concrete steps for making your work OA, and questions on any aspect of OA, especially from the perspective of publishing researchers.
 
Tuesday, October 23
12:30 Eastern Standard time
Live Broadcast (This event will be archived for later viewing)