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Staff Pick: Just Kids

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Just Kids by Patti Smith

Cover image of "Just Kids"

In her beautiful memoir Just Kids, poet, artist and punk rock godmother Patti Smith writes about her early years in New York City with her lover, best friend and lifelong source of inspiration, Robert Mapplethorpe. Theirs is a story of true love: for each other, for the streets around them and for the art that they created and inspired in each other. Smith’s poetic prose transforms the reader to iconic places such as the artist’s haven that was the Hotel Chelsea and Max’s Kansas City, a hangout of Andy Warhol and his gang.

If you like this, try:

Mapplethorpe : a biography / Patricia Morrisroe

Life / Keith Richards, with James Fox

Girls like us : Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon–and the journey of a generation / Sheila Weller

Student Learning Centre Design Wins Award

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The design for the new Student Learning Centre has won an award from Canadian Architect magazine! Of 211 submissions nationwide, the design was chosen as one of eight award winners.

Student Learning Centre

The article outlines all eight winners and provides an overview of the building’s layout.

The architects behind the design, Zeidler and Snøhetta, were honoured for their work. The building is expected to change the face of Yonge Street and will create more student space.

Construction is set to begin this semester, with a projected completion date of Winter 2014. For more information about the building and updates on the project, visit the Ryerson Builds website.

Staff Pick: The Hurt Locker

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Movie Poster for The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is an intense film about the dangerous work of an American bomb squad during wartime in the Middle East. A tense and action-packed film, The Hurt Locker is well-paced and well-written, providing a new way of looking at a long-standing conflict outside gun fare and politics. The characters particularly add a personal dimension to the story, amplifying the danger of their work.

The Hurt Locker is located on the 5th floor. Check for availability.

If you like this one, try:
Jarhead
Redacted
Embedded in Baghdad

Staff Pick: Bossypants

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New to the Collection: Bossypants

Bossypants book cover

In her autobiography, comedienne Tina Fey takes us through her life in an endless series of laugh-out-loud moments. In this hilarious look at the comedy industry from a female perspective, we watch Fey grow up, from the incident that caused the scar on her face all the way to the birth of her child. Of special note are the chapters about her father and her initial experiences working at Saturday Night Live.

If you like this one, try:

The Worst Date Ever
Look Back in Hunger
Love, Ellen

In addition, check out more titles in our Popular Reading Collection.

Staff Pick: Waiting for Superman

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New to the collection: Waiting for Superman

Waiting for Superman poster

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education “statistics” have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying “drop-out factories” and “academic sinkholes,” methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems. Written by Sundance Film Festival.

Waiting for Superman is currently on Reserve in the library.

If you like this, try:
The end of education
Theories of development II
Adult-child interaction: communicating to support learning

Dancing with the Devil: Gifts in Kind

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Toronto Metropolitan University Library & Archives is pleased to welcome Michael Moir (University Archivist and Head of the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at York University) on Friday, November 4 from 10:00-12:00 noon in LIB72 for a discussion entitled “Dancing with the Devil: Gifts-in-Kind, Monetary Appraisal, and Cultural Property.”

Abstract:
It’s valuable, it’s free and someone wants to give it to your institution. Sounds like a winning proposition, right? It may be, but as the Trojans discovered long ago, gifts can lead to unexpected consequences. Find out what you need to know about accepting gifts-in-kind to ensure a happy outcome for both donor and institution.

The event will begin at 10:00 with a meet and greet with light refreshments. The presentation will run from 10:30 until noon and will include time for Q&A. The presentation is open to all. We hope to see you there!

If you have questions about the event, please contact Joanna Beyersbergen at jbeyersb@ryerson.ca or (416) 979 5000 ext. 4982.

Celebrating Open Access Week in the Library

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October 24-28 is Open Access Week. The Open Access movement is impacting scholarly communication and post-secondary education in the digital age and the library will be hosting some events this week to promote awareness of open access.

Today, Tuesday October 25, from 12:00-1:30 p.m., take a study break and join us for a film screening on the fourth floor. We will be showing RIP: A Remix Manifesto, an award-winning documentary.

On Wednesday, October 26 from 1-3 p.m., join us in the Learning Commons on the second floor of the library for the Open House. We will highlight services provided there, which will include an Open Access Zone. Come by and learn more. Refreshments will be provided and you can enter a draw to win an iPad2!

Join Digital Initiatives Librarian Brian Cameron on Thursday, October 27 from 2-3 p.m. in LIB489B for a discussion entitled Author Rights in a Digital World. This session will examine copyright transfer agreements, author addenda, and discuss open access publishing and Creative Commons Licenses.

Open Access Week – RiP: A Remix Manifesto Screening

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Tuesday October 25th; 12:00-1:30 p.m. 4th floor of the Library

RiP is an open source documentary that challenges the concept of copyright. While it focuses on music it addresses wider issues such as copyleft, open source, Creative Commons licensing, and file sharing.

“In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.

The film features Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow.