The Toronto Metropolitan University Library and Archives (RULA) is organising a university-wide Book Fair, an event which will celebrate the achievements of Ryerson’s creators and innovators. Ryerson faculty who have scholarly, scientific, professional or creative/artistic works published in 2008 or 2009 are invited to submit their information to the Toronto Metropolitan University Book Fair Planning Committee. Eligible publications include books, book chapters, edited books and dedicated journal issues.

The Book Fair is scheduled to take place on Thursday November 12, 2009 in the Library. Please fill out the online submission form.

Please note that the latest date to submit information is October 15, 2009.

Couldn’t make it to one of our scheduled tours? Or maybe you just prefer checking things out on your own?

Then download our podcast tour of the main floor of the Library, designed to help get you ready for September.

To download to your iPod or other mobile device, right click on Library tour (mp3)

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.

Planning a road trip? Looking for something to listen to at home or at work? The Library has 165 audiobooks of fiction and non-fiction titles that are available for 2-week loans. The audiobooks are located on the 5th floor of the Library near the Audio-Visual collection.

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!

The Library is pleased to host a digital exhibit of photos and images from students in POL 501 – Women, Politics and Power, taught by Jacquie Chic. The images were created as part of a class assignment and visualize issues relating to gender, politics and power. The powerpoint presentation was also created by students in the class.

The images will be viewable on the LCD panel in the Library lobby until the end of May.

The latest issue of NEXUS, the Library newsletter, is available both online and in print. This is a yearly publication which highlights what’s new in the Library. If you would like a copy, please visit the Reference Desk. Please note that the online version is ‘live’ – click on any of the underlined e-resources, or any URLs listed, and you can connect to them from within the document. If you’re off-campus, you’ll be asked to log in with your my.ryerson account when trying to access an e-resource.

Highlights include the planning process for the Student Learning Centre, the recent donation of Canadian Architect, and a sampling of new e-resources, including the large acquisition of Social Science and Humanities content through CRKN.

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.