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Library Welcomes Joe MacInnis, Distinguished Visiting Professor

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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.

Joe MacInnis

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

 

Hint for the new Oxford Reference and Springer Platforms

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In the past few months, both the Oxford Reference and Springer Journals and ebooks platforms have changed to new websites. The interfaces are very different that previous versions. Most importantly is that by default, they both return search result sets including material we do not have access to.

Please make sure to select the options on the left hand side to filter to library available items:

On Springer, un-select the option “Include Preview-Only content”.
On Oxford Reference, select the option “Show full text results only” under availability.

Please contact the reference desk if you have any further questions about how to use these two new websites.

Book Finder – Find Your Books…Fast!

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Book Finder logo

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