The next results from the voluntary 2011 National Household Survey (formerly the long-form census) were released on June 26, 2013. Topics in this release include education, labour, mobility and migration. For information on response rates to the NHS, click here.
RACER Interlibrary Loan service turns 10!
Wow! The RACER Interlibrary Loan service is now 10 years old! Ryerson was one of the first schools to go live with the service in 2003. Since then, 74 libraries in 20 institutions across the province have handled 2.3 million borrowing and 2.8 million lending requests via RACER, representing an average of half a million requests per year!
Thank you to all who have contributed to the service over the past 10 years.
By the numbers…Father’s Day
Did you know that 29% of fathers took parental leave in 2011? To mark Father’s Day on June 16th, please take a look at some interesting statistics about dads in Canada.
For more information about data and statistics resources, contact librdata@ryerson.ca or check out the Library’s data pages.
2013 Student Employee of the Year
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!
2011 National Household Survey results available
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.
Recognition of Graduating Student Library Assistants – Class of 2013
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!
Library wins CLA Award for Innovative Technology
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.
#intothedeep – MacInnis Lecture Postscript
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!
Earth Hour
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.
More information is available here.
Joe MacInnis Lectures on Deep Leadership
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.
Admission is free and open to the public – please register at: marianatrenchdive.eventbrite.ca
Copies of Dr. MacInnis’ latest book, Deep Leadership, will be on sale after the lecture.