In collaboration with Ryerson Aboriginal Student Services, the library is pleased to host the 3rd Annual Aboriginal Graduate Students Showcase! This will be a wonderful opportunity to see a selection of graduate and senior student projects and to talk with the students about their creative works. The Showcase will take place on Friday, March 30 from 10 a.m. until noon in LIB489B. Refreshments will be available.
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The Book and Periodical Council has declared February 26 – March 3 Freedom to Read Week! Each year, countless books and magazines are challenged on the basis of their content. This week is meant to bring awareness to these challenges and celebrate our freedom to read them, regardless of social opposition.
Check the list of challenged publications this year and see which of your favourites (old and new) were challenged and why!
The first data from the 2011 Census, covering the population and dwelling counts has been released and presents the population counts, counts for total private dwellings and counts for private dwellings occupied by usual residents. Coverage ranges from Canada, provinces and territories down to the dissemination block. Information is also available for land area, population density; population rank and percentage change from 2006. Data are available from the Census Canada website.
For more information, please contact librdata@ryerson.ca
Just Kids by Patti Smith
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
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.
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.
Did you know that 1.77 million real Christmas trees were exported from Canada in 2010? For more interesting facts about Christmas trees, check out Statistics Canada’s “By the numbers“
The Fall issue of Nexus is available on the web in PDF format.
Take a study break to browse through and let us know what you think!
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
New to the Collection: Bossypants
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.