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.
New to the collection: Waiting for Superman
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
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.