DATE & TIME:

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
7:30pm

LOCATION:

Toronto Metropolitan University
Library Building, Room LIB 72
350 Victoria Street, Toronto

COST:

$8.00 – register online or pay at the door

The Hollywood Librarian is the first full-length documentary film to focus on the work and lives of librarians. Using the entertaining and appealing context of feature movies, the film will have some surprises for people who may think they know what librarians do! American film contains hundreds of examples of librarians and libraries on screen — some positive, some negative, some laughable and some dead wrong. Films such as Sophie’s Choice, Philadelphia and It’s a Wonderful Life show librarians as negative stereotypes. The librarians in Lorenzo’s Oil, Desk Set and The Shawshank Redemption, on the other hand, are competent and professional. Dozens of interviews of real librarians will be interwoven with movie clips of cinematic librarians and serve as transitions between the themes of censorship, intellectual freedom, children and librarians, pay equity and funding issues, and the value of reading.You will meet the dedicated children’s librarian, the witty library director, the high-tech corporate librarian, the smart medical librarian, and the dedicated cataloger. You will see a prison literacy program, an elementary school library, a town faced with the most severe library crisis in decades, and much more!

See more descriptions and comments from sites that have screened the film at www.hollywoodlibrarian.com

Sponsored by the Toronto Metropolitan University Library and the Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA).

Come see Toronto Metropolitan University alumna and Commonweath Writers’ Prize – shortlisted author TISH COHEN reading from her acclaimed novel Town House.
Thursday April 10 – 7 pm
FREE
Toronto Metropolitan University Library
350 Victoria Street

Please RSVP by April 4 to Anna Tassone at 416-979-5141

In honour of Black History Month, the Library is hosting an exhibit entitled “Black History in Ontario”, from the McCurdy collection of the Ontario Black History Society. The exhibit is located on the main floor of the Library in the Information and Learning Commons, and will be on site from February 25 to 29.

If you have a personalized iGoogle or NetVibes home page, you can add a Ryerson Library catalogue search gadget to your page. Install your gadget using these easy instructions.

The Ryerson Library now provides access to over 12,000 ebooks from 2005-2008 via Springer e-books. The collection incorporates a wide variety of subject areas including: Architecture & Design, Behavioral Science, Biomedical and Life Science, Business & Economics, Chemistry and Material Science, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Science, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Math & Statistics, Medicine, Physics & Astronomy, and Professional Computing and Web Design.

Starting in the middle of December, the Library will be changing to a new method of authenticating off-campus users who want to use the Library’s electronic resources (articles, ebooks, journals, etc.)

The new system will allow users to access e-resources by entering their my.ryerson username and password instead of using the existing system of entering name, barcode and PIN number

New authentication screen:

Off-campus users who are already in Blackboard will not be required to re-authenticate when accessing Library resources.

You will still need your barcode and PIN for access to your Library record to renew books, check your holds and track your reading history.

Starting in mid-December, the Library will begin making the necessary changes to its web pages and catalogue to accommodate this new system. This will mean that for a short period of time you may encounter both methods of authentication. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

The current authentication system will continue to function until the summer of 2008 to allow faculty members sufficient time to update any links that they may have in Blackboard. Instructions for revising links are available on the Library website.

If you are off-campus, you can preview the new system by connecting to Canadian Newsstand.

If you have comments or concerns, please use the comments link below.

The Library now has 60 wireless-enabled laptops available for students to borrow. Laptops may be borrowed from the Circulation Desk for 4 hours. The first time you borrow a laptop, you will need to bring a completed copy of our Laptop Loan Agreement form to the Circulation Desk. More information can be found on our Laptop Loan pages.

Search the Ryerson Library from your Facebook account. The Ryerson Library has developed a Facebook application that allows you to search the Library catalogue and view Library web pages from within Facebook. To do this check the Ryerson U Facebook application instructions.

Two scanners (Microtek ScanMaker i900) are now available in the Library. They are located next to the printers in the Information Commons. Documents can be scanned using the Microtek ScanWizard Pro v7.0 software which is loaded on both PCs connected to the scanners.

Colour printing is now available in the Library’s Information Commons. To print in colour, select LIB272 Colour Laser from the list of available printers. Colour prints cost 50 cents a page.