Grad students get new space in Library | The Brock News

New grad study space now open!

The new space features:

• 22 large study carrels
• two computer workstations
• 38 bookable lockers nearby for storage
• two lounge chairs
• bookable meeting/presentation/group space for up to 10 students

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Grad students get new space in Library | The Brock News

New changes made to Scholars Portal Search

New changes made to Scholars Portal Search

A cornerstone resource offered through the James A. Gibson Library will soon get a new look.

The current Scholars Portal Search interface Illumina will be replaced with a new one, ProQuest, that promises to deliver a better search experience.

The switchover will occur on Friday, July 29. Some users who have bookmarked a database or have saved searches via Illumina will then be required to update them.

This change will only affect the Scholars Portal Search interface and not the multitude of other Scholars Portal services currently available. This means that Scholars Portal eJournals and Scholars Portal eBooks will continue to provide an enormous selection of full-text resources to Brock users.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your liaison librarian, the Library’s help desk at 905-688-5550 x3233, or Live Help.

New books: Adult Education

Yikes! Over 2 months since my last blog post--that is not supposed to happen! The lack of activity on the blog certainly doesn't mean there isn't anything going on in the Library! A couple of new books on adult education:

Radicalizing learning: adult education for a just world by Stephen D. Brookfield and John D. Holst
Covers the traditional topics of adult education with a "radical" social justice agenda.
Check out Google Books for a preview or take it out from the Library.

Facilitating group learning : strategies for success with diverse adult learners by George Lakey
This book describes how to design effective learning experiences, and how to facilitate these learning experiences in a group environment.
Check out Google Books for a preview or take it out here.

Two new tools for improving research and getting published!

Introducing a couple of great new resources here at the Brock University Library:




SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Use SRMO to:

• find links to over 100,000 pages of SAGE’s book, journal and reference content
  
• explore methods concepts for designing research projects
• understand particular methods or identify a new method

Graduate students will love using the Methods Map, a visual search tool that helps researchers explore research methods terms, methodologies, and people in the field. Take a tour!








Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities is another new resource that I have wanted to get for a long time! This online directory replaces the print directories that you may have used a the Brock Library or at Hamilton Campus. This resource helps professors, graduate students, and researchers publish their manuscripts in academic journals by providing contact information for journals, as well as guidelines and submission information, type of review (blind or not), acceptance rates and more!

Contact me with any questions you may have about these great new tools. Interested in a workshop or tutorial? Would you like me to demo SAGE Research Methods in your research methods class? Just let me know!

Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies

We now have access to a wonderful online encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies. You can search this encyclopedia using keywords or browse the list of entries or subject index.

Chosen as an Outstanding Title by Choice Reviews Online, the Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies contains over 500 alphabetically arranged articles on topics ranging from Academic Freedom to teacher educator Laura Zirbes.

These are just some of the topics that have caught my eye:

Adult Education Curriculum
Early Childhood Curriculum
Learning Theories
Narrative Research
Service-Learning Curriculum

The encyclopedia also includes several biographical essays on such individuals as Nel Noddings, Paulo Freire and John Dewey.

Take a look. As with most of the Library's online resources, this one is available off-campus, too!

Renovations begin on graduate study room!

Did you know that the Library is creating a space just for graduate students? Renovations began in February on a dedicated study space for the exclusive use of graduate students. The enclosed, swipe card accessible study area on the 6th floor of the Gibson Library will include:

• 22 large study carrels with individual task lighting & comfortable seating
• 2 computer workstations
• 38 bookable lockers nearby for storage
• a bookable meeting/presentation/group study space.
  

Check out the Library website for more details.

New Resource: The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Library is pleased to announce online access to The Chronicle of Higher Education for Brock students, faculty, and staff. The Chronicle is the leading news, job, and information source for college and university faculty and administrators around the world. The Chronicle's website features the complete content of the latest issue, news and advice columns, thousands of current job listings, vibrant discussion forums, and more.

Search or browse to find great articles like Are Undergraduates Actually Learning Anything? and Faculty Views About Online Learning.

Explore the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://proxy.library.brocku.ca/login?url=http://chronicle.com.

Family Literacy Day

Today is Family Literacy Day, a day developed by ABC Life Literacy Canada to encourage families to make time to learn together by reading, playing games or enjoying some other learning activity. This year's theme is "Play for Literacy".

We have some great resources that focus on play-centered learning:

Oxford handbook of the development of play
10TH FLOOR OF LIBRARY BF 717 O94 2011

Encyclopedia of play in today's society [electronic resource]

Taking play seriously : children and play in early childhood education--an exciting challenge
8TH FLOOR OF LIBRARY LB 1139.35 P55 L55 2009

Play and learning in early childhood settings: international perspectives [electronic resource]

Play=learning: how play motivates and enhances children's cognitive and social-emotional growth [electronic resource]

For more books, try searching the Library catalogue using keywords like play, play and literacy, family literacy, etc.

For more information, see ABC Life Literacy Canada's Family Literacy Day page or the Play for Literacy page.

Copyright Information

Mystified by copyright? Me too! Yesterday I attended CTLET's copyright session. Together we went through University of Manitoba's Copyright Quiz and learned about some of the changes in copyright in Canada and what our responsibilities are. Take the quiz to learn more!

Check out the Library's new Copyright Information page, as well as the detailed FAQs.

Additional Resources:

Copying Right : A guide for Canada's universities to copyright, fair dealing and collective licensing.

Speak Out on Copyright (Michael Geist)