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)