Bullying Awareness Week

November 15-19 is Bullying Awareness Week. Need some ideas for raising awareness in your classroom or with your colleagues?

The Brock Library has access to the Information Center on Cyber Bullying. This is a searchable information center on cyber bullying made accessible by Ebrary. Includes e-books, posters and a variety of other resources.

There are lots of books in the Library on Bullying in schools.

Some useful e-books:

Bullying prevention: creating a positive school climate and developing social competence [electronic resource]

Stop the bullying: a handbook for schools [electronic resource]

Shaping a culture of respect in our schools: promoting safe and healthy relationships (Ontario Ministry of Education) [electronic resource]

And check out some great websites about bullying in my Delicious links.

Get Organized with RefWorks!

Drop in on one of our RefWorks workshops to learn how to use this tool to organize and cite your research!

Find out more about RefWorks on the Library website.

Library Workshops for Faculty/Grad students on April 20

Curious about how to incorporate library resources into Sakai? Intrigued by eBooks? Discover library resources and services in the annual spring workshops for faculty and graduate students.

This year, we are offering the following workshops:

• Get Organized: Using Refworks to organize your research
• Demystifying copyright and patents: What you need to know and why
• Scholars Portal: An expanding suite of electronic resources
• The Latest Model: eBooks @ Brock
• Sakaibrary: Integrating Research Help and Resources in Sakai
• Stats Can 101: How to find and retrieve data from Statistics Canada

Workshops will be held on Tuesday, April 20 from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm in the Matheson Learning Commons. Coffee will be served. Please register at: http://www.library.brocku.ca/faculty_workshops/

Graduate students who attend will have these workshops recognised on their transcripts.

New e-reference resources

The Library has access to some new online reference titles:

Encyclopedia of giftedness, creativity, and talent [electronic resource]
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2009.

Sage encyclopedia of qualitative research methods [electronic resource]
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2008.

Encyclopedia of the social and cultural foundations of education [electronic resource]
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2009.





Encyclopedia of play in today's society [electronic resource]
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2009.

For more e-reference titles, check out some of the Library's e-book collections.

What are reference resources and why would I use them?

Reference sources are often the best place to start your research because they:

* provide a good introduction to a topic.
* provide brief, factual information.
* summarize and clarify issues.
* define unfamiliar terms.
* identify additional relevant sources such as books and periodical articles.

(from How to Find Reference Sources, Memorial University Libraries)

E-books platform comes to Brock Library

See this article in Brock News about the Library's newest e-book platform:

E-books platform comes to Brock Library