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)

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.