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Extended Hours for Exams (Night Owls, Early Birds, and more)

alarm-clock-art-background-1037993Exam season is almost upon us, and that means we’ll be offering extended hours at most of our locations, starting as early as this weekend.

Here’s a guide to extended hours by location to help you keep track of it all:

Location Extended hours
Sir James Dunn Law Library

 

 Starting April 4, the library will stay open until midnight on Thursdays and Fridays and open at 9 a.m. on Saturdays.

 
Kellogg Library Learning Commons (CHEB)

 

 Starting March 17, the learning commons will stay open till 3 a.m. A valid DalCard is required to take part in Night Owls (Sun–Thu, midnight–3 a.m.).

 
Killam Memorial Library

 

 

 Starting March 24, the first floor of the library will remain open till 3 a.m. and starting March 30, the library will open at 8 a.m. on Saturday and Sundays. A valid DalCard is required to take part in Night Owls (Sun–Thu, midnight–3 a.m.).

 
MacRae Library

 

 

 Starting March 17, the Student Learning Commons will remain open till 3 a.m. and the library will open at 10 a.m. on Saturday mornings. A valid DalCard is required to take part in Night Owls (Sun–Thu, midnight–3 a.m.).

 
Sexton Design & Technology Library Starting April 5, the library will stay open until midnight on Friday and Saturday nights.

 

 

Night Owls Starts This Weekend!

night owls early birds digital assetStarting on March 17, the Kellogg Library Learning Commons in the CHEB and the Student Learning Commons in the MacRae Library will stay open till 3 a.m., Sundays through Thursdays.

Starting March 24, the first floor of the Killam Library will stay open till 3 a.m., Sundays through Thursdays.

Prefer mornings? Starting March 23, the MacRae Library will open at 10 a.m. on Saturdays. The Killam Library will open at 8 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings starting March 30.

Are you a night owl or an early bird? Either way, good luck with your studies!

Night Owls is for Dalhousie and King’s students. A valid DalCard is required. 

 

 

Night Owls is coming to the Agricultural Campus!

We’re so pleased to announce that Night Owls is coming to the MacRae Library this exam season starting March 17. Sundays through Thursdays, students can stay in the Student Learning Commons, located on the top floor of the MacRae Library, until 3 a.m. During Night Owls, two commissionaires will be on site, the café will be accessible and you can do black and white printing from your laptop.*

Also starting that same week are our Early Bird hours on Saturday mornings. We’ll open at 10 a.m. for two extra hours of morning library time in the weeks leading up to exams.
Night Owls is for Dalhousie students. A valid DalCard is required. 

night owls early birds digital asset

*To print from your laptop:

  • First, make sure you have money on your DalCard. Add money here: https://dalcard.dal.ca/dalcardonline/Account/LogOn
  • Log in here and select Web Print from the menu on the left
  • Click the green “submit a job” button and select kil-prt-4\DalAC-MacRae-UpperLevel (DAL – Truro Campus – MacRae Library – Upper Level). There are many printers listed, advance to page three to find this printer.
  • Then click the green “print options and account selection” button at the bottom of the page
  • Enter the number of copies you want (it defaults to 1)
  • Click the green “upload documents” button and upload your documents
  • Collect your prints

Afrofuturism: a panel discussion

 

afrofuturism image for blogJoin us for this panel discussion on Afrofuturism with Dr. Asha Jeffers of King’s and Dr. Isaac Saney of Dalhousie. Kewoba Carter of Dal’s International Centre will moderate.

This is event is presented by the Dalhousie Libraries in support of this year’s Dal Reads book, Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson. Set in the near future in a dystopic Toronto, Brown Girl in the Ring contains themes of folklore, feminism, and magic realism steeped in Afro-Caribbean culture.

Monday, March 18, 7 p.m. title announcement 2018 19
Rowe Building, Room 3089, 6100 University Ave.

This is event is presented by the Dalhousie Libraries in support of this year’s Dal Reads book, Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson. Set in the near future in a dystopic Toronto, Brown Girl in the Ring contains themes of folklore, feminism, and magic realism steeped in Afro-Caribbean culture.

About the panelists and moderator:

Dr. Asha Jeffers:
Dr. Jeffers is a Faculty Fellow at University of King’s College. She has a PhD in English literature from York University. Her research focused on literature about the children of immigrants — the second generation — across national and ethnic lines. She’s particularly
interested in myths of the past and myths of the future.

Dr. Isaac Saney:
Dr. Saney is Director of Dalhousie’s Transition Year Program, established to redress educational barriers and injustices facing the Mi’kmaq Nation, other First Nations, and African Nova Scotians. His teaching and scholarship encompasses Africa, the Caribbean, the US Civil Rights Movement, Cuba, and Black Nova Scotian history. He is a community activist and participant in the anti-war movement and the anti-racist struggle, with roots in the Black Nova Scotian community and the Caribbean.

Kewoba Carter:
Kewoba is an International Student Advisor & Co-ordinator in Dalhousie’s International Centre. Originally from the island of Dominica, she taught secondary school English Caribbean Literature for two years. She then moved to Canada and graduated from Dalhousie with a Bachelor of Arts Combined Honours in International Development Studies and English.

WEATHER RELATED CLOSURES TONIGHT (SAT, MARCH 2)

Due to the forecast, the Killam Library and the Kellogg Library Learning Commons (CHEB) will close at 10 pm. The Wallace McCain Learning Commons will close at 9:45 pm. Apologies for the inconvenience. Stay safe, everyone!

Congratulations to our survey prizewinners!

Earlier this term, we ran a survey about the libraries and library services. We offered two prizes for participants: a $500 Best Buy gift card and a $300 VISA gift card. We are pleased to share with you a photo of the winners collecting their prizes. We’d like to thank everyone who completed a survey. Your valuable input will inspire and improve library services, technology, collections, and spaces that are important to you.

Breah Carlotta Ali and Jocelyn Brown were our happy prize winners. Congratulations!

Breah Carlotta Ali and Jocelyn Brown were our happy prize winners.

Breah Carlotta Ali and Jocelyn Brown were our happy prize winners. Congratulations!

An Evening with Oisín Curran

Join us for an evening with Oisín Curran, winner of the 2018 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award for his novel, Blood Fable.

Author photo by Sarah Faber.

Author photo by Sarah Faber.

The Raddall Award, first presented in 1991, was established with an endowment by Thomas Head Raddall. With ongoing support from the Raddall family, this award honours the work of fiction writers in the Atlantic region and, as the original benefactor envisioned, provides “the gift of time and peace of mind” so essential to the creation of new work. (Source: WFNS website) It is the largest literary prize awarded in Atlantic Canada.

“Oisín Curran’s Blood Fable is an adventure for the heart and soul.” —Johanna Skibsrud, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize

⇒Thursday, March 7, 7 p.m.
⇒Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia atrium, 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax
⇒Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-reading-with-oisin-curran-tickets-56585566954
Presented by the Dalhousie Libraries and the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia.

About Oisín Curran:
Oisín has an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University where he led fiction-writing workshops for undergraduates at the beginner and intermediate levels. He has also taught screenwriting at the University of Maine at Orono. Recently he’s led fiction workshops in Cape Breton and Maine. In addition to Blood Fable, Oisín has published a novel called Mopus (2008). (Source: WFNS website)

About Blood Fable:9781771662949
Maine, 1980. A utopian community is on the verge of collapse. The charismatic leader’s authority teeters as his followers come to realize they’ve been exploited for too long. To make matters worse, the eleven-year-old son of one adherent learns that his mother has cancer.

Taking refuge in his imagination, the boy begins to speak of another time and place. His parents believe he is remembering his own life before birth. This memory, a story within the story of Blood Fable, is an epic tale about the search for a lost city refracted through the lens of the adventures the boy loves to read. But strangely, as the world around them falls apart, he and his parents find that his story seems to foretell the events unfolding in their present lives.

 

2016 Census ADA and DA maps available for Nova Scotia (with CT maps for Halifax County)

census2016_benefitsWhen working with Census geography, everywhere is somewhere. For Nova Scotia, the 2016 Census reference maps at the Aggregate Dissemination Area (ADA) and Dissemination Area (DA) geographic levels are now publicly available through the Dalhousie University Dataverse <https://dataverse.library.dal.ca>.

These are PDF files from Statistics Canada that define ADA and DA boundaries for all eighteen counties in Nova Scotia. DAs (formerly Enumeration Areas), have been used since the 2001 Census, but ADAs are new. They were created for the 2016 Census to encompass areas having a population ideally between 5,000 and 15,000, and cover an entire county (respecting its boundary).

The number of ADAs reflect the overall population of each county. Halifax County has 57 ADAs whereas Guysborough County has only one. Each county is a Dataverse dataset with its own Readme file, providing the coding correspondence between each ADAuid and DAuid. These identifiers are defined in the Readme file. In addition, there are CT maps that define the Census Tracts for the Halifax Census Metropolitan Area (CMA=205). Overall, this collection contains more than a thousand maps (PDF files). You can download one or more files.

Note: The DA reference maps are not available on the StatCan website but the Statistics Canada Open Licence enables us to distribute this collection of maps on an “as is” basis.

Special thanks to Sai Chua and Lachlan MacLeod for all of their work on this!

Fair Dealing Week 2019 – Fair Dealing and Students

fairdealing_weekThis is part four in a five-part series of blog posts celebrating Fair Dealing Week (February 25th to March 1st, 2019).

by Lachlan MacLeod

The copyright landscape in Canada has undergone significant changes recently. To ensure a fair and reasonable approach to the use of copyright protected materials on campus, Dalhousie has sought to balance the rights of users with those of creators. To help accomplish this, the university has established a Copyright Office and has most recently adopted updated Fair Dealing Guidelines.

As students of Dalhousie University, you may copy materials for which the university (e.g. the Dal Libraries) has negotiated licenses, according to the terms of the individual license agreements. In addition to license agreements, fair dealing allows you to make use of a work for yourself for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, news reporting, education, and parody or satire. For example, you can copy one article from a journal, or one chapter from a book for the purpose of your studies and research.

Without fair dealing, any time you wished to make use of a copyrighted work in your course, you would need permission from the copyright holder, perhaps even paying a licensing fee. This short presentation illustrates uses that we might take for granted and would not be legal without fair dealing:

what student life would be like without fair dealing

For more information on how fair dealing affects Students, please take some time to read about Fair Dealing for Students, and consult our Fair Dealing Guidelines. Please feel free to contact the Copyright Office with any questions or comments at copyright.office@dal.ca

RESOLVED: Problem with Ovid

UPDATE: The publisher has reported this problem has been resolved (March 1).

The publisher has identified a problem whereby Ovid full-text articles are unavailable for the most current issue of several journals accessed via Ovid. While the link to the article is displayed on the Ovid platform, users will see a “Linked article not available” message after clicking the link.

The publisher expects the links to be functional by mid-week and they apologize for the inconvenience.

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