Struggling with citations? Get it right the first time with our Anatomy of an APA Citation video!
Killam LC Hours Extended for Dal Night Owls
Stressing about finals? Need more late night study time? We hear you!
Starting November 1st and continuing through December 19th, use your DalCard to access Dal Night Owls extended hours in the Killam Learning Commons and Atrium, Sundays through Thursdays, from midnight to 3am. Extended hours apply to the Learning Commons/Atrium only. The Help Desk, Circulation Desk, and upper library floors (2nd to 5th) will close at midnight.
Access is restricted to current Dalhousie or University of King’s College students with a valid DalCard. Just swipe your DalCard through a reader installed at the main University Avenue entrance. Students already in the Learning Commons/Atrium at midnight will be required to swipe their DalCard in a mobile card reader as requested by Library staff.
Free parking in the McCain Parkade* will also be available throughout Dal Night Owls extended hours. If you are walking or biking, remember to stay safe by travelling with “study buddies” — friends or classmates who live in your area.
For more information on Dal Night Owls extended hours, please contact the Killam Circulation Desk at 494-3617. Good luck with your studies!
*The McCain Parkade is the main parking area for events at the Arts Centre. A fee will be charged if you park prior to midnight. After midnight, parking is free of charge until the Learning Commons closes at 3 am.
Find Databases Fast on Our Website
Wondering how to find databases on Dal Libraries’ new website? The answer lies in the single-search bar:
- Type the database’s name into the single-search bar
- Choose “Databases” from the pull-down menu
- Press search
Watch how it’s done in this video, and then head to our homepage to get started on your research.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z10MO6XjvjY
Get set for more tips from Dal librarians in the coming weeks: we’re here to help!
Shandi Mitchell, Under This Unbroken Sky
This evening at 7:30 in the Killam Library, writer and filmmaker Shandi Mitchell will be reading excerpts from her novel Under This Unbroken Sky, winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize.
Read our own Ian Colford’s review of Under This Unbroken Sky, and the Dal News interview with Shandi.
See you at the reading!
October 2010 Issue of Dal Libraries Newsletter
The latest issue of our newsletter Context is hot off the press. Read about our electronic book collections, the Kellogg Library’s involvement with Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, the results of the major library survey we carried out last spring and more!
Context October 2010
RefWorks Tutorial Video
This Introduction to RefWorks tutorial explains how to open a RefWorks account and how to export your references into the RefWorks Citation Manager.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idly1Trz-xw
Libraries Green Team Coffee Cup Campaign
Recycle? Organics? Garbage?
At the Dal Libraries we see hundreds of these disposable coffee cups being dumped in every available receptacle every day. Our Libraries Green Team is launching an awareness campaign to encourage everyone to put their used coffee cups in the right bin. They’ve just placed sets of PROG bins (Paper Recycle Organics Garbage) throughout the Killam Library to make it even easier for you!
So what is the right way to get rid of those disposable cups on campus? The cup and plastic lid go in the garbage; the paper sleeve goes in the organics bin. Of course bringing your own reusable cup is an even greener option.
The Libraries Green Team thanks you for sorting it right!
Shandi Mitchell Reading at Killam
7:30 pm, Thursday October 28
Special Collections Reading Room
5th Floor, Killam Library
494-3615 for more info
The Killam Library is proud to host a reading by the winner of the 2010 Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award, local writer and filmmaker Shandi Mitchell.
Shandi graduated from Dal with a degree in English and Theatre. Her award-winning short films have been featured at festivals across North America. In 2008, she was awarded the Canada Council’s Victor Martin-Lynch Staunton Endowment in Media Arts.
Her debut novel Under This Unbroken Sky was simultaneously published by Penguin Canada, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) and Harper Collins (US) in August 2009. It has sold in nine countries, including translation rights for Chinese, Hebrew, Dutch and Italian. Under This Unbroken Sky won the 2010 Commonwealth Regional Prize for First Book (Canada/Caribbean), the Thomas Head Raddall Fiction Award, and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award.
This reading is hosted by Dalhousie University Archives & Special Collections, holders of the Thomas Head Raddall Collection, and is sponsored by the Canadian Literary Collections Project. Visit the CLCP website for further information!
More Than a Makeover: The New library.dal.ca
This Wednesday the Dalhousie Libraries will be launching our new website as part of “Wave One” of Dal’s web revitalization project. We’ve used this timely opportunity to rethink the way we present ourselves and our information based on usability testing. Much more than a new look, our site is being streamlined and reconfigured to make it more user-friendly. Key features include:
- a single search box with multiple drop-down options
- a “Using the Library” tab to get you started
- library Hours link front and centre
- a central “carousel” highlighting our most popular resources and services
- a Research tab with links to tools and new discipline-specific resource pages
- a Writing & Style Guides tab
- a more dynamic library news and events section
We hope you like what you see, but even more—we hope you find the new library site much easier to use than our old one. A website is always a work in progress. We’d really appreciate your feedback so please use that red feedback buttonat the bottom of the page to let us know what you think!
Student Superstars Model For Killam Shoot
Devon Parkinson, Aaron Binstock, Sarah Volpatti. Click for full view
We recently brought in a university photographer to shoot some stock pics around the Killam. Several Dal students generously volunteered to act as models for the shoot, and they came through like pros!
We’d like to thank Devon Parkinson, Aaron Binstock, Sarah Volpatti (pictured) and Sydney Haughian who did the GIS Centre and Map Collection segments, as well as Michael Ruus who modeled at the Reference Desk with librarian Michelle Paon, and Daniel You who posed with LC Tech Lead Mick Bottom at the Help Desk. If there was an Oscar for Best Library Actor you guys would be sharing it right now!
Click on these thumbnails to see a sample of the final product:
Devon, Sydney & Aaron in the Map Room
Devon & Sarah, GIS Centre
Daniel and Mick, Help Desk
Michael and Michelle at the Ref Desk