The Sexton Library would like to congratulate Electrical Engineering Graduate student Raam Chennai Jagannathan. Raam is the winner of the draw for a $50 Dalhousie Bookstore Giftcard. All Sexton Library accounts set up during the month of September were eligible for the draw.
Pathology e-Books Added to MDConsult
The following pathology books have been added to the e-book collection in MDConsult.
– Hsi: Hematopathology
– Iacobuzio-Donahue & Montgomery: Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology
– Nucci & Oliva: Gynecologic Pathology
– O’Malley & Pinder: Breast Pathology
– Sidawy & Ali: Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology
– Thompson: Endocrine Pathology
– Thompson: Head and Neck Pathology
– Tubbs & Stoler: Cell and Tissue Based Molecular Pathology
– Zander & Farver: Pulmonary Pathology
– Zhou & Magi-Galluzzi: Genitourinary Pathology
To view the full text of these books connect now to MDConsult, click on the “Books” tab, then click on the “Pathology” collection.
Construction on the Second Floor of the Killam
On September 21st work began on a new hi-tech classroom space on the second floor on the Killam, next to the Upper Learning Commons. The classroom will double as a quiet study area during non-classroom times.
Construction is expected to be ongoing until the Christmas break. While it is impossible to ensure that this work is carried out in silence, every effort will be made to keep noise to a minimum. To accomodate students working in the nearby study areas the noisiest of the work has been scheduled to take place early in the mornings.
We apologize for the disruption but we think you will be very happy with the results!
Showcasing Dal Students at Killam
7:30 pm Thursday September 30
Special Collections Reading Room
5th floor, Killam Library
494-3615 for more info
The Killam Library is delighted to host a literary reading by two Dalhousie students, both in their final year of the MLIS program in the School of Information Management. Nicole Dixon and Danny Jacobs are published writers who have won awards for their creative talents.
Nicole Dixon won the Bronwen Wallace Award and was short-listed for the Journey Prize and a CBC Literary Award. Her fiction has appeared in Grain, The Fiddlehead, and The New Quarterly. Her first book High-Water Mark, a collection of short stories, will be published by Porcupine’s Quill in 2012. This winter, Nicole will teach CRWR 3001 (fiction) for the Department of English. Nicole will read from her upcoming story collection.
Danny Jacobs’ poetry has appeared in CV2 and Grain, where he placed first in the 2009 Short Grain Contest. Recently, he was shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2010 Far Horizons Award for poetry. He has poems forthcoming from The Fiddlehead. Danny is currently finishing his MLIS degree from Dalhousie. He will read a selection of his most recent poems.
This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome!
Read the Dal News article on Nicole and Danny
Faculty of 1000: Trial Database
Faculty of 1000 or F1000 is available on a trial basis. It combines F1000 Biology and F1000 Medicine and will also include The Scientist, its magazine of the life sciences, and F1000 Posters, the prototype repository for posters from across the life sciences and medicine.
Explore this database now and let us know what you think of it.
Group Study Rooms at the Kellogg
The Kellogg Library has new group study rooms available for student booking. These added to our older group rooms brings our total to lucky 13! Each room offers wireless Internet, Internet ports, and some have blackboards and whiteboards and can accommodate up to 12-15 people.
Use our online booking service at http://systems.library.dal.ca/RoomBooking/ and login with your Dal NetID. You can book up to a week in advance. Remember to pick up and return the room key at our Circulation counter.
Knovel Challenge Upping Stakes
It’s only been a week since the official launch of the 2010 Knovel Challenge contest and over 700 students from over 70 universities have answered 3 questions correctly – and are now qualified to win an iPad, a $500 cash prize, and gift cards. In addition, three universities have already passed the magic number of 100 correct entries- MIT, Middle East Technical University and University of Arkansas- guaranteeing them contest within the contest winners.
In response to the record breaking participation, Knovel is upping the stakes. To reward the schools with the most activity, we’re adding an additional prize for the top performing school. At the end of the contest, a student at the school with the most entries will be awarded a brand new eco-friendly Toshiba laptop.
Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought Online
A new addition to our Oxford Digital Reference Shelf collection, the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought offers a comprehensive view of this intellectual tradition, from St. Augustine and early Ethiopian philosophers to the anticolonialist movements of Pan Africanism and Negritude.
All major trends in African philosophy, political theory, and religion are covered, as well as significant historical figures and social movements.
Dal Reads 2010: Lawrence Hill at the Libraries
Dalhousie’s reading Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes this fall and maybe some of you were lucky enough to meet the author himself on campus. But did you know that not only has Hill written two other novels—Any Known Blood and Some Great Thing—he’s also the author of a bestselling memoir (Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada) and several non-fiction books, most recently The Deserter’s Tale: the Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq. All of these are either on the shelf at the Dal Libraries or available through Novanet, so check them out!
The Book of Negroes
PS 8565 I444 B66 2009Any Known Blood
PS 8565 I444 A89 1997Some Great Thing
PS 8565 I444 S6 1992Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada
PS 8565 I444 Z53 2001The Deserter’s Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away From the War in Iraq
DS 79.76 K494 2007Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women’s Association, 1951-1976
HS 2265 C3 H55 1996Trials and triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians
F 1035 N3 H543 1993
Introducing Krystle Sichky and Aran Silmeryn
September is a time for new faces, in the libraries as throughout the campus. This fall the Killam is pleased to welcome Krystle Sichky and Aran Silmeryn to our Circulation Department. Both are with us as full-time temps, Krystle until the end of December and Aran until the end of April.
Krystle graduated from Dal this past spring with a BA in arts and history. She’s no newcomer to the library–in fact her first job as a Dal student was in our Document Delivery Dept. where she worked for three semesters in 2005-06. Krystle loves camping and biking and appropriately is also a keen reader. She says she’s about to dive into The Red Tent and is definitely going to be raiding the Killam’s shelves while she’s here.
Aran is a newly-minted LIT grad from the NSCC, where he has worked part-time at the Waterfront Campus library. With his diploma in Library & Information Technology he’s trained in a wide variety of areas: library management, acquisitions, cataloguing, document delivery, readers’ advisory skills and more. Aran also plays in several Wolfville bands, including TripALady, which had a CD release this past June at the Old Orchard Inn. That’s him fronting on guitar at Night Kitchen in Acadia Cinema’s Al Whittle Theatre.
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