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Spines of Kipling scrapbooks, some dating to the nineteenth century. These scrapbooks are the focus of the Digital Kipling Project.
by Roger Gillis, Digital Humanities Librarian; Diana Doublet, Digitization Assistant; and Jessica Ruzek (digital exhibit assistant)
This post is the first in a series that will highlight the Dal Libraries’ Digital Kipling project. The project involves digitizing and contextualizing the Rudyard Kipling Scrapbooks — part of the internationally renowned Kipling Collection held in the Dalhousie Libraries’ Special Collections.
The Dalhousie Libraries’ Kipling Collection has an international reputation as the most comprehensive collection of Rudyard Kipling’s publications in the world. Containing an exhaustive selection of Kipling’s literary and journalistic works, the Kipling Collection holds important research ephemera and support material by and about Kipling, including manuscripts, letters, pamphlets, original illustrations from Kipling’s works, autographs, sketches, and sheet music for poems set to music. Kipling was one of the most popular authors in the UK in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is the author of The Jungle Book.
The Kipling Collection also contains the Kipling Collection scrapbooks: 11 scrapbooks created by notable nineteenth and twentieth century Kipling enthusiasts from England and the United States. There are seven collectors behind the 11 scrapbooks: Sir William Garth, Ellis Ames Ballard, G. D. Wells, James Todman Goodwin and three unidentified collectors. (The collectors of these scrapbooks will be explored in a future post as part of this series.) These scrapbooks are informal compilations, which preserve Kipling’s early journalistic works, as well various versions and editions of poems, short stories, and serials, many of which no longer survive in their original form.
The Digital Kipling Project team of Diana, Roger, and Jessica gingerly explore one of the scrapbooks, brittle with age.
This summer, the Dalhousie Libraries’ Digital Kipling Project team will be digitizing the scrapbooks and creating a digital humanities exhibit via the Libraries’ new digital exhibit space using Omeka, an open source web-publishing platform. The project team consists of Roger Gillis (project manager/digital humanities librarian), Diana Doublet (digitization assistant), and Jessica Ruzek (digital exhibit assistant). The team is working with digital archivist Creighton Barrett and special collections librarian Karen Smith to bring this project to fruition.
By digitizing the scrapbooks, this project will enhance the accessibility of the Kipling Collection, provide contextual and background information crucial to the scrapbooks, and will further support research surrounding Kipling. The Digital Kipling online exhibit will launch in the fall of 2017. Updates and information on the site can be found here: http://kipling.library.dal.ca
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries has elected Donna Bourne-Tyson, Dalhousie’s University Librarian, as CARL President for a two year-term, 2017–2019. “It’s a great honour to serve the research library community in Canada in this capacity,” said Donna. “Academic research libraries are at the vanguard of technology as the sharing and dissemination of information shifts to digital environments. It’s a time of rapid change and growth for libraries.”
Donna has recently commenced her second term as the University Librarian at Dalhousie and has been in the role since 2011, previously having served as the University Librarian at Mount Saint Vincent University. Currently, she oversees a team of 120 librarians and staff and ensures Dal Libraries meet the needs of the Dalhousie community through supporting initiatives such as open access, scholarly communications, research data preservation and learning communities.
As President of CARL, Donna will work collaboratively with 29 of Canada’s largest university libraries plus Library and Archives Canada and Canada’s National Science Library. CARL supports Canada’s research community by providing improved access to research services, promoting effective and sustainable scholarly communication and advocating public policies that enable broad access to scholarly information. CARL member libraries spend over $335 million annually on information resources to support learning, teaching and research and act as a foundation for Canadian-led innovation by providing access to knowledge, as well as preserving vital information required to support Canada’s research community.
As CARL’s president, Donna will be joining an impressive group of university leaders who have served in this role, including: Tom Hickerson, Vice-Provost for Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary; Gerald Beasley, Vice-Provost and Chief Librarian at the University of Alberta, soon to become the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian for Cornell University; and most recently Martha Whitehead, Vice-Provost Libraries & Digital Planning at Queen’s University.
by Becky Tucker,
NSCC PR Intern
Success can come in many forms, but recently for Dalhousie Librarian Dr. Joyline Makani, it has come through her excellence in research.
Joyline holds a doctorate in knowledge management, as well as an MLIS and an MBA, all from Dalhousie. She has written numerous papers about knowledge management and e-learning, and has garnered international recognition for her work.
In 2015, Dr. Makani and Dr. Martine Durier-Copp were awarded a SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant to conduct research into new ways of learning, particularly how higher education Canadians will need to thrive in an evolving society and labour market. Their completed project included a research paper titled, Strengthening Deeper Learning through Virtual Teams in E-Learning: A Synthesis of Determinant and Best Practices, which received the prestigious title of Best Paper 2016 from International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education.
Following soon after, Joyline and her co-authors with Dr. David Roach and Dr. Joel Ryman were notified that their paper Effectuation, innovation and performance in SMEs: an empirical study, which was published in European Journal of Innovation Management, was chosen as the Outstanding Paper in the 2017 Emerald
Literati Network Awards for Excellence.
As a Dal alumna, Joyline continues to prove the excellence of the programs offered at Dalhousie. The Dalhousie Libraries are very proud of her research into areas of local, national and international importance.
Congratulation to Joyline on all her successes so far this year!
Please join us for a presentation from the Director of the Portage Network, Chuck Humphrey. The Portage Network is dedicated to the shared stewardship of research data in Canada through:
If you are planning to attend, RSVP to marlo.mackay@dal.ca
Please indicate if you would like to attend remotely when you RSVP and you will receive a link.
The Document Delivery request forms are currently unavailable. We hope to have them back up soon, but in the meantime, please send your requests to docdel@dal.ca.
We apologize for the inconvenience and we appreciate your patience.
UPDATE: Thurs., May 11: Access to the Document Delivery request forms has been restored. We thank you for your patience.
Thanks to the Dalhousie Office of Sustainability, we’re giving away black-eyed Susan seeds at all five Dal Libraries in celebration of Earth Day. Go to any one of the Access Services desks to get your free seeds and don’t forget to plant them. The bees and butterflies will thank you! 
Photo by Zach Faye.
This May, the Killam Library will be hosting a very special production by Zuppa Theatre Co. called The Archive of Missing Things. It promises to be a theatrical production unlike any you’ve ever experienced.
Zuppa describes the production as, “An online scavenger hunt in the middle of an immersive, undercover performance that happens in libraries.” Imagine it: You’re at a table in a library with a wireless headset and an iPad, you get to be a sleuth in an online mystery. You choose your own path, and clues are everywhere – in the library all around you and in the live conversations you overhear in your headset. You have exactly 90 minutes to solve the puzzle. Can you do it? The Archive of Missing Things was created with Trillium-Award-winning writer Kate Cayley, award-winning sound designer Brian Riley, and computer programmer Ned Zimmerman. It is a theatrical scavenger hunt through the big ideas and little tragedies of the past.
The inaugural run of this innovative production will run May 15–27, as part of the Stages Theatre Festival. They have already been invited to perform this at other festivals such as the International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, England in the fall of 2017.
Check out the teaser video starring the Killam. Tickets are available here.
Photo by Zach Faye.
For the third year, the Dalhousie Libraries is offering Research Bootcamp, a suite of sessions designed for teaching and research assistants and graduate students. Learn effective and efficient information management techniques and literature search skills to support research endeavours.
Sessions will run from May 15–June 13 and will cover: library basics; literature reviews (searching and writing); citation tools; writing abstracts & grant proposals; copyright, open access & academic publishing; legal resources; engineering resources; PubMed and other health sciences databases; humanities resources; Canadian data and stats; grey literature; research data management; Excel; data visualization; conference posters. Complete session list and descriptions are available at http://dal.ca.libguides.com/ResearchBootcamp/2017/Schedule
Faculty can recommend the workshops to their RAs/TAs or register on their behalf. Participants can attend most sessions in-person in Halifax (various Halifax Campus locations) or via video conferencing at the Agricultural Campus or DMNB.
Event website, including schedule, session descriptions, FAQs http://dal.ca.libguides.com/ResearchBootcamp
Exam season will soon be upon us! Extended hours and Night Owls are on at the Dalhousie Libraries. Check out this handy schedule, and best of luck on your exams!
Kellogg Library Learning Commons (CHEB)
Effective Monday, March 20–Tuesday, April 25 
Sunday: 8 a.m.–3 a.m.
Monday–Thursday: 7:30 a.m.–3 a.m.*
Friday: 7:30 a.m.–midnight*
Saturday: 8 a.m.–midnight
*Exception: Good Friday, April 14: 10 a.m.–6:30 p.m.
Please note: Tiger Patrol is running until 3 a.m. during Night Owls. Call (902)499-1831 or (902)718-9908 for more information.
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Killam Memorial Library
Effective Sunday, March 26
Sunday: 10 a.m.–3 a.m.
Monday–Thursday: 7:30 a.m.–3 am.
Friday: 7:30 a.m.–midnight
Saturday: 10 a.m.–midnight
Effective Saturday, April 1–Tuesday, April 25*
Sunday–Thursday: 8 a.m.–3 am.
Friday: 8 a.m.–midnight
Saturday: 8 a.m.–midnight
Please note: Tiger Patrol is running until 3 a.m. during Night Owls. Call (902)499-1831 or (902)718-9908 for more information. There is also free parking in the McCain Building parkade from 11:30 a.m. until 3 a.m. during Night Owls.
*Exception: Good Friday, April 14: 1–9 p.m.
All Dalhousie & King’s students are welcome, but after midnight you’ll need your DalCard for access.
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MacRae Library
Effective Monday, March 20–Friday, April 21*
Monday–Friday: 8:30 a.m.–midnight
Saturday & Sunday: 10 a.m.–midnight
*Exception: Hours on Friday, April 14 (Good Friday) will be 10 a.m.–midnight.
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Sexton Design & Technology Library
Effective Friday, April 7–Wednesday, April 26
Monday–Friday: 8 a.m.–midnight
Saturday & Sunday: 10 a.m.–midnight
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Sir James Dunn Law Library
Effective Thursday, April 6–Saturday, April 22*
Monday–Friday: 8 a.m.–10:45 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m.–5:45 p.m.
Sunday: noon–10:45 p.m.
*Exception: Hours on Friday, April 14 (Good Friday): 9 a.m.–10:45 p.m.
Please note: Hours in the W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library (Tupper location) and the Wallace McCain Learning Commons will not be extended during exams.