Welcome to our 2024 Dalhousie Libraries interns!
Meet Shannon, Kate, Jenna, Kima, Rebecca, and Kelti.
They told us a little bit about themselves, what brought them to Dal, and what they’ve been working on.
Read all about our 2024 interns.
May 5 is Red Dress Day
The Red Dress Day exhibit in the Ko’jua Okuom in the Killam Memorial Library.
May 5 is Red Dress Day, a day of honouring missing and murdered Indigenous people.
Learn more about Red Dress Day.
Learn more about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) by reading the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Find love in the libraries with Blind Date with a Book!
Blind date with a book is happening now in the libraries!
We want to set you up with the book of your dreams – find love in a library near you.
Find our book displays at the Killam, Kellogg, Sexton, and Dunn libraries.
Try Your Room, Try Your Tech
The Classroom Technologies Unit, part of Dalhousie Libraries’ Academic Technology Services Team (ATS), invites faculty and instructors to check out the technology in classrooms on the Studley and Sexton campuses before classes start up again.
The rooms listed below are open for you to drop in and try out at the specified times. If you can’t make the times listed below, call the number listed or email support@dal.ca ahead of time to make an appointment to meet with the technician.
| If you teach in... | Drop-in to check out the tech on... | For A/V assistance, call... |
|---|---|---|
| Sexton B Building (rooms B225, B227, B228, B308, B309, B311) | Monday, August 28 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m | 902-494-8357 |
| LSC (rooms 202, 208, 210, 212, 234, 238, 240, 242) | Monday, August 28 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m | 902-494-6471 |
| LSC Psych (rooms 4208, 4260, 5208, 5260) | Monday, August 28 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m | 902-494-6471 |
| Chemistry (rooms 125, 223, 226) | Monday, August 28 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. | 902-494-6471 |
| Dunn (rooms 101, 135, 301, 304) | Monday, August 28 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. | 902-494-6471 |
| Killam (MacMechan Auditorium, 2600, 2622, 4106) | Tuesday, August 29 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | 902-494-2981 |
| Mona Campbell (rooms 1107, 2107) | Tuesday, August 29 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | 902-494-2981 |
| Sexton D Building (rooms D406, D410, D501) | Tuesday, August 29 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | 902-494-8357 |
| McCain (rooms 1102, 1130, 1170, 2104, 2116, 2118, 2130, 2132, 2162, 2170, 2176, 2184, 2190) | Tuesday, August 29 1–4 p.m. | 902-494-2981 |
| Computer Science (room 127) | Wednesday, August 30 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | 902-494-3893 |
| Rowe (rooms 1007, 1009, 1011, 1014, 1016, 1028) | Wednesday, August 30 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | 902-494-3893 |
| Dunn (room 117) | Wednesday, August 30 1–4 p.m. | 902-494-6471 |
| Sexton Ind. Eng. (rooms 120, 121, 220, 222) | Wednesday, August 30 1–4 p.m. | 902-494-8357 |
| Hicks (rooms 212, 217) | Wednesday, August 30 1:00 –4:00 p.m. | 902-494-6471 |
Sexton Library Closure: Saturday, May 27
Due to a planned power outage on Sexton Campus, the Sexton Library will be closed on Saturday, May 27.
Facilities Management will be implementing a power outage from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. to complete critical high voltage electrical maintenance. The work will affect the entire campus, with the exceptions of: O’Brien Hall, Gerard Hall, Grad House, the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (Halifax Data Collection Site), Hart House (K Building), and Moren House(L Building).
Steam shutdown coming up on Sunday, May 7
Facilities Management must do essential maintenance to our steam distribution network and have determined that this will take place for 20 hours on Sunday, May 7 from 12:01 a.m. until 8 p.m. in the evening.
This will mean no heat or hot water in many of our buildings on Studley and Carleton campuses during this time. All Dalhousie Libraries locations will remain open. However, only cold water will be available in the washrooms. Water fountains will remain operational.
Key personnel in the most impacted areas are aware. If you see any issues with this shutdown please contact Gordon Rines Gordon.rines@dal.ca
Lesbian Visibility Day Event at Mount Saint Vincent University: Wednesday, April 26, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 26 is Lesbian Visibility Day at Mount Saint Vincent University. To mark this special day, an event will be held from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the MSVU Art Gallery.
The event will highlight the MSVU Lesbian Pulp Fiction Collection, the Dalhousie University Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive, and the Dalhousie University Lesbian Oral History Project. Speakers will reflect on lesbian visibility and invisibility, and the need for collections that highlight the lives of women who love women. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.
The event is a highlight of Lesbian Visibility Week, which runs from April 24-30.
Please contact elisabeth.heroux-rhymes@msvu.ca to RSVP.
Research Summer Camp
Are you a graduate student, research assistant, or teaching assistant looking to develop your research skills? The Research Summer Camp is a comprehensive program that will take you through the research process from literature searching and writing all the way to publication. The program is open to any student, faculty, or staff member at Dalhousie, but is specifically tailored to graduate students.
The Research Summer Camp will be offered as a series of online modules on Brightspace and live online sessions. Modules may include short video lectures and interactive exercises to help you brush up on your literature searching, writing, information management, and research skills. By registering for this program, you will have access to all of the pre-recorded modules beginning on May 15th, 2023. You also have the option to register for sessions in the program that will be delivered live (online) in May and June.
Starting in May 2023, we are also offering certificates for completion of Research Summer Camp sessions and modules. For a full list of available certificates, see the Certificate page on the Research Summer Camp website.
Registration is open now, and access starts on May 15th, 2023. To self-register for the program
· Log into Brightspace
· In the Academic Support menu, select Self-registration
· From the list of courses, find and select Online Community – Research Camp 2023-2024
To register for live sessions, visit the Dal Libraries Events Calendar: https://dal.libcal.com/calendar/events
Program website, including schedule, module descriptions, FAQs: https://dal.ca.libguides.com/ResearchCamp
DMP Assistant Platform Upgrade
The DMP Assistant will be unavailable from 9am to 6pm AST on February 22nd, 2023 for a system upgrade.
Any work that DMP Assistant users have completed prior to the shutdown will be migrated to the new 3.1.0 platform, along with any other existing data management plans (DMPs), templates and user data. Users should save and/or export any existing DMPs/data that they may require during the shutdown period. Once launched, users will be able to access the DMP Assistant 3.1.0 service at the same URL (https://assistant.portagenetwork.ca/) with their existing credentials, and new users may create accounts as normal.
The upgraded version of the DMP Assistant will improve security and user experience, and come with several exciting new features, including a new “Research Output” tab that allows users to:
- Specify the type (e.g., dataset, software, image, etc.), name and a description of the output, size (if applicable), whether or not it contains sensitive information, what the initial access level will be (e.g., open, restricted, closed), and the anticipated publication date
- Select an appropriate license from the SPDX License List
- Select any metadata standards that will be followed from the RDA Metadata standards catalog
- Select the repositories they intend to preserve the object in from a dropdown list powered by re3data
For more information or any questions, please contact Shiloh Williams, Product Lead, Data Management Planning, Digital Research Alliance of Canada, at support@portagenetwork.ca.
February 13-17 Love Data Week 2023 – “Data: Agent of Change”
In honor of ICPSR’s International Love Data Week 2023, which has the theme of “Data: Agent of Change”, Dalhousie Libraries will be hosting a series of online presentations aimed at giving you insights into varied aspects of working with data. Whether you are a new, experienced, secret, or not so secret “data agent”, you may very well find the right tool or approach that you need during a Love Data Week event. Taking place from February 13-17, presentations include:
- Data Management Planning: the basics of writing a plan with the DMP assistant
- Going Beyond PUMFs with the ARDC: what does it take to access the rich collection of Canadian microdata held by the RDCs?
- Geospatial Data in a Changing World. Everything happens somewhere.
- Equipping Yourself for Excellent Excel Practices: what to do and consider before you even get started.
To register for these (free) online sessions presented by Dalhousie Libraries and other organizations, check out our Love Data Week 2023 Research Guide. You will find Event details and registration information in our Events section.