The Dalhousie University CLA student chapter is pleased to announce that it has been yet another successful and eventful year for their Professional Mentoring Program (PMP).
The PMP program pairs School of Information Management students with professionals in the field in hopes that students may glean advice and guidance from their more experienced colleagues and that both parties might build rewarding relationships to be developed in the years to come.
On Wednesday January 19th, SIM’s Special Libraries Association student chapter hosted a tour of two libraries of the Capital Health region located within the IWK Hospital: the Health Sciences Library and the Family Resources Library. Librarian and SIM alumna Darlene Chapman – Manager of Information Sources- began the afternoon with a tour of the IWK’s Health Science’s Library. This library is open to the public and primarily serves the staff and students of the Capital Health system. It is difficult to imagine that fifty years ago this was instead a specialized medical library open only to physicians; things have changed significantly. Darlene and her staff of 1½ library assistants serve all Capital Health staff at all levels, as well as its affiliated students in a variety of ways: