STUDENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY – NOVANET LIVE HELP (Three positions)
The Novanet consortium has three openings for student assistants to work on our Live Help virtual reference service. We are looking to hire three students (or recent graduates), each of whom will cover three Live Help shifts per week, with each shift lasting two hours, for a total of six hours work per week.
The Dalhousie School of Information Management (SIM) Associated Alumni (AA) is delighted to announce that Margaret Murphy (MLIS ’76) has been chosen as the recipient of the 2011 Outstanding Alumni Award. The award will be presented on September 22 at SIM.
Ms. Murphy has served as the Nova Scotia Legislative Librarian for 26 years. During this time she has revolutionized the Legislative Library, ushering in automation, digitization, preservation and greater access to the public. She has been recognized by the Nova Scotia Legislature more than once for her many efforts. Prior to her long tenure at the Nova Scotia Legislative Library, Ms. Murphy worked for six years as Librarian at the Nova Scotia Department of Attorney General (now the Department of Justice) as well as a stint as the Head of Cataloguing at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Law Library.
MARKER POSTING
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5
POSTING DATE: August 29, 2011
APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 12, 2011
POSITION: Marker (4 positions) Sept – Dec 2011
DEPARTMENT/LOCATION: Bachelor of Management, Faculty of Management
PAY RATE: $14.49 hour (as per CUPE Collective Agreement) 50 hours of work for the term
WORK ASSIGNMENT: The marker will assist with MGMT 1601 – Electronic Information Management
Teaching Assistant Posting
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 3J5
POSTING DATE: August 29, 2011
APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 12, 2011
POSITION: Teaching Assistant (3 positions) September 2011 – December 2011
DEPARTMENT/LOCATION: Bachelor of Management, Faculty of Management
PAY RATE: $14.49 hour (as per CUPE Collective Agreement) 45 hours or 90 hours of work for the term
WORK ASSIGNMENT: The marker will assist with MGMT 3602 – Professional Communications Skills
TEACHING ASSISTANT POSTING
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
POSTING DATE: August 25th
APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 5th
POSITION: Teaching Assistant (6 positions) [Sept 2010 Dec 2010]
DEPARTMENT/LOCATION: Bachelor of Management
PAY RATE: $21.09 (approx. 90 hours)
WORK ASSIGNMENT: The Teaching Assistant will assist with MGMT 1000 – Introduction to Management Issues I
MARKER POSTING
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 3J5
POSTING DATE: Aug. 17, 2011
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Aug. 31, 2011
POSITION: Marker (1 position) Sept 2011 – Dec 2011
DEPARTMENT/LOCATION: Bachelor of Management, Faculty of Management
PAY RATE: $14.49 hour (approx. 50 hours)
WORK ASSIGNMENT: The marker will assist with Mgmt 3309 – Management Skills Development
Web Assistant: Part-time Contract Position
Contract: 8 month (renewable), September -April, 3 days (21 hours) per week
Rate of pay: $17.50 per hour
Reporting to: Advancement Director
Responsible for the technical upkeep of www.ukings.ca, the Web Assistant will work primarily with Advancement and the Registrar’s Office. He/she will be responsible for maintaining the integrity of the site’s architecture and design while working with College constituencies to build on the existing structure. He/She will report to the Advancement Director and will work in tandem with the Communications Co-ordinator to ensure the content for the website is consistent to standard and error-free.
Please join us in congratulating Donna Bourne-Tyson (class of 1990) who has been appointed the University Librarian at Dalhousie. Below is the press release from Dal’s President, Tom Traves:
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Donna Bourne-Tyson as the University Librarian, following a national and international search process. Ms. Bourne-Tyson assumes her new position effective Nov. 1, 2011.
Donna has been the University Librarian at Mount Saint Vincent University since 2005, where she has led numerous innovative changes in that system. In addition, her knowledge of copyright issues will be valuable in informing the strategy of the university as we proceed further into electronic resources. Donna is recognized regionally and nationally in the university library community and we look forward to working with her to expand the reach and effectiveness of the information resources at Dalhousie as we go forward.
Donna is familiar with Dalhousie as an alumna of Dalhousie’s Master of Library and Information Studies program. In addition, she holds a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Arts from Nipissing University.
Bill Maes has kindly agreed to continue serving as the University Librarian until the end of October. Bill has led the University Library with great vision from a typical books and journal building into the learning hub we have today. I would like to thank him for his exemplary service to Dalhousie over the past 12 years and wish him a productive and well-earned sabbatical year.
You are invited to attend a research poster session, which a group of Master of Information Management (MIM) students will present next week.
Date: Thursday, 4 August
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: Room 3087, Rowe Management Building
These MIM students have been conducting research projects as a requirement of their capstone course over the past three months, and are the first to complete the degree, which was launched in 2008. They will convocate in October as the first Master of Information Management graduates in Canada.
Congratulations to Sandra Toze who was chosen for one of the Faculty of Management’s teaching awards. Please see Dean Peggy Cunningham’s comments below:
It is with great pleasure that I announce this year’s winners of the Faculty of Management’s Teaching Awards: Ms Tammy Crowell, Mr Dan Shaw, and Ms Sandra Toze. Please join me in congratulating each of them. Formal presentation of the awards will take place at our annual Faculty retreat in November.
A wide range of factors were considered for granting the awards – students’ assessments of teaching quality, letters of reference from colleagues, the applicant’s use of innovative teaching methods and technologies to support learning, his/her support of students inside and outside the classroom, and contributions to knowledge related to teaching practice. This award is funded through the generosity of Mr. Bill Black, a long-time supporter of the Faculty and a passionate promoter of teaching excellence. I am delighted to report that he has agreed to fund the award for the next five years.
The Committee tasked with selecting the award winners faced a daunting task this year. Ten of our colleagues were invited to apply for the award. Each application was of extremely high quality. To me this is clearly indicative of our Faculty’s devotion to, and expertise in, teaching quality. Thus, while there are not enough awards to recognize all of our excellent teachers, I wish to congratulate and thank each and every one of them for the incredible work they do as instructors and mentors of our students.