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Rebekah Prette Receives Faculty Leadership Award

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On March 7th, 2018 the 7th annual Dalhousie Student Impact Awards gala was held. The Dalhousie IMPACT Awards is an annual event hosted by the Dalhousie Student Union in collaboration with Dalhousie University, to recognize outstanding individuals and student groups that impact our community.

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois (Dean, Faculty of Management) & Rebekah Prette [credit: S. Toze]

Rebekah Prette, MLIS student and current Chair of the School of Information Management Student Association (SIMSA) received the Faculty of Management Leadership Award.

Faculty Leadership awards are given “to a student in good academic standing in each Dalhousie faculty. These students exemplify the highest level of passion for their discipline, take initiative in creating new opportunities, and encourage their peers to engage in faculty initiatives. Faculty Leadership Award winners positively impact other students in their faculty and the reputation of their faculty at Dalhousie outside of the classroom.”

Read the full recap of the gala and award winners here.

Congrats Rebekah!

 

[Photo: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois (Dean, Faculty of Management); Rebekah Prette. Credit: S. Toze]

Research Bootcamp for RAs, TAs, and grad students

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Research bootcamp image for eventbrite 2018For the 4th year, the Dalhousie Libraries is offering Research Bootcamp, a suite of sessions designed for teaching and research assistants and graduate students. If you or someone you know could benefit from developing effective and efficient information management techniques and literature search skills to support research endeavors, please share this information with them.

Sessions will run from May 14–June 6 and will cover: library basics; literature reviews (searching and writing); citation tools; writing abstracts & grant proposals; copyright, open access & predatory publishers; legal resources; business and competitive intelligence 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/2018/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

MLIS alumna co-hosts tech podcast (next episode April 11th!)

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Submitted by Lara Killian (MLIS ’10):

Lara is a librarian educator at Nova Scotia Health Authority with a full weekday schedule of handling medical literature searches, patient education information, and training health care staff to find the information they need to help their patients. Lara is keen to support our provincial health care system with her info management skills, and she also loves to keep up with technology and trends in gadgets and social media. To that end, Lara co-hosts and produces a long-running tech podcast that has recently been rebooted as a monthly Facebook Live production, with the first half hour “webisode” filmed in February 2018. (http://ambermac.com/commandn-feb-2018-deepfakes-healthy-tech-pixelbook-giveaway-more/)

commandN (commandn.tv) started in 2005 with podcast founders Amber Mac and Jeff MacArthur as a YouTube production, and Lara joined the team as a co-host in 2011. The show covers tech, gadgets, and geek culture, and includes reviews and interviews with tech-related entrepreneurs and personalities. As new social networks emerged and attention spans shortened, the team moved the show to Instagram in 2014 and rebranded it as @15secTech, in honour of the maximum length of video clips users were allowed to post. As Instagram grew, the platform changed the max clip length to a full minute, which completely changed the concept of the series. After 350 mini-episodes, the team took a break to consider what the future of the show would be.

Taking note of the popularity and community engagement possible via Facebook Live productions, the team decided to take their mix of tech banter and quick “canned” reviews to Facebook, and fit the show into their now busy family lives by making it once a month, with a mix of live and pre-taped segments. (If you’re not on Facebook, it’s also posted to YouTube.) Amber and Jeff host the show in Toronto, while Lara moderates the chat (and will sometimes Skype in) from Halifax and all three contribute review segments as well as topic ideas.

The next Facebook Live show will run on Wednesday April 11th at 9 pm Atlantic with Amber and Jeff hosting live from Toronto. Check it out online (you can watch it live and join in the comments, or after the fact!) and feel free to ‘like’ the commandN page! https://www.facebook.com/commandN/

CommandN

Dal 200 Film “Going Public” Features MLIS/MPA Graduate

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MLIS/MPA graduate (2009), Amanda Peters, is one of several alumni featured in a new video highlighting contributions grads of the School of Public Administration have made to the Canadian public service.

Read the full story on Dal News here. Watch the full video on YouTube here.

“A new video produced for Dalhousie’s 200th anniversary showcases how graduates of the Master of Public Administration program (MPA) have been contributing to and shaping Canada’s public service.

Titled Going Public, the video features 28 alumni working in the government, non-profit, academic and private sector. The graduating years of these alumni span almost four decades from 1977 to 2014.  Interviewees include Colin Campbell (MPA ’08), whose work with African Nova Scotian Affairs has helped make government services more accessible, and federal employee Shannon Grainger (MPA ’01), who helped secure compensation for thalidomide survivors.”

Going Public

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