March 2012

The University of Saskatchewan Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture and Creativity and the Exploring Culture Working Group invites proposals from artists, activists, student and community groups, and community-based scholars to engage with the resources of the Neil Richards Collections and associated archives which are held by the University Library, University Archives and Sask Archives. These collections preserve many items representing the popular culture of LGBTQ communities of Saskatchewan, Canada and beyond, including fiction, non-fiction and art books, lifestyle and physique magazines, comic and cartoon books, posters, postcards, button collections, sound recordings and archival materials. For more information about the program click here.
For more information about the Sexual and Gender Diversity Collections on Campus see: http://library.usask.ca/spcoll/diversity/campusresources.php

Current Protocols: a collection of ebooks on laboratory protocols for health sciences and veterinary medicine is now available; as well as International Tables for Crystallography: the interactive version of the International Tables for Crystallography, and the definitive resource and reference work for crystallography. Check out their links here, or you can access them through the Databases A-Z list.

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Current Protocols and International Tables for Crystallography are now available! Check out their links here, or you can access them through the Databases A-Z list.

Film: "Jim Settee: The Way Home"
Date: Tuesday, March 20th
Time & Place: 12:00 to 1:00 in the CLL
Bring your lunch!

Jim Settee was a Metis elder and at the age of 86, the oldest person to be ordained in the Anglican Church. As a spiritual mentor he helped many of his own people to better their lives and improve their communities. This documentary traces the remarkable life of a man dedicated to preserving the heritage of the people of Northern Saskatchewan. It's also a story of transformation for the filmmaker and many others who found their own road home through Settee's kindness.

Join the University of Saskatchewan's Aboriginal Students' Centre (ASC) in celebrating Aboriginal Achievement Week.

The University Library Strategic Plan sets out an ambitious vision to transform library collections, facilities, services and our organisational culture.
In January 2009, as part of the broader transformation strategy, the University Library launched the Library Leadership Development Program (LLDP) and since then four cohorts of program participants (over 70 library employees, representing over half of library’s workforce) have successfully completed LLDP.
On February 6, 2012 the participants from the fourth LLDP cohort celebrated their program completion at a reception at the Faculty Club. Congratulations to the LLDP4 graduates!
For more information about the University Library Leadership Development Program, read Dean Williamson’s article “Developing Leadership to Transform our Library: The Library Leadership Development Program (LLDP) at the University of Saskatchewan.”

Check out our new guide that walks you through all the steps for using Endnote X5 - a great citation management program that lets you manage all your references for assignments and papers, and creates instant bibliographies in the citation style (APA, Vancouver, MLA, etc) of your choice. See here for the Endnote handout.

Check out our new guide that walks you through all the steps for using Endnote X5 - a great citation management program that lets you manage all your references for assignments and papers, and creates instant bibliographies in the citation style (APA, Vancouver, MLA, etc) of your choice. See here for the Endnote handout.

As reported in this blog back in January, the RWA is a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representations in December 2011 that would repeal the National Institutes of Health's Public Access Policy - and cause a severe setback in the Open Access movement.

The introduction of this bill ignited a firestorm of opposition online, led by Micheal Eisen who also exposed the major contributions made by Elsevier to the election campaigns of the sponsors of the bill.

This revelation seemed to be the spark that finally spurred action among academics. The Cost of Knowledge boycott, initiated by Tim Glowers and Tyler Neylon, enlisted more than 7000 researchers who pledged not to support any Elsevier journal (publish, edit, review).

On February 23, 2012, 11 Research University Provosts signed an essay on Values and Scholarship in InsideHigherEd that provided strong support for the signatories of the Cost of Knowledge boycott.

In addition to individual researchers, publishers also started to publicly oppose the RWA (Peter Suber and Richard Poynder maintained lists of these).

All of the negative press accumulated to a point that Elsevier finally backed away from its support of this bill on Feb 27, 2012, and within hours, Representatives Issa and Maloney withdrew the bill.

Come by and check out our new paleontology display in Natural Sciences Library!

The display is divided into two parts:

1. The Barrnade monographs - this is a collection of rare 19th century books purchased jointly by the Library and the Department of Geological Sciences in 2009. The volumes provide descriptions and beautiful illustrations of invertebrate fossils. This is the first time a selection of these valuable volumes has been displayed since their acquisition!

2. A celebration of the new textbook by Luis Buatois and Gabriela Mangano of the Department of Geological Sciences: Ichnology : organism-substrate interactions in space and time.

The Health Sciences Library has a new leisure reading collection, which consists of non-fiction and fiction designed to be read for pleasure. Some titles are literary, while others are more popular; some also cover health sciences themes. Doing a title search for Health Sciences Leisure Reading Collection in the library catalogue will show you which titles are in the collection now. We have more than 200 titles at the moment; more will be added in the coming months.

Check out our new guide that walks you through all the steps for using Endnote X5 - a great citation management program that lets you manage all your references for assignments and papers, and creates instant bibliographies in the citation style (APA, Vancouver, MLA, etc) of your choice. See here for the Endnote handout.

Come to the Speed Scrabble Tournament on the ground floor between 2:00 and 4:00!

Cheer on your favourite team in person or support Read Saskatoon by making a donation on their website.