Education & Music Library

M-F: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sat: 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.**
Until June 30th
Closed May 19th

One month trial – March 1-31, 2012
http://usask.NaxosVideoLibrary.com

The University Library brings you this trial – Naxos extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Watch the world’s greatest opera houses, ballet companies, orchestras and artists perform on demand!

Key features include:
1. Over 1375 full-lengh videos, available anytime, anywhere
2. Search videos by category, role, composer, artists, production personnel, work, venue

The following login is for UofS affiliates who are having trouble with authentication via your unique URL. This login allows for full streaming, but no playlist or clip creation.

General (Member) Username:
Member Login: USASKmm
Member Password: USASKmm

Contact Carolyn Doi, Music Liaison Librarian, Carolyn.doi@usask.ca, with comments and suggestions.

Librarians Without Borders (LWB) is a non profit organization that aims to improve access to information resources in communities worldwide. For several years I have worked on behalf of LWB on development, research and learning projects related to literacy and libraries in Guatemala. Our partner organization in Guatemala is the Miguel Angel Asturias Academy, a non-profit Pre K-12 school in the city of Quetzaltenango that serves approximately 300 students from varying backgrounds: indigenous, non-indigenous, poor, working class and middle class. The Academy’s desire to promote reading and literacy at the school led to a partnership with LWB that began in 2009 and continues to this day. In that time, a fully operational community library has been built on the school grounds, and it is used on a daily basis by students and staff at the school as part of their curriculum requirements and to support leisure reading activities. Currently, LWB is supporting a project to train a local Guatemalan teacher to run the library and reading programs at the Academy.

In my capacity as Guatemala Project Manager I have worked with graduate students at several Canadian Library and Information Science University Programs to develop conceptual and practical solutions to library development and access to information resources at the Asturias Academy. The library students are able to draw on theoretical research and critical thinking skills developed in the classroom and apply them to this real-life situation. Presently, two teams of students are working on projects: one to develop curriculum support activities, materials and lesson plans and another exploring best practices and solutions for implementation of a library lending program at the school. Both projects will undergo a consultative step with Asturias staff and students before being implemented on the ground in Guatemala during our upcoming service learning trip in May 2012. During this trip, 18 students and professionals will meet in Guatemala to complete service work at the school, while also learning about educational practices and social justice in Guatemala. My involvement with the Asturias Academy has led to personal research interests into the popular education and the educational concepts of Paulo Friere related to libraries and literacy in the developing world. To find out more about LWB’s activities in Guatemala, or to learn how to get involved, visit our website: www.librarianswithoutborders.org

CANSIM and other products are free for everyone to access from their web site.

On February 1, 2012, self-serve standard products available on the Statistics Canada website—including CANSIM and census data products—will become free of charge.

Statistics Canada will maintain current pricing practices for products such as print publications, maps, CD-ROMs, and custom products and services.

Licensing restrictions for the use of Statistics Canada data products will be removed.

For more information, contact Media Relations at 613-951-4636.

The above change does not affect the dissemination of survey data files (microdata files) under the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) license. These files can only be accessed through either ODESI or EQUINOX. Please contact Data & GIS Services at refdata@library.usask.ca if you have any questions.

USearch allows you to search for articles, books, images, etc. Let us show you how!

http://library.usask.ca/usearch

The APA Citation Style guide produced by the Music & Education Library has been updated! Print copies are available at the library or select the following link for the PDF document:
http://library.usask.ca/education/files/Guides/apa.pdf

You can also access the APA Citation Style LibGuide constructed by the University Library through the Library homepage LibGuides link in the "How do I?" tab or by selecting the following link:
http://libguides.usask.ca/apastyle

The Education & Music Library staff would like to thank all of you for your donations to the Food Bank. The support was incredible. Together we have contributed a wide variety of foods which will be shared with those in need. Our total donations "overflowed" two Food Bank bins. Best of the season to everyone!

The University Library participates in a province-wide program, which purchases access to a number of electronic information resources (e.g. Canada Info Desk). Please provide your feedback on the resources purchased by this initiative by taking a 5-10 minute online survey. Closes December 16th.

Study until 1:00 am on Fridays and Saturdays too!

From November 18th to December 21st, Safe Study will be available until 1:00 a.m. daily to support students studying for final exams.

Good luck with your final exams!!

When the Library is closed, you can log on from home to the Learning Commons computers and access your documents. To see what computers are available from the LC, check http://uremote.usask.ca.

These computers have a wide variety of programs including:

• Microsoft Office Professional 2007
  
• Visio – Flowcharts and Diagrams
  
• Microsoft Publisher – Marketing Materials
  
• Adobe Acrobat – Create PDF
  
• SPSS
  
• SAS, and
  
• other multimedia, web and library tools.
  

View this video guide to see how to set this up from home.

"Falling for Henry" at the Art Alcove at McNally Robinson
Thursday, November 17 - 7:30 pm.

Beverley Brenna is in the Department of Curriculum Studies, College of Education.

"The Cellophane Sky: Jazz Poems"
Jeff Park, Curriculum Studies College of Education

Is your copy legal? Copyright guidelines change Sept. 1, 2011 at the U of S.
See Library staff for more information.

Carolyn Doi has joined the staff of the Education & Music Library. Carolyn was most recently a liaison librarian with the Marvin Duchow Music Library at McGill University. Prior to this she worked with music collections at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Carolyn received her MLIS from McGill University in 2010, and has a Bachelor of Music degree in music history from the University of Victoria and a Diploma of Music in piano performance and pedagogy from Camosun College.

Sept. 6th : 8:00 to 5:00
Sept. 7th : Regular hours resume

M to T - 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
F - 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sat. - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sun. - closed

*All library hours subject to revision

Photo ID cards available Room 280, Administration Building
Aug 15 - Sept 23. Monday to Friday: 8:30 to 4:30.

Mark your calendars! Orientation dates Thursday, August 18 and Friday, August 19.
9-10 A.M. Quance Theatre.

Mon.-Fri.- 8:30am-4:30pm
Sat. & Sun. - closed
(beginning July 4)

Farewell after 9 1/2 years with the Education & Music Library.
Thank you Richard and best of luck!

We’ve updated our Learning Commons desktop computers … Microsoft Office 2010 and the operating system is now Windows 7.

When the Library is closed, the LC computers are added to a pool of computers which are accessible remotely. For more information and instructions on how to remote access, click here http://library.usask.ca/howto/URemote_LC.php