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Miriam Toews reading on Nov 9

Humber Libraries welcomes award winning author and freelance journalist, Miriam Toews, to read from her most recent work, The Flying Troutmans.

The Flying Troutmans is the winner of the 2008 Rogers Writers’ Trust
Fiction Prize. Miriam is the author of three previous novels, including
A Complicated Kindness (winner of the 2004 Governor’s General Award for fiction), and one work of non-fiction: Swing Low: A Life.

Date and Time: Monday, November 9th, 12 noon - 1:30 pm

Location: North Campus, 7th Semester (beside the Food Emporium)

The reading is open to all Humber College and University of Guelph-Humber students, faculty and alumni.

Coffee and cookies will be provided.

Media Literacy Week

Media Awareness Network (MNet) and the Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF) are joining together to host Canada's fourth annual Media Literacy Week, November 2-6, 2009.

This year's theme – Media Literacy in the Digital Age – will emphasize the multiple literacy skills needed by today's youth for accessing, evaluating, repurposing, creating and distributing media content.

"Students need a whole new skill set to successfully navigate media content in the digital age," explains CTF President Emily Noble. "Although young people navigate easily through various media, they still require guidance and mentorship to develop the necessary critical thinking skills for active and engaged online citizenship."

Go to http://www.medialiteracyweek.ca for details.

Welcome back

We've been busy preparing for the new school year.

See the Fall newsletter for details on our services that you can share with your students.

New Website

Check out our new website at http://library.humber.ca

We'd like your thoughts on the site and its navigation. Interested? Please email Lisa DiBarbora at lisa.dibarbora@humber.ca for details.

Don't Know Jack???

If you missed us at Showcase on Thursday, May 28 - we were promoting our new LibGuides. Pictured here are Lisa DiBarbora, Virtual Services Librarian and Mark Bryant, Reference & Information Literacy Librarian. Lisa was a LibGuide and Mark was Captain Jack Sparrow. The message - if your students "don't know jack" check out our new LibGuides.

Contact your liason librarian if you would like to have a library resource specific web 2.0 LibGuide created for your class.

Check them out for yourself at http://libguides.humber.ca/

Humber Libraries Health Sciences Librarian Nancy Pierobon participates in ORLN conference

In 2001 a group of Ontario college and university librarians met to establish the Ontario Learning Resources for Nursing (OLRN) group. Through this group's efforts, a comprehensive package of Nursing literature resources (e-journals/databases) was established to serve the educational needs of Bachelor of Nursing students in collaborative programs across Ontario.

Representatives from the OLRN group met in late 2009 and established a committee to review efficacy of the content, access and use of these resources. Nancy Pierobon, Health Sciences Librarian, was appointed a member of this sub-committee. She met with members from the University of Toronto, Nipissing University, Conestoga College, McMaster University, and the Bibliocentre during this past winter to; devise, disseminate, and review results of a Nursing resources survey; suggest new resources for the collaboration partners; and plan a conference to discuss "Collaboration, Scholarship and Inspiration" in Nursing education in Ontario. The conference was held on May 12th at the University of Toronto.

Deans, Associate/Assistant Deans, professors, and librarians from universities and colleges across Ontario met to discuss, among other topics:
- access to Nursing literature resources
- theoretical/research issues in Nursing education
- educational/teaching technologies,
- information literacy/fluency
- theoretical issues in Nursing educational collaboration
- collaboration between faculty and librarians

For more information check the conference's blog at http://olrn.blogspot.com/. All speakers' presentations will be available for viewing by the end of May 2009.

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