Generation Zapped investigates the potential dangers of prolonged exposure to Radio Frequencies (RF) from wireless technology; it’s effects on our health and well-being, as well as the health and development of our children.

Beginning with Elsie Knott, the first female chief in Canada, Cora Voyageur presents the lives of sixty-four of the ninety women chiefs who have assumed the traditionally male role of elected First Nations leadership. 

March 8 is International Women's Day, a day to recognize women's achievements, reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.

The Library has many resources highlighting women's rights and accomplishments. Here are a few titles:

• eBook: Women's Rights: Reflections in Popular Culture
• Video: #MeToo: How a Hashtag Launched a Revolution
• eBook: Feminist Philosophies of Life - eBook
• Print Book: The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education

Here are some sites to learn more about the history and purpose of the day as well as resources on how to take part:

• Organization Homepage: International Women's Day
• Government of Canada: International Women's Day
• United Nations: International Women's Day

After the shock decision to leave the EU in 2016, what can we learn about our divided and increasingly unequal society and the need to listen to each other?

This engaging book addresses the causes and implications of Brexit, exploring this moral anger against political elites and people feeling estranged from a political process and economic system that no longer expressed their will.

Every February, Canadians are invited to participate in Black History Month festivities and events that honour the legacy of Black Canadians, past and present. For 2018, the theme of the Government of Canada’s Black History Month campaign is Black Canadian Women: Stories of Strength, Courage and Vision.

Here is just a sampling of resources available through the Library to help you learn more.

• Viola Desmond's Canada : a history of blacks and racial segregation in the promised land (Book)
• Living in Hope: Viola Desmond's Story (Audio)
• Moving Beyond Borders : A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora (eBook)
• Naturally woman: the search for self in Black Canadian women's literature (Book)
• Black women in Canada : past and present (Book)
• 100 accomplished Black Canadian women (Book)

Did you know know that the Library now lends technology and supplies?

Items to borrow:

• Laptops (both campuses)
• Dry erase markers (both campuses)
• Phone chargers (North)
• Portable plugs (Lakeshore)
• Mac adapters (Lakeshore)
• HDMI cables (North)

Come to the circulation desk to check them out.

Discover our newest online subscription - ASM Handbooks.

These handbooks are comprehensive guides to the structure, properties, processing, performance, and evaluation of metals and nonmetallic engineering materials.

Ojibwe stories from the Upper Berens River: A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in conversation is about the lives of four generations of Anishinaabeg along the Berens River in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario.

Check out the book now.