We are very pleased to welcome Mary Wong as our new Killam Library Circulation/Stack Maintenance Assistant. Mary began working here on March 10.
Originally from Hong Kong, Mary grew up and went to high school in Amherst, Nova Scotia, and moved to Halifax in 2005. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree [...]
If you’ve already completed our LibQUAL+ Lite survey–THANK YOU! if you haven’t, this is your last chance to tell us how we’re doing and suggest ways we can make the Dal Libraries better. Give us 6 - 8 minutes of your time and you could win one of many great prizes, including dinner for two [...]
The stats for Week One of the Dal Night Owls project speak for themselves: students want to burn the post-midnight oil at the library! The numbers just kept increasing from Sunday March 8 through Thursday March 12.
Sunday - 27
Monday - 43
Tuesday - 67
Wednesday - 81
Thursday - 83
Bypass long lineups at the Killam Circulation Desk by checking out and renewing books yourself. Try the new self-check unit next to the Circulation Desk, and let us know what you think. If you’re registered for BARA (Borrow Anywhere Return Anywhere) you can renew stuff from other libraries here too!
The Dalhousie Libraries are very pleased to announce that Sarah Jane Dooley, Reference & Liaison Librarian/Promotion & Outreach Coordinator at the Sexton Design & Technology Library, has been promoted to Librarian 3, appointment without term. Congratulations Sarah Jane, well done!
The Robert Pope Foundation has given the Kellogg Library a substantial donation for the acquisitions of books in the medical humanities. This will allow the Library to build its collection in the areas of medicine in art and literature and history of medicine. This collection of materials will help support the very active Medical Humanities [...]
The Kellogg Library has purchased the Nursing and Allied Health Source database through Proquest using its annual givings fund. This database provides full text journals, evidence based resources, and dissertations to support the study of the many aspects of nursing or the allied health professions, including physical therapy, radiography, dietetics, [...]
A detailed index for the complete content of all years of the Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin, v.1(1922)-v.66(1987) and the Nova Scotia Medical Journal, v.67(1988)-v.72(1993) has been added to the Kellogg Library website. This journal is a rich treasure trove of material concerning the history of medicine in Nova Scotia and the Maritime Provinces. Now the [...]
Dalhousie Libraries have thousands of e-books in its collection, but they are under-utilized. Ms. Gail Fraser, Head of Acquisitions at the Kellogg Library, recently had an article published in Doody’s Electronic Review Service. She explains some of the issues unique to e-books and suggests some ways to increase the use of these resources.
Read her article [...]
Ian Colford, our Collections Librarian and author of the wildly successful story collection Evidence (see our post on this) has spent his sabbatical completing a novel, which has just been accepted for publication. Ian says:
“Porcupine’s Quill is scheduling my new novel for publication for fall 2011. The tentative title is “The Crimes of Hector Tomás.”
I [...]
