Have you made resolutions to try something new in 2022. Or, perhaps leave a habit behind? Get inspired by this collection of print and online titles with topics including mindfulness, healthy eating, positive aging, friendship, living sustainably and more.
Some titles are available in print. It’s quick and easy to place a hold for pickup.
Find additional #VirtualBookDisplay topics in Omni.
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James A. Gibson Library Student Assistants are beautifying our display cases with striking new exhibits on a variety of themes.
This month, the interior library cases are exhibiting the work of Chyna-Rose Bennett whose display “is all about plants, and plant care, as I have a love for plants and wanted to share it with the Brock community.” She notes that “plants have been a huge part of my life this past year, and they have really helped me cope with the isolation of the pandemic.”
The exhibit features tips on plant maintenance and care and features a selection of Brock books which will be available to borrow when the display ends at the end of the month.
Stop in and view the exhibit which runs until the holiday break. Many thanks to Chyna-Rose.
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As we approach the end of term, the Library along with colleagues in A-Z Learning Services and Student Wellness and Accessibility Services are keen to support Brock students completing final assignments and preparing for exams.
We’ve highlighted a number of resources and tips along with links to research guides, ways to contact us, and stress-relieving diversions in an online booklet this year. We hope you enjoy it and share it with friends.
A-Z Learning Services has excellent guides available to help you with:
Learning Skills Specialists are also running several online drop-in study sessions that you can visit to study with others, or get help on a specific assignment or question.
Student Wellness and Accessibility Services offer unique sessions related to exam readiness and combatting test stress.
Student mental health and wellness go hand-in-hand with academic success and are the focus of a new Library wellness webpage ready for you to explore.
Finally, if you could use a little motivation download one of our new phone and desktop wallpaper designs. ⬇️
For your phone:
For your desktop:
November 13-19, 2021 marks Transgender Awareness Week in Canada.
This selection of books and e-books represent a diversity of genres and topics by trans authors and features new non-fiction on timely topics from a transgender lens. Many of the authors spotlighted are Canadian, including Gwen Benaway, Vivek Shraya and Ivan Coyote.
You can view all our thematic collections in Omni via bit.ly/VirtualBookDisplay
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Course readings for the winter term are being processed at Brock University Library.
To ensure your students have access to their winter course materials, we encourage you to submit reading lists as soon as possible. Ideally by November 22, 2021.
An instructor self-serve option is also available, providing flexibility to instructors who wish to do this work themselves. All self-submissions will get a final check for copyright compliance, and will then be active for students.
A note about print reserve readings:
While we encourage instructors to continue using online alternatives, print items are accepted.
It is important for instructors to consider the element of risk in choosing to use print reserves for your course: If strict public health measures were to resume, these materials might be inaccessible for your students. Electronic readings have the benefit of being available to students no matter the changing public health measures.
Several alternatives to print resources are available including the creation of course-specific online packs. The Reserves team is ready to work with you to develop these for your students. More information about non-print options is available. Liaison Librarians are also available to help you identify alternate resources.
The E-Textbook Challenge.
Providing digital access to some textbooks may be hindered by the textbook publishers because most textbooks are not available to libraries in any format other than print. Most of the major textbook publishers — Pearson, Cengage, Houghton, McGraw Hill, Oxford University Press Canada Textbooks, Elsevier Imprints, Thieme — do not sell e-textbooks to libraries. This means that for courses that have adopted textbooks from these publishers, students who do not purchase the textbook have no alternative access to the textbook contents.
Questions? reserve@brocku.ca
After a long hiatus, we are happy to bring new thematic print book displays back to the Library. Our newest collection (next to the Ask Us desk in the James A. Gibson Library), features recent titles by Canadian authors. Please stop in and explore new books on climate change, decolonization, neuroscience, urban planning and more. There’s even a little fiction in the mix.
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Delve into titles that explore cannabis from inter-disciplinary perspectives. This collection is a mix of online and print titles.
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If you love to read, you may already know the many benefits of reading for fun. For instance, one 2009 study from the University of Sussex found that reading for just 6 minutes can significantly reduce stress! Reading also has the power to improve sleep, increase emotional intelligence, and enhance overall wellbeing.
Brock students are invited to sign up for a Wellness Book Club that will run virtually during the month of November. Hosted by Humanities Liaison Librarian, Justine Cotton, the details are as follows:
As part of the Club, students will also have the option of participating in a research study exploring the impact of reading on stress levels in university students.
Sign-up now or email jcotton@brocku.ca for more details about the Club and/or the research study (REB# 21-058-COTTON).
*please note Brock University’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for On-Campus
Over the summer, Brock librarians were hard at work refreshing our digital learning offerings. The result is https://brocktnl.github.io.
These asynchronous, self-paced learning objects focuse on important information literacy skills. Students looking to learn more about how to use library resources to succeed in their studies will benefit from lessons, such as how to “Create a Search Strategy”. Alternatively, students can set off on a more in-depth learning “Path,” such as the “Research Fundamentals” Path.
Instructors can easily import these lessons into their Sakai page for immediate use in their course pages. Contact cmurgu@brocku.ca if you require assistance.
We will feature a different lesson every Tuesday, beginning October 26th until November 30th. Watch for #TipTuesday on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
More lessons are in development, so check back soon.
The Brock University Library will join in the global celebrations of International Open Access Week with two workshops highlighting how researchers can maximize the impact of their scholarship.
Open Access refers to free, immediate online access to research. The theme of International Open Access Week is: It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity. This theme aligns with the recent UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, which centres the need to “embrace a diversity of knowledge, practices, workflows, languages, research outputs and research topics”. Open science, and open access publishing, can advance structural equity by ensuring equitable sharing of research outputs from scholars in both developed and developing nations.
The Library strives to advance equitable open access practices by providing infrastructure to disseminate Brock’s research outputs via the Brock Digital Repository and Scholarly Journals at Brock, through education and advocacy, and by making financial investments to support a variety of open access platforms and projects.
“During Open Access Week, we invite everyone in the Brock community to reflect on how they can break down barriers in how knowledge is created and shared,” says Elizabeth Yates, Liaison and Scholarly Communication Librarian. “And we hope that these workshops will spur conversations and actions which can help all of us advance equity – both individually and in our academic systems and communities.”
More Open Access Week events from around the world can be found here.
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