Articles tagged with: display

• Women, Water, and Words: An Exploration of Visual Culture in Niagara

  Tuesday, March 05, 2024 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  A new exhibit in the Library and at the Thistle entrance to the Matheson Learning Commons features a selection of items from Brock’s Archives & Special Collections chosen by Visual Arts students in VISA 2P90 (19th Century Visual Culture).

  Each student selected an item from the collection to research and present. There is a broad range of material in this exhibit–from whimsical sketches to advertisements and tourist material to photographs of architectural monuments–but they are all connected by a focus on the history of visual culture in Niagara. 

  We invite you to visit this intriguing exhibition until April 7.

   

   

   

   

   

  Tags: Archives and Special Collections, Course Collaboration, display, Students
  Categories: Archives, Featured Collections, Learning Commons

• Explore deep waters this March

  Friday, March 01, 2024 | By Amanda Emery

  

  Dive into Exploring Deep Waters, our latest collection of print and e-books.

  Advance your knowledge of oceanography with The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works. Learn the importance of watersheds and architecture through a design-research project with the Mekong, Mississippi, and Rhine river basins. Read expedition poems from Bronwyn Preece as she traverses into a remote area of Northern B.C. and journeys along rising rivers.

  From droughts to floods, Pacific to Atlantic, shoreline to tap, explore all of the ways water plays a role in our world.

  Tags: display, Our Collections, Virtual Book Display
  Categories: Featured Collections, Learning Commons

• Black History and African Heritage Month at Brock Library

  Monday, February 05, 2024 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  This month, as Brock celebrates African Heritage and Black History, the Library is hosting learning opportunities open to all.

  February 7 and 28 at 11am and 2pm: Join David Sharron, Brock University Archivist for a tour that illuminates the Black history of St. Catharines and Niagara through the University’s archival collections.

  February 8, 7pm: Join Archives of Ontario’s Archivist Melissa J. Nelson for a talk on the power and potential of Black archival collections. Melissa positions these collections as tools for empowerment that allow Black record creators to reclaim the historical narrative. This talk celebrates Black record creators who documented and passed on their life’s stories.

  February 12-March 1: Visit the Learning Commons exhibit cases to view Echoes of the African Great Lakes (Rwanda), an exhibit of artifacts curated by SOFIFRAN, a non-profit community organization, created in 2007 by French-speaking immigrant women living in the Niagara region and from various parts of the world.

  We are thankful to our partners, the Black Student Success Centre, SOFIFRAN, and Professor Jean Ntakirutimana, Modern Languages Literatures, and Cultures for their support.

  All month long, we invite you to browse and borrow from a special end-cap of Black authored popular fiction and non-fiction from our Badger Books collection. A virtual book display, Celebrating Black Voices and Sharing Black Stories, is freshly updated with new titles and available online.

  The Brock community is celebrating Black History Month and African Heritage Month with a full calendar of events and programming. See what’s going on and join in the celebrations.

  Tags: Archives and Special Collections, Black History Month, display, Events, Our Collections, Virtual Book Display
  Categories: Learning Commons, Main

• Freedom to Read Week, 2024

  Thursday, February 01, 2024 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  In celebration of Freedom to Read Week, we’ve created a featured collection of challenged and banned titles for you to read in print and online.

  Included in the featured collection are several titles by Canadian authors. Margaret Atwood finds many of her books banned in countries, school boards, and individual libraries around the globe. Her debut novel, The Edible Woman, and Surfacing are both early titles that were challenged or banned outside of Canada. The Handmaid’s Tale is one of Atwood’s most banned books and is continuously contested. In 2008, the book was challenged by a parent of a grade 12 student in Toronto. The following year a review panel of the Toronto District School Board recommended the novel be kept in the curricula.

  Some titles that have been banned in other countries have caused ripple effects in Canada. Maus, a graphic novel depicting the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman, was banned by a Tennessee school board in early January 2022. By the end of the month, the 1986 book was at the top of Amazon’s bestseller list and eventually sold out due to high demand. Libraries across Canada had readers lining up to borrow the title.

  Freedom to Read Week is an annual event which highlights intellectual freedom and encourages Canadians to actively defend their right to publish, read, and write freely. Originally founded by the Book and Periodical Council, it is celebrating its 40^th anniversary this year. Starting this year three additional organizations – Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian Urban Library Council, and the Ontario Library Association – will join to lead this campaign into the future.

  Tags: display, Our Collections, Virtual Book Display
  Categories: Featured Collections

• Exhibit: Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures

  Monday, January 29, 2024 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures welcomes you to browse through their latest exhibit in the Library and at the Thistle entrance to the Learning Commons. The display cases exemplify the unique cultures explored by MLLC students.

  Questions and comments are welcome. Please send them to: dbielicki@brocku.ca

   

   

  Tags: display
  Categories: Featured Collections, Learning Commons

• Wild Reads

  Tuesday, January 02, 2024 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  Explore the amazing world of animals with our latest collection of print and e-books.

  Go on a deep dive by reading Full Fathom 5000: the Expedition of the HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea. Learn the story of Najin and Fatu, the last two northern white rhinos, and the conservation efforts to save them. Take to the sky, and uncover the science of avian scent.

  You can find the print titles next to the Ask Us desk in the James A. Gibson Library. In addition to these wild reads, this month’s collection contains BBC and CBC videos which you can stream from anywhere.

  Tags: display, Our Collections, Virtual Book Display
  Categories: Featured Collections, Learning Commons

• Get out of this world at Brock Library

  Wednesday, December 06, 2023 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  Do you like to read about the unknown? Are you a fan of worldbuilding? Do extraterrestrials walk among us? If so, get cozy with an imaginative read. You can browse the Out of This World featured collection all December long!

  Tags: display, Our Collections, Virtual Book Display
  Categories: Featured Collections, Learning Commons

• Exhibit: Modern Languages, Literatures, Cultures

  Monday, October 30, 2023 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  As stated by Noam Chomsky: “Language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is”. The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures welcomes you to browse through the display showcasing the cultures that are explored in our courses that is currently mounted in the Library and Thistle corridor. Let your curiosity be piqued, ask the questions rooted in the history of these cultures, smile – and perhaps shiver, as Halloween is the theme of the current installation.

  Questions and comments are welcome. Please send them to: dbielicki@brocku.ca

   

  Tags: display
  Categories: Featured Collections, Learning Commons

• Treasures from the Shickluna Shipyard Dig.

  Tuesday, September 05, 2023 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  Back in 2018, a research team led by Brock University archaeologist and maritime historian Kimberly Monk received federal funding to excavate the Shickluna Shipyard site in downtown St. Catharines.  The team’s discoveries and insights form the basis of a stunning new display hosted in the Library and Learning Commons this fall.

  The exhibit is comprised of two parts which, when combined explore the evolving cultural landscape which we refer to as the Shickluna Shipyard site. The Changing Human Landscape on Twelve Mile Creek (displayed at the south entrance to the Learning Commons), sets the scene of the dig and characterizes the sites’ earliest occupants. Uncovering Historic Landscapes at the Shickluna Shipyard: A Multi-Component Archaeological Site is displayed inside the library, and explores the history of the site after 1891.

  Although the on-going project is focused on Shickluna, and the over 60 years of shipbuilding that took place at the site, the exhibit recognizes the breadth of human history that has shaped this landscape over time. The next phase of fieldwork will explore deeper and adjacent contexts. Follow the project, and new developments on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

  Stop by and view the exhibit which runs until October 16.

   

   

   

  Tags: Community Collaboration, display
  Categories: Featured Collections, Learning Commons

• Print and virtual collections in support of Indigenous History Month

  Friday, June 16, 2023 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  In June, we commemorate National Indigenous History Month to recognize the history, heritage and diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Canada.

  The Indigenous Collection at the south entrance to the Matheson Learning Commons features many new titles including Our Voice of Fire: Memoir of a Warrior Rising by Brandi Morin, Permanent Astonishment by Thomson Highway, and Run as One: My Story by Errol Ranville.

  More print and e-books as well as films by and about Indigenous Peoples in Canada are available in two recently updated Featured Collections via Omni.

  Beyond Library resources, the Brock and wider communities are invited to learn and participate in 20 workshops hosted by Hadiyaˀdagénhahs First Nations, Métis and Inuit Student Centre. Read more about them and get registration links in this article from the Brock News.

   

   

  Tags: display, Indigenous Collection, Our Collections
  Categories: Featured Collections, Learning Commons