Articles tagged with: Omni

• Omni: the power of collaboration

  Thursday, September 15, 2022 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  Thanks to the Library’s partnership in Omni, Brock students, faculty, and staff have access to over 25.3 million books from 18 universities in Ontario.

  Fanny Dolansky, Brock professor in the Department of Classics and Archaeology, shared “I really couldn’t do my research or teaching without the support of the library and having more access to print (as well as digital) resources and efficient, reliable access, makes a huge difference! Omni and other changes at the library have revolutionized student and faculty research.”

  Over the past twelve months, Brock researchers used Omni to borrow approximately 2,000 books! In the same period, Brock Library loaned out over 1,700 books to researchers at other Omni institutions.

  To request an item in Omni, login to your library account and perform a search. Omni searches across all 18 partners for that item and when it finds an available copy, you’ll be able to place a request. You can request to pick up the book at Brock or your choice of partner library. You will be notified when your book is ready for pickup and you will enjoy the same 120-day loan period.

  Search Omni to find resources that support your coursework, as well as featured collections on a variety of themes.

  Tags: Faculty, Graduate students, Omni, Services, Staff, Students
  Categories: Main

• Omni partnership pays dividends

  Monday, August 30, 2021 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  Brock University students, staff, and faculty can now use Omni to request shared physical resources quickly and easily from across all 16 Omni partner institutions, a collection of nearly 23.5 million resources.

  Read more about this innovative collaboration in the Brock News and learn how to make your request in just a few clicks.

  Questions? libhelp@brocku.ca

  Tags: Faculty, Omni, Our Collections, Services, Staff, Students
  Categories: Main

• Omni feedback form remains available

  Wednesday, May 05, 2021 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  Thank you to everyone who participated in our Omni Feedback Survey! Participants had the option to enter a draw for a $50 Amazon gift card.  The contest closed Friday April 30^th at noon and one lucky winner was randomly selected.  Congratulations to Cedric Junor, a 2^nd year film studies student!

  Feedback from the survey will help us learn how Omni has been helpful in your research journey as well as identify areas that could be improved.  As Omni is a consortia search tool with 15 other universities in Ontario, the anonymous feedback we received will contribute to the overall experience for all schools. Although the contest has closed, the survey still remains available to anyone else in the Brock community who would like to share their feedback.  We always appreciate learning from our users.

  Share your feedback now.

   

  Tags: Omni, Services
  Categories: Main

• Submit your Omni feedback today!

  Monday, April 19, 2021 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  Since December 2019, students, faculty and staff have been using Omni, Brock University’s new Academic Search Tool, to support their research needs.  How has your experience been?

  The Library is seeking feedback from all members of the Brock community.  We want to hear from YOU: the good, the bad, the ugly.  You can tell all in this short survey.  We’ll be sharing your anonymous feedback with Omni partners to inform future modifications that seek to improve the user experience for all our Omni schools.

  BONUS: All survey respondents have the option to enter a draw for a $50 Amazon gift card. Enter by noon on April 30^th.

  Share your Omni feedback now.

   

   

  Tags: Faculty, Feedback, Omni, Staff, Students
  Categories: Main

• Featured Collection: Anti-Black Racism and White Privilege

  Wednesday, June 03, 2020 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  We are in the midst of a civil rights uprising.

  As Brock’s Director of Human Rights and Equity, Leela Madhava Rau notes, “Systemic racism, and specifically anti-Black racism, is being named as a root cause of inequities with which people have been living for centuries… People are in the streets demanding nothing less than total change: not only the ability to live their lives without the ever-present threat of violence, but the opportunity for everyone, regardless of identity, to participate fully and equitably in societal structures.”

  Many are stating the desire to learn, listen, read, and reflect. To that end, we are highlighting a selection of books, ebooks, and streaming videos on the topic of ‘Anti-Black Racism and White Privilege’. While our print collection remains inaccessible at this time, we encourage you to seek out local booksellers and public libraries.

   

  Tags: Omni, Our Collections, Virtual Book Display
  Categories: Featured Collections, Main

• Making the move from print to digital book displays

  Wednesday, May 13, 2020 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  Something we miss about being on-site is the opportunity to bring you monthly thematic book displays. We enjoy the creative outlet of curating them and, as the books fly off the shelves, we know you are reading our selections.

  Now that we are working at home, we’ve come up with a new plan to bring you virtual displays of e-book titles that you can read right now.

  Each month, we’ll share a link in our social media channels to a featured collection within Omni. First up for May, a collection of titles related to Food. It’s an eclectic grouping of titles around the business, chemistry, history, culture and psychology of food as well as food activism.

  We hope you look forward to each new collection and, find a title or two that pique your interest.

   

  Tags: Omni, Our Collections, Virtual Book Display
  Categories: Main

• Research made easy with Omni

  Tuesday, February 04, 2020 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  Just in time for the research crunch, we invite you to learn the tips and tricks of Omni, our new academic search tool. All students, staff, and faculty are invited to attend one of two hands-on workshops this week. Both sessions will be held in Matheson Learning Commons classroom A on

  • Tuesday, February 4 at 2 p.m., and
  • Thursday, February 6 at 10:30 a.m.

  Learn to:

  • discover collections at Brock and the 13 other partner institutions.
  • refine search results by availability, resource type, focused subjects, library collection, and more.
  • browse a virtual bookshelf using Virtual Browse.
  • follow citations from references within an article, and those that cite it.
  • pin, collate, and tag materials in your ‘favourites’ file for easy retrieval.
  • cite, email, and export to a citation tool to manage your information.

  You are welcome to just drop-in to a session however, students will earn CWC credit if they register first on ExperienceBU

  Tags: Faculty, Omni, Staff, Workshops
  Categories: Main

• New year, new academic search tool

  Monday, January 06, 2020 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  Come explore Omni, our new academic search tool. All students, staff, and faculty are invited to attend one of three hands-on workshops this month.

  Learn to:

  • discover collections at Brock and the 13 other partner institutions.
  • refine search results by availability, resource type, focused subjects, library collection, and more.
  • browse a virtual bookshelf using Virtual Browse.
  • follow citations from references within an article, and those that cite it.
  • pin, collate, and tag materials in your ‘favourites’ file for easy retrieval.
  • cite, email, and export to a citation tool to manage your information.

  You are welcome to just drop-in to a session however, students will earn CWC credit if they register first on ExperienceBU

  Tags: Faculty, Omni, Staff, Students, Training & Development, Workshops
  Categories: Main, Uncategorised