Articles tagged with: Virtual Book Display

• National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

  Monday, September 29, 2025 | By Connor Wilkes

  

  On September 30, we recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.  

  Learn more about the impact of residential schools by exploring our newly updated virtual book display, a mixture of print titles, ebooks, and streaming video.

  Image credit: The Survivors’ flag was designed during six weeks of consultation, discussion and collaboration with Survivors from across Canada. Inuit, Mi’kmaq, Atikamekw, Cree, Ojibway, Dakota, Mohawk, Dene, Nuu-chah-nulth, Secwepemc, Métis Survivors brought the flag to life by sharing their thoughts, ideas and lived experience to identify the important symbolism you see. The NCTR (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation) ensured the Survivors’ wishes and ideas were conveyed to Vincent Design to complete the flag.

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

• Gettin’ outdoors

  Friday, May 30, 2025 | By Connor Wilkes

  

  In honor of the start of summer and the spirit of going outdoors during the warm days ahead, this month’s featured collection is all about nature and “The Great Outdoors”. Reconnect and rediscover nature by grabbing one of the books off of the Featured Collection shelf at the Matheson Learning Commons. From bird watching, foraging, plant identification and hiking, there is a little bit of something for everyone! The collection also features a series of eBooks and several film and video resources as well.

  We would also like to take this opportunity to highlight the NaturePlus Pass. The NaturePlus pass gives you access to a dozen conservation areas and parks across Niagara courtesy of the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority. NaturePlus passes are available at the Ask Us Desk!

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

• Breaking down barriers through learning: accessibility in higher education

  Tuesday, May 27, 2025 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  Brock Library thanks Mark Castrodale, Student Accessibility Case Manager in the Student Wellness and Accessibility Centre for this exhibit and blog post. Visit the display in the Matheson Learning Commons until June 27. A featured collection of supporting literature is available through Omni.

  Access to education is a fundamental right for all persons. “Access is not just a word that indicates a lack of inclusion; it is also a way of perceiving, talking, and acting…As a perception, as talk and conduct, as a form of consciousness, access leads us to ask how access can be an interpretive move that puts people into different kinds of relations with their surroundings. Anything said about access can be read for how it reflects a host of questions: Who has access? Access to where? Access to what? When?” (Titchkosky, 2011, p.13). As such, access to higher education represents a collective responsibility, and ethical imperative. Considering issues of access can enhance the quality of education, deepen curriculum and pedagogy, and open paths for often marginalized persons to meaningfully participate and engage in teaching and learning opportunities. While there are advisable practices to improving access, accessibility in higher education represents an ongoing process, and a shared journey.

  Reference:
  Titchkosky, T. (2011). The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning. U of Toronto Press.

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

• In the Garden

  Thursday, May 01, 2025 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  This month the Library presents you with a seasonal selection of titles designed to give some garden inspiration.

  In the Garden includes books on growing and pruning plants and vegetables, soil science, and attracting birds, butterflies and bees to your garden. Titles on the history and economics of gardens, medicinal plants, insects, and fungi round out the collection.

  Browse and borrow the print items located next to the Ask Us desk and view online titles.

   

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

• Know your Pride flags: celebrating Brock Pride Week

  Friday, March 21, 2025 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  Brock Library is joining in campus-wide celebrations of 2SLGBTQIA+ Pride this week with an exhibit focused on the dozens of flags representing the diversity of Pride. 

  From March 21 through 28, we invite you to view Know your Pride Flags, a display documenting the history and identities which are expressed and celebrated through Pride flags. This informative exhibit reflects on Pride’s colourful past, the changing present, and the need for future progress. View it adjacent to the Badger Books collection on the main floor. 

  Wishing everyone a very happy Pride! 

  Tags: display, Events, Virtual Book Display
  Categories: Learning Commons, Main

• Sustainable Development Goals

  Friday, February 28, 2025 | By Evelyn Smith

  

  The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.

  This month, the Library presents a range of titles – print and electronic, which provide context, food for thought, and a path forward for all 17 goals. Browse them online, and in-person on the Library main floor.

  Learn more about the Brock University commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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

• Freedom to Read Week 2025

  Thursday, January 30, 2025 | By Amanda Emery

  

  In celebration of the 41st Freedom to Read Week (February 23 – March 1), we’ve put together a list of challenged and banned titles for you to read in print and online.

  Many of these controversial titles were challenged and have become classics. This includes titles such as:

  • Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
  • John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • Dubliners by James Joyce

  It is widely regarded that book bans and challenges are a thing of the past, however the number of challenges continues to rise. The Canadian Federation of Library Associations’ (CFLA) Intellectual Freedom Committee, along with the Book and Periodical Council’s Freedom of Expression Committee, developed an annual survey to track challenges within Canadian public libraries. This survey began in 2007 and provides access to challenges libraries have faced to items in their collections, and to displays, programs, room usage, and computer access.

  Freedom to Read Week is an annual event which highlights intellectual freedom and encourages Canadians to defend their right to read, write, and publish freely. Browse all of the featured titles and more on the display next to the Ask Us desk in Matheson Learning Commons, or view eBooks online.

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

• Fresh Start

  Thursday, January 02, 2025 | By Amanda Emery

  

  Welcome to a new year, new term, new chapter!

  Embrace a fresh start and explore books in this featured collection that focus on overcoming burnout, getting organized, mindfulness, health eating, wellness, and more.

  • Read the newly published Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, which helps people pursue meaningful accomplishment and avoid being overloaded.
  • Explore Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga’s The Courage to be Disliked and ask yourself if happiness is something you choose for yourself.
  • Do you use to-do lists? Check out Eat That Frog! and learn how to structure your task lists and defeat procrastination.

  Browse all of these titles and more on the display next to the Ask Us desk in Matheson Learning Commons, or view eBooks online.

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

• Crime and Consequence

  Tuesday, December 03, 2024 | By Amanda Emery

  

  Do you have a curiosity for true crime? Are you interested in learning about justice and the legal system? Check out some of the mysterious and fascinating stories in December’s Featured Collection of books.

  • Read about the notorious ‘Georges’ communities of British Columbia and their reputation as Canada’s most dangerous city prior to World War I.
  • Explore the newly published Outlaw Bikers as Organized Crime, providing research on outlaw bikers and clubs from all over the world.
  • If you are interested in cross-border organized crime, read up on the millennial mobsters who brought chaos and the cartels to the Canadian underworld.

  You can browse the Crime and Consequence collection by visiting the book display next to the Ask Us desk in Matheson Learning Commons, or view the eBooks online.

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

• International Education Week, 2024

  Monday, November 18, 2024 | By Amanda Emery

  

  Explore this curated collection of books and eBooks focusing on international education and studying abroad. International Education Week (IEW) is celebrated globally on the third week of November each year. IEW highlights the importance of a globally oriented learning experience and showcases the impact that international education has on learning, research, and community.

  Brock International Education Week events, held November 18-22, are great opportunities to get involved, expand your knowledge, and connect with the world.

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