UNITED WAY | MEDIA SURVEY |OLA PRESIDENT ELECT |OUR COLLECTION
Book Sale Raises Record Amount for United Way
SHELLEY HAWRYCHUKThrough its annual book sale, the Library raised a record $2,117.52 for the United Way Campaign at U of T Mississauga – more than triple last year's contribution.
Held in the CCT-HMALC link during the fall term, the two–day sale offered a diverse selection of books spanning a range of genres: mystery, crime, classics, romance, fiction and nonfiction, for example. New additions to the sale this year included DVDs, CDs and computer games. Staff and students eagerly crowded around the tables, browsing the collections and asking Library staff for recommendations.
Each year, donations of books flow from within the U of T Mississauga community. This year, the Library broadened its request for books to include staff members. As always, the U of T Mississauga community did not disappoint. As in previous years, Library staff – avid readers – contributed many books. Various others came from Novelties, the Library's reading collection of bestsellers. The Library updates this collection regularly, withdrawing dated items and donating them to the book sale in support of the campus' United Way campaign.
The organizing team thanks all who donated books and the Library staff who helped make the event such a success.
We Want to Hear from You
SIMONE LAUGHTONU of T Mississauga Media Survey
Instructors use a variety of methods to use, store and deliver digital content for teaching and learning activities associated with the academic courses they teach. U of T Mississauga instructors who currently use or plan to use digital content such as videos, audio files and/or images within their academic course(s), are invited to complete a survey regarding digital audio, video and images.
The anonymous aggregate data from the survey will inform the development of U of T Mississauga instructor functional requirements for use by campus departments and units (including Computing Services, Microelectronics, Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre and the U of T Mississauga Library) in planning for improvements to service. As well, this data will be shared for planning purposes with other units at U of T. The survey is still open and should take between 15 and 25 minutes to complete. To date, 33 faculty members have participated but we encourage all interested faculty to add their information by Friday, March 13, 2009 at 5 p.m.
This survey of instructor requirements for the creation and use of digital audio, video and images at U of T Mississauga can be found online at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=K4s5oihL8cK_2fbfc4e1lkDg_3d_3d. It is sponsored by the Learning Technology Team, Computing Services, Microelectronics, the Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre and the U of T Mississauga Library. Thank you in advance for participating. We sincerely appreciate your input to improve these services at U of T Mississauga.
Faculty Needs Survey – Technology and Teaching Tools
U of T's Resource Centre for Academic Technology (RCAT) is sponsoring a brief overview survey to gather background information on the types of learning technologies instructors may be interested in using within Blackboard. Input from U of T Mississauga instructors is welcome. The RCAT survey is located at: http://tech.med.utoronto.ca/surveys/surveyviewer2/index.php?surveyID=MQ0.
Chief Librarian named OLA President Elect
TRACY MONIZChief librarian Mary Ann Mavrinac is the Ontario Library Association's (OLA) new V.P.-President Elect 2010. Over this three-year term, which began Jan. 30, her role will evolve from vice-president to president and then past-president.
Photo by Stephen Uhraney"I am honoured to assume this role and excited to serve the broader library community," says Mary Ann. "This is a great opportunity to learn about and work with different library sectors and to see where, in combination, we can leverage our common goals — access to information, advocacy and education — in the interest of the citizens of Ontario." During her tenure, Mary Ann will represent the Association within its communities of interest; oversee OLA committees, executives and action groups; lead strategic planning for the Board of Directors to advance the Association's goals and objectives; and proactively report on and respond to issues impacting libraries province-wide.
The OLA is the largest and oldest continually-operating library association in Canada. In its 109 years, there have been two other presidents from the U of T Libraries — in 1902—04 and 1942—43.
Enriching Our Collection: New acquisitions support teaching, learning and research
SHELLEY HAWRYCHKThe U of T Mississauga Library continues to support teaching, learning and research by contributing to the acquisition of rich digital collections. The Adam Matthew Digital Collection and the Taylor & Francis journal back files collection are two significant examples of new purchases.
The Adam Matthew Digital Collection is a collection of unique manuscripts and rare printed sources that support scholarly research and undergraduate studies. The Nixon Years, 1969—1974, a digital archive of briefing papers and discussions papers around events such as the Vietnam War and the China - Nixon visits, is just one item within this excellent collection. Other unique primary documents included are the MacMillan Cabinet Papers, 1957—1963 and Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800—1920.
The purchase of the Taylor & Francis (T & F) multi-disciplinary collection contributes significantly to research at the University of Toronto. These back files, most covering back to volume 1 of the journal, include a broad-based collection of T&F journals, such as the Chemistry Online Archive with 43 journals dating from 1958, and the Politics, International Relations & Area Studies Online Archive with 85 journals whose titles begin at 1910. There are 11 Online Archives included in these back files which represent over 650 journals.
