Information Literacy Librarian Appointed

Pia Russell has been appointed Information Literacy Librarian beginning September 18, 2006 and is located in the McPherson Library. As Information Literacy Librarian Ms. Russell will provide leadership in developing instruction and information literacy programs in collaboration with faculty and subject librarians.

Ms. Russell earned her Master of Information Studies degree from The University of Toronto in 2004, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (with a concentration in Canadian Literature, History and Political Science) from The University of British Columbia and The University of Copenhagen. Ms. Russell is currently completing a Master of Education degree from The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at The University of Toronto.

ARTstor Training Workshop

There will be two training workshops on Friday, September 29th in Room 130 on
how to use an exciting new database.

ARTstor is a digital image database containing more than 400,000 images designed to enhance scholarship, teaching, and research. The images in ARTstor, from international museums and collections include painting, sculpture, photography, design and archaeology. However, ARTstor is not just about art, for almost every discipline can be enhanced by images.

Come and learn from ARTstor trainers how to search and view images online, and save them for use in classroom lectures and presentations, either online or off-line. Tools to create presentations using ARTstor images combined with those from other collections will also be demonstrated.

ARTstor: an introduction

DATE Friday, September 29, 2006
TIME 09:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
PLACE McPherson Library Classroom 130

Using images for presentations and classroom lectures for faculty and
teaching assistants

DATE Friday, September 29, 2006
TIME 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
PLACE McPherson Library Classroom 130

For more information contact:
Lynne Woodruff
Information Services Librarian, Fine Arts

Laptop Lending Now Available at McPherson Library

Need to get connected? Laptop lending is a new service offered at the McPherson Library loan desk.

Wireless laptops are available to UVic faculty, staff and students for 2-hour loans. Print and email files; save to CD, floppy, stick drive or UVic temp drive (Wallaby).

For further details, enquire at the main loan desk or find the information online (http://gateway.uvic.ca/top/laptop_lending.html)

Winners of the McPherson Library Bean Counting Contest!

For those of you who don't know, we had a Bean Counting Contest at the library's President's Day booth yesterday! Winners receive a water bottle, some candies, and a $5 copy card as their prize. There are 12 winners in
total:

Sandra Morris
Heather Davis
Pat Evans
Ryan Hill
Megan Purcell
Keith Holmes
Megan Edwards
Michelle Kalman
Rekha Chengkalath
Jeana Walker
Erika Brown
Megan Kilduff

Congratulations!