Carleton University is hosting the 32nd McGraw-Hill Ryerson, National Teaching, Learning and Technology Conference, Feb. 20-22, 2008.
Proposals for one-hour presentations will be accepted until Friday, Jan. 11.
The conference is not limited to any specific discipline. For more information, see the conference website.
A representative from Knovel will present a pre-conference seminar on the Knovel Online Library Friday October 19, 10am to 11:30am, at the Munk Centre, University of Toronto. You are welcome to attend this seminar whether or not you are registered for the official conference.
The Knovel database is a large suite of scientific and engineering e-books, reference works and databases from a diverse list of well-known publishers.
One of the round tables at the upcoming ASEE Engineering Teaching and Learning Conference in Toronto is titled ‘Curriculum Directions and the Library’. We are planning for a lively discussion on the place that information literacy skills development should take within the engineering curriculum – please join us! Other round table themes include ‘Engineering Outreach: K-12′ and ‘Community Service Learning’. Details on the round tables as well as the full conference schedule are now available.
The inaugural issue of Advances in Engineering Education, a new journal published by ASEE, is now available. The journal’s mission “is to disseminate significant, proven innovations in engineering education practice, especially those that are best presented through the creative use of multimedia.”
This sounds like an excellent place to publish librarian-faculty collaborative work in the area of information literacy.
Given ASEE’s focus on the globalisation of engineering during the last ten years, and its recent attempts to expand and strengthen connections with the international community of engineering educators, I’m a little surprised that AEE’s board doesn’t have an international editor.
Mike White
Queen’s University
Registration is now open for the ASEE Saint Lawrence Section Conference at the University of Toronto on October 19-20. Registration fees are:
$155 member rate
$175 non-member rate
$20 student rate
Abstracts are still being accepted. See the website for additional details.
If you use esp@cnet as a teaching or research tool, the following might be of interest to you.
The EPO is running an online survey to gather feedback on what users find most and least useful about esp@cenet, and access to free patent information in general. The EPO has an excellent track record of listening to users, so don’t miss this opportunity to suggest improvements. For example, I’d like to have the ability to sort search results, download bib data to a spreadsheet or citation software, and better integration of the ECLA classification search.
Unfortunately, the survey designers forgot to include Canada in the list of countries that users may select to identify their location. A request for correction has been made.
Mike White, Queen’s University
The ASEE St Lawrence Section Meeting will take place October 19-20 at U of T. The meeting theme is Engineering Teaching and Learning Practices. Details are posted here.
This meeting provides a useful and relatively inexpensive opportunity for Ontario engineering librarians to meet and hear presentations from engineering educators and students.
It is also a useful opportunity for any interested librarians to make a presentation. Abstracts submissions are being accepted until July 16 at this site.
The American Society for Engineering Education is considering a proposal to create a Canadian Division as one of several initiatives designed to improve services to its Canadian membership. The proposal will be discussed at the upcoming ASEE annual conference in Honolulu, June 24-28. ASEE representatives will also be attending the CDEN/C2E2 meeting in Winnipeg in July to discuss ways of promoting greater collaboration and communication between American and Canadian engineering educators.
The proposals deadline for OLA is one week away and Gail Nichol, who is one of the OCULA organizers, has suggested that OELIG could consider submitting a proposal for a session or a roundtable. Any themes of interest out there?
Individuals can of course also submit session proposals.
Here are some details:
Call for Proposals
Submission Deadline – April 30th , 2007
Super Conference 2008
January 30 – February 2, 2008
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
What topics is OCULA looking for?
We are looking for presentations that reflect the challenging and exciting times in college and university libraries. This is a great opportunity to present your ideas, research or experience to your peers.
How do I submit a proposal?
If you have an idea for a session you want to PRESENT or ATTEND, please submit your idea to the OLA website .
To ensure that your submission does not get lost in the online universe, please also email the title of your submission to:
gail.nichol@utoronto.ca
An interesting new search portal:
Thirteen science and technology societies from across the world are set to launch scitopia.org, a free federated vertical search portal, in a bid to create more direct access to their collective content. The new portal, to be launched in June 2007, will enable users to explore the research most cited in scholarly work and patents in a single click.
Founding partners include the American Geophysical Union, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Electrochemical Society, IEEE, Institute of Physics Publishing, Optical Society of America, SPIE, Society of Automotive Engineers and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Other organisations will be invited to join as the project progresses.
Access to actual content will still of course be via institution subscriptions.
[excerpted from Knowledgespeak]
Scitopia news release: http://www.scitopia.org/images/scitopia-NR-4-12-07.pdf
-Cris Sewerin