Two Writers-in-Residence! One Unforgettable Evening!

Thursday February 14, 2008 @ 7 p.m.
Speaker’s Corner, Queen’s Learning Commons Stauffer Library
Free Refreshments!

Jeanette Lynes

• 2008 Writer-in-Residence, Queen’s Department of Women’s Studies
• Poet laureate of the Nova Scotia NDP
• Co-editor of the Antigonish Review

Billeh Nickerson

• 2008 Queen’s Writer-in-Residence
• Co-editor of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets
• Born February 14

Celebrate inquiry-based learning at the
2nd Annual I@Q Undergraduate Research Conference, March 6-7, 2008 in the Queen’s Learning Commons, Stauffer Library. David McDonald, Director, Global Development Studies, will deliver the keynote address titled “Research as Activism (Whether You Like it or Not)” at 9:30 am on Thursday, March 6. Come and support undergraduate research at Queen’s. All are welcome! Full program at www.iatq.ca.

Do you study in the Learning Commons?

Do you attend workshops in the Learning Commons?

Would you like to win an iPod Shuffle?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then attend a Focus group session on TODAY March 28 at 12 pm or 3pm (they are 1 hour each and food/refreshments will be provided).

Once you attend the focus group, you will be entered in a draw for an iPod Shuffle.
If you want to attend a focus group session, please email the Learning Commons Coordinator (soinin@post.queensu.ca)

For more information about Inquiry @ Queen’s please go to the website at: http://www.queensu.ca/iatq/

For the conference program, please go to:

http://library.queensu.ca/inforef/inquiry.pdf 

or email: iatq@queensu.ca

or call: 613.533.3309

We are looking for a few students who would be willing to work in the Queen’s Learning Commons from September 2007-April 2008. We have extended the deadline from February 28 to March 5 at 4:30 p.m.
Here is the link for all the information: http://library.queensu.ca/libdocs/employment.htm

The QLearn Certificate, offered by the Queen’s Learning Commons, is a voluntary program geared to strengthening students’ learning, writing, research and technological skills.
If you attend 2 workshops from Learning and Research Services (the Library), 2 from Learning Strategies Development, 2 from the Writing Centre, 1 from Library Services for Students with Disabilities and 1 from the QLC Student Assistants, between now and March 2007, you will receive a QLearn Certificate.
When will you receive the certificate? In March 2007, we will invite those who completed the certificate program to a colloquium.

We will keep you posted.

• For more information about the Library, QLC Student Assistants, and Library Services for Students with Disabilities workshops and to register go to:http://library.queensu.ca/inforef/workshop.htm
• For Learning Strategies Development workshops go to: http://www.bewell-dowell.org/sos/workshops_index.html To register for the Learning Strategies Development workshops, go to the Learning Commons Information Desk.
• For the Writing Centre workshops go to: http://www.queensu.ca/writingcentre/workshops.html To register for the Writing Centre workshops, go to the Writing Centre desk.