Food for Fines Supports Local Food Banks

Queen’s Library is pleased to announce the 12th annual Food for Fines campaign which begins on Monday, March 9th at 9 am and continues until Friday, March 13th at 5 pm.

Since its inception, the campaign has raised several thousands of dollars in cash donations as well as many many barrels of food items for the Queen’s AMS Food Centre (formerly known as the Kingston Area AMS Food Bank) and the Partners in Mission Food Bank.

How does it work? 

The Library will gladly accept non-perishable FOOD ITEMS in lieu of payment for library fines (this does not cover any other library fees which may be owing). For each item you donate, your fines will be reduced by $1.00 to a maximum of $20.00 per person for the week.

You also have the option of donating your cash fine payments to a maximum of $20.00 per person (credit card and debit payments cannot be donated).

In addition, food or cash donations not applied to fines records are always welcome.

Where and when can you make your donations?

Food and cash may be donated between 9:00 am – 5:00 pm at any of the following Circulation Desks:

• Stauffer Library
• Bracken Library
• Education Library or Teacher Resource Center
• Engineering and Science Library
• Law Library

Which food items make acceptable donations?

Suggested donations:

• baby food
• soup
• side dishes
• canned juice
• canned meats, fish, vegetables or fruit
• evaporated milk
• peanut butter
• crackers
• rice, pasta, pasta sauce
• cereals
• beans

We cannot accept the following items:

• “junk” food
• fresh food, home-made food, or bulk food
• dented or rusted cans
• damaged items
• open packages
• packages with expired dates

Commerce students Gordon Giang and Lisa Nguyen have set up camp in the Stauffer loggia for the fourth annual Live-in for Literacy event.  From Friday, January 16 through Monday, January 26, they will remain in the library 24 hours a day, with only five minutes of every hour permitted for bathroom or other necessary breaks.

The students are raising funds to support the work of Room to Read, a non-profit organization that partners with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries, creating local language children’s literature, constructing schools, providing education to girls and establishing computer labs.  This year’s campaign will support the construction of nine school libraries in India.

Initiated at Queen’s University in 2005 by the DREAM (Discover the Reality of Educating All Minds) student club, the Live-in for Literacy event has expanded to seven university libraries across Canada.  Visit www.liveinforliteracy.com to view real-time webcam coverage from each of the locations and to learn more about the campaign.

October 14, 2008 marks the first Open Access Day – an initiative of three important organizations central to advocating for more openness in scholarship and research: SPARC, the Public Library of Science, and Students for FreeCulture.

• Not sure what “Open Access” is all about?   Read more
• What about a Canadian context to Open Access?  Read more

Stay tuned for news of events that Queen’s Library will be hosting on the topic of Open Access and scholarly communication in the near future!

Jordan Special Collections and Music Library is pleased to announce the launch of a new exhibit in the Library: Palladio in Print – An Exhibition of Books from Queen’s University Library and Private Collectors in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andrea Palladio.

The exhibit, which opens from 4-5:30 pm on March 27, 2008, will continue through to October 31, 2008.

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

Help the Library select a new catalogue interface! Three vendors will be presenting their systems to Library staff and users next week. Members of the Queen’s community are cordially invited to attend the demos and provide their feedback to the Library’s Next Generation Catalogue Working Group.

Monday, November 19, 9:30-11:30
AquaBrowser
Stauffer Library Room 121 (Seminar Room)

Tuesday, November 27, 9:30-11:30
OCLC WorldCat Local
Watson Hall Room 517

Thursday, November 29, 9:30-11:30
Bibliocommons
Stauffer Library Room 121 (Seminar Room)

Please RSVP to Val Knapp (knappv@queensu.ca) if you plan to attend any of the sessions.

In celebration of Islamic History Month Canada, the Engineering and Science Library has set up a science-related book display on the first floor (one floor above entry).

To mark this month, the Kingston Committee for Islamic History Month and the Islamic Society of Kingston, are organizing several events

On October 26th, 7:00 pm Dr. Seyyid Hossein Nasr, Professor Emeritus of George Washington University will speak on “The Interconnections of Islamic Art, Science and Spirituality” in Chernoff Hall Auditorium.

Other events and contact information are listed here .

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)

The 10th annual Food for Fines campaign has just wrapped up and here are the results:

Queen’s University students, faculty, staff and library patrons donated 12 full barrels of food and an additional $900.00 in cash.

Both the food items and the cash have been divided between the Queen’s AMS Food Bank and the Kingston area Partners in Mission Food Bank.

The Queen’s community’s support for our annual event has been outstanding. Thank you, everyone!