photo courtesy Cheryl Hutton

Students in the International Studies in Global Health & Disability program  recently visited the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.   The six-week inaugural ISGHD program, which concluded on June 14, took place at the Bader International Study Centre, Herstmonceux Castle.

We are now accepting applications for a NON Work Study Bursary position in the Data and Government Information Centre in Lower Level, Stauffer Library for September, 2013 to April, 2014. Please note that a Work Study Bursary is NOT required.
For more information:
Visit our Student Employment website.

Access has been restored to the ALPSP Learned Journals Collection

Queen’s Library is launching a new e-reserve service beginning with the 2013 Fall Term.

The Library’s e-reserve service offers a convenient, one-stop tool that facilitates students’ access to both electronic and print course materials from within their Learning Management System (LMS). As part of this service, the Library will help instructors manage student access to course materials by either linking to or scanning and posting electronic copies in the Library’s collection. Additionally, the Library will ensure that course materials comply with both copyright and accessibility requirements. In 2013 the service will be available for instructors using the Moodle LMS. In future, the Library will expand the service through support for the Desire2Learn and MedTech learning management systems, and for instructors who do not use a learning management system.

Instructors wishing to join a waiting/mailing list to find out more and to get early access to the system can email copy.right@queensu.ca.

For more information about our e-reserve system and services, please see: http://library.queensu.ca/ereserves.

Journals from the ALPSP Learned Journals Collection are temporarily unavailable to all OCUL libraries. The provider is working on the problem and we will post an update once access has been restored.

Last weekend ISGHD students and faculty travelled from the Bader International Study Centre to Geneva, where they visited the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Red Cross, and the United Nations Palais des Nations.

Access to IEEE Xplore via the WebProxy has been restored.

On May 10-11 ISGHD students and faculty travelled from the Bader International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle to Oxford University.  Read about their field excursion to Sobell Hospice and to the Clinical Exercise & Rehabilitation (CLEAR) Unit.

The Library and Archives Master Plan (LAMP) Steering Group invites everyone in the Queen’s community to attend an open information session on Friday, April 26 at 11:00 in Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202. Attendees will learn more about the LAMP project including preliminary options that are being considered. The steering group’s planning partner, CS&P Architects, will give an overview of the work done to date, the feedback the group has received, and present the preliminary planning concepts and drawings for Stauffer and Douglas libraries. Visit the LAMP website to learn more about the project, to view the initial drawings and to share your feedback with the LAMP project team.

The Adaptive Technology Centre in the Queen’s Learning Commons has been featured in an article in the Kingston Whig-Standard. The article, entitled “Challenging, Rewarding, Fascinating,” notes that “The Adaptive Technology Centre is a library within a library that gives students with disabilities or special requirements a chance to learn in a way that meets their own needs.” Michele Chittenden, the Coordinator for Library Services for Students with Disabilities, speaks of the rewards of the work she and the ATC staff do in helping students, not only through converting materials into accessible formats, as library technician Carol Tennant does, and determining the best technologies to meet student needs, as adaptive technologist Andrew Ashby does, but by being a supportive and inviting environment for the students who use their services. The article notes that Queen’s Library was at the forefront of establishing services for students with disabilities and the service led to the Library receiving the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries award for innovation in 1994. Recently, Michele was named as a member of the Association of Research Libraries’ Working Group on Accessibility and Universal Design. ARL is an association of 125 research libraries across North America.