CultureGrams
Posted: March 27th, 2008An online database of primary and secondary source materials relating to world culture.
Library News March 2008
Nature – Now Online Back to 1869
Posted: March 27th, 2008Queen’s Library’s subscription to the online version of Nature now includes coverage of the entire journal back to its inception with Vol. 1, no. 1 (Nov. 4, 1869).
Palladio in Print: Jordan Library Exhibit, 27 Mar-31 Oct 2008
Posted: March 27th, 2008Jordan 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.
Human Rights Documentation: Focus on Global Resources, CRL
Posted: March 26th, 2008The Center for Research Libraries’ (www.crl.edu) latest issue of Focus On… highlights German resources that are held by the Center (http://209.175.55.102/PDF/pdfFocus/Winter2007-08.pdf). Queen’s University Library is a member of CRL allowing for long term interlibrary loan of their materials.
QCAT Library Catalogue – Back Online
Posted: March 12th, 2008Good news! The library catalogue is available once again.
Thank you for your patience during the outage and our apologies once again for the inconvenience.
QCAT Server Problem – Catalogue Currently Unavailable
Posted: March 12th, 2008Due to an unexpected server hardware failure, QCAT – the Queen’s library catalogue – is currently unavailable. Every effort is being made to diagnose and repair the problem as quickly as possible but we cannot give an “anticipated up time” at the moment.
We apologise for this inconvenience, especially at such a critical time of year, and ask for your understanding while system engineers do their best to get the catalogue back online as soon as they can.
Join Cirque 2009
Posted: March 11th, 2008CIRQUE, the Conference on Industry and Resource; Queens University Engineering, is hiring the 2009 executive committee. Application deadline is Friday, March 14. More details are available here
Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library – trial database
Posted: March 10th, 2008ICE Virtual Library
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library “gives access to the largest repository of full text civil engineering papers in the world. From here you can search the ICE’s archive of technical papers from 1836 to the present day, viewing papers on screen in fully printable form.”
This database is on trial until April 3rd, 2008. Please check it out and let us know what you think. Comments can be sent to engsci@queensu.ca
New dataset search tool, odesi, includes health data
Posted: March 4th, 2008As of Tuesday, March 4, 2008, students, educators, researchers and scholars from all Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) institutions (this includes Queen’s University Library) have access to <odesi>, a web-based system delivered through Scholars Portal which allows users to explore multiple data sets, including demographic data from Statistics Canada and polling data from Gallup, in a variety of ways.
Of particular interest to Bracken Library users, this tool currently gives access to a wealth of health-related data such as from:
- Canada’s Alcohol and Other Drugs Survey,
- Canada’s Addiction Survey,
- Canadian Community Health Survey,
- Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey,
- Health Promotion Survey,
- Health Statistics at a Glance,
- Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health,
- Smoking Habits of Canadians,
- Sun Exposure Survey,
- Survey of Aging and Independence, and
- Survey of Smoking in Canada and Youth Smoking Survey.
To find out more or to start exploring the data, just visit odesi.scholarsportal.info.
Students, Faculty – Earn $25 for 1-Hour Interview about QCAT
Posted: March 4th, 2008Attention all Queen’s students and faculty! We are seeking 10 students and 4 faculty members who can participate next week (March 10-13) in a study on using the QCAT library catalogue and its role in your research process.
To volunteer: complete the preliminary survey without delay! Deadline: Friday, 7 March 2008 (or earlier if all places are taken).
Those accepted into the study will be asked to attend a one-hour, one-on-one interview next week (specific time to be arranged), at which time they will receive a $25 Library printing/photocopy card as acknowledgement of our thanks for contributing to this critical Queen’s Library project to improve QCAT.
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