Watch for these fun activities:

• puzzles & games
• doodling
• holiday crafts
• question of the day – on our Facebook page & in the library
• treats!

Bracken Library hours will be expanded during the exam period:

December 2- 20, 2012

• Monday – Thursday         8 a.m. – midnight
• Friday                                  8 a.m. – 11 p.m.
• Saturday & Sunday           10 a.m. – 11 p.m.

For info on hours at all libraries, go to: http://library.queensu.ca/library/hours

Would you like to help Queen’s Library imagine and build its future? As part of the Library and Archives Master Plan process, focus group sessions are taking place this week and we’d like you to participate! The session for undergraduate students takes place Friday, November 30, from 1:30 – 2:30, and the session for graduate students from 2:30 – 3:30. Both are being held in the University Club at 168 Stuart Street. Pizza will be served. Please come and share your thoughts about the library of the future!

Queen’s has embarked on a major redevelopment: imagining the Queen’s Library and Archives of the future.

The LAMP Steering Group is collaborating with a core team of internationally respected  expert consultants in a rigorous and imaginative planning exercise to develop Queen’s Library and Archives Master Plan.  CS&P Architects are specialists in education, Reich + Petch Architects are collection specialists and Aaron Cohen Associates, library specialists. This core team will be supported by a group of subconsultants in key disciplines including costing, engineering, heritage, audiovisual and information technology. The LAMP Steering Group is working with the lead planning partner CS&P Architects to develop a clear understanding of space needs and opportunities in both the Library and the Archives. The Master Plan Report will guide future planning and identify priorities for future investments.

Queen’s Library and the Archives invite all stakeholders of the Queen’s community to attend the upcoming project overview presentation on Thursday, November 29th, 9:00 – 9:45 am, Robert Sutherland Hall Rm. 202. This presentation will kick off two days of intensive consultation with all Queen’s stakeholders. CS&P, will facilitate discussion sessions with staff groups relating to each library, the Archives, collections, information technology and academic services (reference/information, teaching, research services).  Other group sessions include QLC partners, faculty, undergraduates, graduate students and university operations (campus planning, security, etc).

Queen’s encourages you to engage in the re-visioning of Queen’s Library & Archives campus network. Imagine your Queen’s Library & Archives of the future and help us build it.

Consider these questions:

1. Existing Facilities – Queen’s Library & Archives Strengths & Weaknesses

What are some of the noteworthy strengths and weaknesses you can identify with the Facilities you use and work in, that we should address in the Master Plan?

2. Library & Archives Master Plan of the Future

The Library & Archives Master Plan presents an extraordinary opportunity to consider the Queen’s Library & Archives network in new and exciting ways which better support changing technologies, teaching, learning and research environments today and in the future. What do you think the plan will look like?

Please share your ideas in person or online with our planning partners.

Hugo has returned after being on display at the VOX Contemporary Image Gallery in Montreal. Read more about the exhibit here: http://www.voxphoto.com/english/expositions/gould_trevor/gould_trevor.html

The Screening Room Speaker Series Presents:
CHASING ICE + A Talk by Dr. Scott Lamoureux
Sunday November 18 @ 4pm
Advance tickets go on sale November 1

CHASING ICE is a new documentary about National Geographic photojournalist James Balog’s photographic records of the impact on global warming on glacial ice.

Dr. Scott Lamoureux is a geography professor at Queen’s University; his research interests are concerned with long term landscape changes in the arctic, particularly the interactions between climate, hydrology and geomorphology. Having carried out field research in the Canadian Arctic since 1988, he runs the Environmental Variability and Extremes Laboratory and is a participant in ArcticNet.

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) will cease its interlibrary loan (ILL) service as of December 2012. Queen’s will no longer be able to borrow material held at LAC which includes newspapers and archival material on microfilm and Canadian university theses.

Users of LAC’s current services should note the following dates:

November 16, 2012: End of renewals. All items loaned after this date will be non-renewable and need to be returned to Interlibrary Loans.

December 11, 2012: End of loan requests, location searches, and ILL-related photocopying services.

Most of Bill C-11 – the Copyright Modernization Act – is now in force (as published in the Canada Gazette).

Queen’s Copyright Policy and the Copyright Advisory Office website will be updated to reflect this change over the coming weeks in order to help faculty members prepare course materials for next semester.  If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact my office.

Email: copy.right@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-6000 ext. 78510

Bill C-11 is the most recent attempt to amend the Canadian Copyright Act – something that has not been done successfully since 1997.

Think about 1997 and how you were using copyrighted materials in your class. Is it different than how you use them today?  If you look at the educational exceptions in the current copyright bill, you will find reference to things like overhead projectors and flip charts, but no reference to the types of digital materials that are being used in classrooms today. Thankfully, this will change when Bill C-11 becomes law.

One of the biggest changes is an expansion of the fair dealing exception to cover education, parody and satire.

Why is this important? Fair dealing is an exception that allows you to make copies of copyrighted materials without requesting permission from the copyright holder. To use the fair dealing exception, you have to apply a two-step test to your reproduction – first, you have to determine that your copy will fall under one of the allowable purposes listed in the Act, and then you have to prove that your dealing is fair using criteria set out in the CCH v. Upper Canada Law Society Supreme Court case (For more information on this process and on this case, try our Fair Dealing Evaluation tool).

The big thing about this expansion is that there now can be no question that copying for educational purposes will pass the first step of this test (although, as you will see when we look at the Supreme Court decisions, this may not have been as big of a hurdle as it was once thought).

There are a number of other really interesting new exceptions that will have an impact on educators, including one that will allow you to show videos in class without having to purchase public performance rights, another that will allow you to copy materials that are publicly available on the internet and another that will allow you to mash together copyrighted materials in order to create a new work (think YouTube). For a more thorough summary of the upcoming changes, see the following websites:

• Bill C-11: The Copyright Modernization Act Summary | UBC
• Bill C-11: A Guide for Academic Instructors | Devin Soper

Sam Kalb of Queen’s University Library is one of the 2012 recipients of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Library Assessment Career Achievement Award.  ARL’s web page states: “These awards recognize individuals with substantial contributions to effective, sustainable, and practical library assessment as evidenced through presentations/publications, methods, service, advocacy, and other work.”

Sam was presented with his award on October 30 before a large group of colleagues from around the world at the 2012 Library Assessment Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia.  Sam’s leadership in expanding library assessment across Canada and coordinating the  LibQUAL+® Canada consortium were among the notable achievements cited by ARL in its news release announcing this year’s recipients.  Congratulations to Sam on this well-deserved honour!