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YFile: Associate Dean Jack Leong organizes 2022 Canadian Comparative Literature Conference

YFile: Associate Dean Jack Leong organizes 2022 Canadian Comparative Literature Conference

Together with the executive committee, Jack Leong, associate dean of research and open scholarship at York University Libraries organized the conference for the Canadian Comparative Literature Association/L’Association Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (CCLA/ACLC). The event featured presentations from York faculty and graduate students. This year’s theme was “Divergence and Convergence of Comparative Literature” and the event took place […]

Omni: Pickup Anywhere Now Available

Omni: Pickup Anywhere Now Available

A Pickup Anywhere service is now available in Omni. With this new service, you’ll be able to choose any one of the 16 Omni partner institutions across Ontario to pick up books that you request. Doing a co-op in London for the summer and need a book for your online course? Request it and choose Western’s Weldon […]

YorkU Libraries Hosts Symposium: Navigating Information and Race in the Era of COVID-19

YorkU Libraries Hosts Symposium: Navigating Information and Race in the Era of COVID-19

At a time when COVID-19 continues to impact various communities, accurate and bias-free health and anti-racism messages on the web have also become more critical than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data also show that the virus’-impact has been highly racialized.   On May 3-4, 2022, YorkU Libraries will host a virtual symposium on Navigating Information […]

YorkU Libraries LibGuide provides resources on current crisis in Ukraine

YorkU Libraries LibGuide provides resources on current crisis in Ukraine

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The York University Libraries’ War in Ukraine Subject Research Guide, prepared by Senior Librarian Mary Kandiuk, in the Department of Content Development & Analysis, serves as a starting point to locate background information about Ukraine, the events leading up to the Russian invasion of […]