York Libraries celebrate Open Access Week with a series of special events

Oct. 19, 2012 - In conjunction with International Open Access Week, the York University Libraries will be hosting a series of events, from Oct. 22 to 25, to highlight emerging trends in scholarly communications. The events include, “The Great Debate: Should the blog replace the book?”, a “Question of the Day” online scavenger hunt in which five winners […]

The Learning Commons launches Access to Success video series

  Sept. 18, 2012 - When asked to write a 10-page essay, or find credible and accurate research sources, or balance academic responsibilities effectively, students often don’t know where to begin. The Learning Commons – a collaborative partnership between the Writing Department, York University Libraries, Learning Skills Services, and Career Services – has produced a […]

Collaboration helps students develop information literacy skills

  Aug. 9, 2012 - "Generation Y” has been dubbed the most tech-savvy generation on record, but despite being submersed in Internet and web-based culture from an early age, researchers from the Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) project suggest that many GenY students have yet to develop adequate information literacy skills. York University Libraries […]

Digital projects & outreach archivist, Anna St.Onge, quoted in the Ottawa Citizen

  July 7, 2012 - Excerpt courtesy of the Ottawa Citizen, "The memory-keeper's dilemma" Anna St. Onge, York University’s Archivist in charge of digital projects and outreach, says librarians and archivists are acutely aware of the challenges — and the opportunities — the Internet presents to their respective fields. However, St. Onge cautions that Caron […]

Maps dating back to 16th century donated to York

July 5, 2012 Courtesy of YFile Maps have a fascination that brings people together in a common admiration of their technical and artistic quality, and for the information that can be revealed by them through careful analysis, says geography Professor Emeritus William Found, a Fellow of York’s Centre for Research on Latin America & the […]

York Business Librarian validates altmetrics for research impact evaluation

June 6, 2012 - Business librarian Xuemei Li has become one of the first librarians to ever have a study validating the usefulness of altmetrics published in an academic journal. Her first research study was published in April, 2012 in Scientometrics and Li’s second study was accepted by the 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators […]

Archives the new home for memoir on race relations

June 4, 2012 - When asked about his overarching goal for writing his autobiography, A Struggle to Walk with Dignity – The True Story of a Jamaican- born Canadian, Gerald A. Archambeau responds, “To inspire youth to never give up on the goodness of human beings regardless of race.”  With this aspiration in mind Archambeau […]

18th century Bible acquired by Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections

  May 22, 2012 - Two hundred years after its printing a copy of John Baskerville’s folio edition of the Holy Bible – one of only 1,250 printed in Cambridge, England in 1763 – made its way to Canada. That same rare Bible was transferred by Richard Tottenham to York University Libraries’ (YUL) Clara Thomas […]

Finnish-Canadian “memories” donated to Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections

May 10, 2012 York University professor Varpu Lindström is known as a “memory keeper” in Finnish-Canadian communities. What’s extraordinary about the “memories” that Lindström keeps is that they aren’t just hers – they are reminiscences of many Finns who immigrated to Canada in the 1880s to early 1900s as a result of economic depression and […]