ClimateQUAL Info Sessions

As discussed in last month's All Personnel Meeting, we have scheduled some information sessions related to the ClimateQUAL results. All sessions will be in the Hodges Reading Room and a DoodlePoll is included ti help us get an expected count of participants:  http://doodle.com/pwsnr9w8y58xs5tq

The dates and times are:

• Friday, September 28th at 11 am
• Tuesday, October 2nd at 4 pm
• Wednesday, October 3rd at 9:30 am
• Thursday, October 11th at 2 pm

We hope everyone can attend one of these sessions, slides from the ClimateQUAL presentation at the All Personnel Meeting are below:

Real Learning Connections

We are continuing with our Real Learnings Connection program for a third year with 3 projects and 4 wonderful graduate assistant's in our partnership with the School of Library and Information Science.  This program and these projects are studying the relationship between theory and practice by facilitating work and discussion between faculty, librarians and students.  Research of field literature and emerging trends within the field are also studied as per of this endeavour.

Our three projects starting this month are;

• Tech Services to study our transition to WMS and  how cloud computing is impacting the library environment, with Leslie Perry
• University Artifacts Project, to process and study how artifacts and archives can be accessible and useful for student research use, with Susan Taylor
• And Digital Media Commons, with a LIS student (Chelsea Deangio) and a Media Studies student (Samantha Chambers) is studying the needs of students in a digital environment, the impact our new DMC will have and how the two academic disciplines approach it from an educational point of view.

Please welcome these students and support them in their projects, thanks!
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