Posted on: November 30, 2012
Finals got you frazzled? We’ve got a toy for that! TRU Library is setting up a “Stress-Free Zone” next to the House of Learning’s ground-floor Learning Commons, starting Monday 3 Dec. It’s a place to build a Lego dinosaur. Or get in touch with Waldo. The project is a joint venture between the Library, Computer…
Read morePosted on: November 27, 2012
Main Library is gonna wait ’til the midnight hour — starting Monday, Dec. 3rd. The annual tradition of keeping Main open until 12 pm is to facilitate exam study for students. This year, the late hours last from Monday 3 Dec. until Friday 14 Dec., including the weekend. The Barber Centre at HoL has also…
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Posted on: November 22, 2012
Three ingenious new devices at Main Library will enable hearing-, speech- and vision-impaired people to do what most of us take for granted — read text and communicate with others. The three state-of-the-art “assistive technologies”, funded by the Provost’s office, were added to TRU Library’s arsenal this month. They include: an UbiDuo, for face-to-face textual…
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Posted on: November 19, 2012
The Irving K. Barber Centre — the large round theatre at the House of Learning — is being made available for silent, individual study during exams this semester. A calendar of times will be posted on the Barber Centre’s door. Or, see below (or click here) for a preliminary schedule for November.
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