Posted on: January 17, 2013
Why not test-drive a fascinating new database containing all the beer in China? TRU Library has launched a trial of the Euromonitor Passport database, which houses a vast array of global market data, statistics and analysis. Passport allows researchers to drill down by product, region, country, company and brand to find out who’s consuming, producing…
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Posted on: December 14, 2012
Thompson Rivers University, including the TRU Library, will be closed for the holidays as of noon on Monday, December 24, 2012 and will reopen on Wednesday, January 2, 2013. Both Library locations will also be closed January 4 for staff training. The staff and faculty of the TRU Library wish you the best of the…
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Posted on: December 5, 2012
The TRU community has gained online, 24/7 access to some the world’s most prestigious scientific journals. The Library has switched its subscriptions to Nature, Nature Genetics and Nature Neuroscience from print to online versions in order to expand access — and reduce costs in the bargain. “This vastly increases access to important scientific literature for…
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Posted on: December 3, 2012
You like us. You really like us, according to a national survey. The Globe and Mail newspaper has crunched the numbers and found TRU’s library is on par with the national average of small-university libraries, according to the Globe’s Canadian University Report – Student Survey. The survey compares universities, and their libraries, against a range…
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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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Posted on: October 26, 2012
What would you think of a public institution that actively supports an industry that’s bleeding it of money? Universities and journal publishers are locked in just that type of relationship, an open-access forum concluded. The recent rise of open-access journals could challenge the power of the commercial academic-journal publishers, such as Elsevier, Sage and Springer…
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Posted on: October 13, 2012
The turbulence engulfing scholarly publishing will receive careful examination this month as the TRU Library hosts a forum in recognition of Open Access Week. The forum features Nicole White, Head of the Research Commons at Simon Fraser University. She will describe the Public Knowledge Project, a partnership among several academic institutions that hopes to encourage…
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