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…
Read morePosted on: October 3, 2012
All locations of the TRU Library will be closed on Monday 8 October for Canada’s Thanksgiving holiday. (The House of Learning will remain open for study.) AskAway (chat) and email reference services will also be unavailable that day. The Library will reopen at its usual time on Tuesday 9 October. Library staff wish you a…
Read morePosted on: September 29, 2012
Canadian Newsstand, CBCA, Sociological Abstracts and other ProQuest databases are back in operation following a weekend disruption. The databases had been unavailable during the weekend until Sunday 30 Sept. at 7 a.m. while ProQuest performed scheduled system maintenance. The Library regrets this inconvenience and thanks you for your patience.
Read morePosted on: September 24, 2012
Students and faculty can once again place requests for interlibrary loans. The system was out of commission for several days, during which the “request” function was not working. TRU librarians worked with partner agencies to resolve issues and conduct maintenance. The Library thanks users for their patience during this time. The interlibrary loan (ILL) system…
Read morePosted on: September 17, 2012
The TRU Library’s interlibrary loan (ILL) system will be performing temporary scheduled maintenance on the evening of Monday, September 17 and the morning of Tuesday, September 18. ILL requesting will not be available during this period.
Read morePosted on: September 13, 2012
Please be advised that ARTstor will be performing temporary scheduled maintenance on Saturday, September 15 between 7 pm and 11 pm Pacific Time. Access to the ARTstor Digital Library will be temporarily suspended during this time.
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Posted on: September 5, 2012
Please note that starting this September, course reserves for courses in the sciences will be circulated & available to students from the House of Learning 3rd floor library location (as opposed to the Main Library, where most reserves have been held until now). Reserves for courses in the humanities & social sciences will remain in…
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