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The Lyons New Media Centre recently rolled out the red carpet for the fourth annual McMaster 24 Hour Film Festival gala event.
Open Access Week 2015
From October 19-23, join McMaster University Libary to learn more about how McMaster and other institutions, organizations and agencies around the world are working to make scholarly materials available online, free of cost or other access barriers.
Quiet Late Night Study @ Innis: Starting Oct. 19
Can’t study in the Mills Learning Commons at night because it’s just too loud? Too much going on there? Hard to focus? Try the new Quiet Late Night Study service being piloted at the Innis Library (KTH-108) for the rest of this term.
Library announces travel scholarship winner
Zack Batist, a graduate student in Anthropology is this year’s recipient of the McMaster University Library’s 2015 OpenCon Travel Scholarship valued at $2500 US.
Access Denied! What Is Open Access and Why Is It Important?
Open Access Week 2015 is upon us! Now in its 8th year, Open Access Week (Oct. 19-25) is an annual event that promotes Open Access (OA) in scholarship and research. McMaster University Libraries, along with other libraries and institutions around the world, are organizing and offering a week of activities and opportunities to participate in this global movement. See the library’s Schedule of Events for Oct. 19-23.
24 Hour Film Festival Gala Event- Fri. Oct. 9
Celebrate McMaster’s budding filmmakers at the 4th annual McMaster 24 Hour Film Festival Awards Gala.
Five years later, students still ‘blown away’ by Lyons New Media Centre
Library staff and students gathered recently to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Lyons New Media Centre.
Events
Science Literacy Week offers a wide range of fun, informative programming
View a lunar eclipse, learn the basics of cryptography, test your scientific knowledge and win! All this and more during Science Literacy Week, Sept. 21-27.
Meet the 2015/16 Sherman Graduate Fellows
Three graduate students from a range of disciplines will spend the next year exploring how they can apply the principles of digital scholarship to their research.
Attention graduate students: Travel scholarship available
McMaster University Library is very pleased to sponsor a travel scholarship for one McMaster graduate student to attend a conference on Open Access in Brussels, Belgium from November 14-16, 2015.
Paying homage to Alice Munro
A handwritten letter penned by Alice Munro and housed in McMaster's archives has provided the backdrop for a stamp recently issued by Canada Post honouring the Nobel Prize winning author.
Farley Mowat, our digital future and gems from the archives
Read about all this and more in the latest issue of the McMaster Library News.
