Is your new year’s resolution to learn more, especially about fascinating topics like science communication, data visualization, and artificial intelligence?

If so, let the Lewis and Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship help you achieve your goal.

DS Bytes: A Lunchtime Speaker Series on Digital Scholarship is a new initiative featuring engaging presenters with virtual attendance options, all free to the community.

Applications are being invited through the end of January 2023 for research grants administered by McMaster University Library.

Among the offerings are the Dr. William G. Bensen and Family Travel Grant in Canadian History, the McMaster-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Short-Term Fellowship, and unrestricted travel grants open to a wide range of research areas.

The LinkedIn Learning Club @ McMaster is ringing in the new year with a motivating monthly challenge.

Throughout January, McMaster students using their free LinkedIn Learning accounts will have access to a learning calendar featuring a month of daily content geared toward improving learning habits.

It was 1924 when an Elected Band Council was established for the first time in Six Nations of the Grand River.

The inception, performed under the authority of the Indian Act and with the support from a small—but vocal—number of community members, marked a dramatic change in governance for the community.

As the fall term comes to an end, Mills and Thode libraries will be closed for the winter break in late December.

Both libraries will close following the final examination period and will welcome back McMaster students, staff, faculty, and members of the community for the start of winter term classes.

The LinkedIn Learning Club @ McMaster is wrapping up the year with a best of 2022 collection.

Throughout December, McMaster students using their free LinkedIn Learning account will have access to a collection of the LinkedIn Learning Club’s top courses from its 2022 campaign series.

This month’s collection was crafted by Maggie Chan and Eline Gonzalez, LinkedIn Learning ambassadors and McMaster students.

Looking for a space to study and take online exams this month at McMaster University?

McMaster University Library has you covered with a variety of study spaces, a dedicated mask-on study room and extended hours.

Meanwhile, there are several online exam rooms throughout campus. 

McMaster University Libraries are changing how students, staff, and faculty log in to off-campus access when seeking journal articles, ebooks, and other licensed content.

Starting Dec. 12, off-campus access will adopt the MS Office 365 single sign-on.

Users will log in with their MacID@mcmaster.ca and password, similar to Office 365, when accessing e-resources while working off campus regardless of McMaster VPN activation.

McMaster University Library’s inaugural impact report is now available.

The 2021-22 impact report offers readers an inside look at the University library’s strategic work during the past year, through stories of innovative learning solutions, remarkable research support and meaningful outreach initiatives.

Keith Patrick was returning from a successful bombing mission in Arras, France when his Halifax bomber was chased and shot down by enemy fighters.

It was June 12, 1944, six days after D-Day.

The plane crashed in a field near the village of Gournay, killing four of the seven crew.