We all have them: Old phones, laptops, hard drives, and other small electronics, stuffed in drawers and bins or scattered throughout our homes and offices – just gathering dust.

Now, a new initiative developed by University Technology Services (UTS) and McMaster University Library, in partnership with GreenByte – a local not-for-profit organization – is making it easier for students, faculty and staff to recycle their electronic waste, or e-waste, securely and sustainably, while helping make a difference in the Hamilton community.

From March 2-6, 2020, McMaster University Library is celebrating Open Education Week, a global event to raise awareness about how Open Educational Resources (OER) can help make education more affordable and accessible to learners world-wide.

OER include teaching, learning and research resources such as textbooks, assignments, modules and syllabi that are freely accessible, openly licensed and can be used, shared or modified by anyone.

Learn more about OER at McMaster

Are libraries across campus meeting your informational and research needs? Do you need more quiet study space? Can you find the help you need at Library service desks?

McMaster University Libraries are inviting faculty, research staff and students to provide input on these questions and more as part of a survey aimed at finding ways to improve library services, spaces and collections.

Even as a child, poet and writer Nilofar Shidmehr was always sensitive to the suffering of others.

“When I was in elementary school, a student from a well-off family brought in these really nice cherries to eat at the break,” recalls Shidmehr, who grew up in Iran. “There was another student who just looked at those cherries – her family could not afford them. It was engrained in my mind, the look in that girl’s eyes.”

A new guide is making it easier for McMaster faculty and instructors to find free, high-quality open textbooks and other educational materials across a range of disciplines.

The OER by Discipline Guide, developed by McMaster University Library in partnership with the MacPherson Institute, includes a list of 180 open textbooks and other open educational resources (OER) organized by academic program at McMaster.

A trench map from McMaster University Library’s extensive World War One map collection is playing a supporting role in one of this year’s most acclaimed films.

The map, which depicts a network of trenches in Northern France between Arras and Cambrai, is part of the set design in the film 1917, directed by Sam Mendes and featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Colin Firth.

“Equality is not about men, it’s also not about women; it’s about providing a nurturing environment where people of diverse traits can maximize their potential.”

That was the message from Rita Orji, an assistant professor of computer science at Dalhousie University, a trailblazer in advocating for gender equality in her field, and the keynote speaker at a recent symposium aimed at celebrating and supporting women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Throughout the first and second world wars, propaganda became a powerful tool of the state, considered by governments of all nations to be an essential weapon of war, every bit as critical as artillery, guns, or tanks.

Vast amounts of money and effort were spent on domestic and international campaigns designed to stir patriotism, shape public opinion, vilify or demoralize the enemy, or give hope to those living in occupied territories.

In 1910, Cambridge University Press published the first volume of Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work by renowned logician and philosopher Bertrand Russell, and philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead.

It was a work of epic proportions, one that attempted to address a question that had vexed philosophers and mathematicians since the time of Aristotle: what are the foundations of mathematics and are they rooted in logic?

She’s been called the “queen of Jamaican culture,” and is considered a national hero by many in the Jamaican diaspora.

For more than 50 years, poet, actress, musician and linguist, Louise Bennett-Coverley, affectionately known as “Miss Lou,” entertained audiences through her television and radio programs, using performance and humour to deliver poignant social commentary, and to share her country’s distinct cultural heritage and patios language with the world.