McMaster University Libraries are hosting a mini conference next month for Ontario academic library employees to explore teaching and learning within the library setting.

The event takes place on April 26, 2024, at L.R. Wilson Hall on McMaster’s Hamilton campus.

The mini conference aims to create an opportunity for attendees to participate in interactive programming and networking sessions to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange focused on teaching and learning.    

Alix Shield has dedicated her academic career to Indigenous women’s writing, editing, and publishing in Canada.

A settler scholar, Shield is a lecturer in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University. She recently published an updated edition of E. Pauline Johnson's Legends of Vancouver – retitled Legends of the Capilano – with the University of Manitoba Press and members of the Skwxwú7mesh Nation.

Looking for some helpful tips on how to write a resumé, build a network or rock your LinkedIn profile?

The latest LinkedIn Learning Club @ McMaster set of courses has launched just in time for March as McMaster University students apply for summer internships or a new job. 

Students can easily log onto their free LinkedIn Learning account to access the list of short videos selected by Tanvir Singh, a third-year computer science student and LinkedIn Learning ambassador 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 services desks?

McMaster University Libraries are inviting faculty, 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.

The survey is part of McMaster University Library’s strategic planning process. Survey responses will help inform the development of new services, initiatives, and programming.

Are you a McMaster University researcher looking for open access publishing opportunities at reduced or no cost?

McMaster University Libraries are simplifying the search process with the SciFree Journal Search Tool.

SciFree provides a central searchable platform that allows researchers to find journals where they can publish with article processing charges (APC) waived or reduced. Information displayed includes journal title and imprint, journal publishing model, payment options, and licence types.

Searching for help on R? Seeking a primer on LaTeX? Looking for advice on programming with Python?

The team at the Data Analysis Support Hub, known around campus as DASH, is here to save the day.

Based in the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship at Mills Memorial Library, DASH staff assist with data analysis and software applications such as Excel, SPSS, or other statistical software.

DASH services, resources and workshops are available to McMaster students, staff or faculty members from any discipline. Of course, all of this comes free of charge.

How can it be that two copies of one book with the same title page and publication date are visually and textually different? 

This question led Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, distinctive collections cataloguing librarian at McMaster University Library, on an almost year-long journey of untangling the complex history behind a rare sixteenth-century emblem book.