Library services October 2014

October is celebrated as ‘Libraries Inspire’ month. We hosted a series of presentations under the scope of our campaign – Library is your Learning Partner for Life.

Story of Cree Place Names on October 8

Mr. Bruce Cutknife conducted a presentation about the story of Cree Place names. His presentation included travelling across the world of indigenous communities climbing mountains and enjoying the breeze at rivers. 45 students from UCEP, ABE, and literacy program attended this presentation.

Statistics Canada presentation on October 10

Ms. Connie LeGrande presented the Aboriginal People's Survey and navigating Statistics Canada on October 10, 2014 to the Computer Studies 203 and Sociology 2560 classes.

D.Yun’s students listened to the guest lecture. Scheduled the first quiz on October 17th and sent a note to his students, “The content presented by this week's guest may feature in a quiz (5%).”

Computer studies instructor Tom Crier designed Excel and PowerPoint assignments requiring students to use the education and age data presented by guest lecturer.

Use of online databases - statistics

Jan 2874

Feb 2658

Mar 3485

April 2508

May 92

June 162

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July 458

August 94

Total 12331 Source: Ernie Howe, Electronic Access Coordinator,

University of Alberta

Learning Partner for Life campaign

We launched a learning partner campaign.

Veronica learned at the library about FASD and neurological development and 6 to 13 years is a crucial period for relationship development between FASD.

Lorne Green conducted research and wrote his annotated bibliography using the computers at the library on October 21. Please bring time along with you when you come to the library just like Lorne did. He is more confident in his research and digital literacy skills.

Instructor Library multimedia content creation partnership on a novel

Class: Cree studies 1102.

Novel: Keeper’n Me by Richard Wagamese

Oct 8: Groups formed

Oct 15: Script writing in class

Oct 22: Script recording using webcam on laptop as part of midterm and written script submitted. This was a trial.

Oct 29: Meet & Greet filmmakers, film making workshop, scriptwriting, and screening.

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Presentation about storytelling and a discussion with the students about the script work and filming they have already been doing as an introduction. We built with this framework and worked through the filmmaking process. The class ended with the screening of films in the computer lab and a history of Maskwacis Cree by Bruce Cutknife. Journalist Amelia from Ponoka News did a 30 minute presentation about script writing. Bruce Cutknife guided us in this process with technical expertise and indigenous context.

10 am Tuesdays Technology @ MCC

October 28, 10 am

Kalin Jensen from the NAIT Library in Edmonton showed us how their library is using Google Analytics to better understand how users are using their library website.  She demonstrated how Analytics has informed some changes on their website and how the subsequent changes have impacted its usability.

Wilda Listener and Inez Lightning attended a training session.

We also learned about editing Wikispaces and Dropbox to collaborate.

Open Access Week, October 20-26

http://www.openaccessweek.org

A global event now entering its eighth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.

MCC library created awareness about Open Educational Resources (OER),

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planning to publish a research journal in 2015, learned about open access repositories, and is planning to deliver ‘Are you ready for online learning using open access resources?’

Library also emailed open access research documents to faculty.

Supporting literacy programs and service providers in the community

Grace and Jason brought their students to the library on October 27. We started a read aloud sharing circle by reading the small book UN’s Charter of Indigenous Rights. We used the viewing station to learn about words such as rapporteur.

Proposing one on one eLearning Symposium for March 13, 2015 Digital Learning Day

We know that our collection of digital tools and lesson plans are only a tiny fraction of the free classroom and program resources available to educators. The below websites will help you search thousands of free tools and ideas by grade-level, teacher ratings, and more!  http://www.digitallearningday.org

Please mark the following dates in your calendar:

November 5: Research and Citation workshop with Student Services

November 7: Dr. Yun’s Movie for his class at the library

November 21: Numeracy Development presentation by Dr. Chankaya

November 28: Dr. Yun’s Sharing Circle and Student Showcase

Introducing Bookshare

Bookshare’s® goal is to make the world of print accessible to people with disabilities. Our trial password is as follows.

User name: Canada@ bookshare .org

Password: Ask your librarian

Web: www. bookshare .org

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ bookshare

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ bookshare

Blog: http://blog. bookshare .org/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BookshareTeam

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Ensuring that all materials.

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Disability Qualified/Not QualifiedExamples of Competent

Authorities

Visual Impairment (VI)

Blindness / Low vision

Qualified, if confirmed by a listed  Competent Authority

A family doctor, ophthalmologist, optometrist, Teacher of the Visually Impaired, Special Education teacher

Certification from the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in the U.S. or similar national body in other countries

Physical Disability (PD)

Qualified, if confirmed by a listed Competent Authority that the disability significantly affects the use of printed materials

A family doctor or other medical professional, physical therapist, resource specialist, Special Education teacher

Learning Disability (LD)

Reading Disability

Qualified, if confirmed by a listed Competent Authority, that the disability has a physical basis and significantly affects the use of print

A neurologist, psychiatrist, learning disability specialist, Special Education teacher, school psychologist, or clinical psychologist with a background in learning disabilities

Autism

Emotional disabilities

ADHD

ESL and ELL

Intellectual Disabilities

Not qualified under this diagnosis, unless accompanied by a qualifying visual, physical, learning or reading disability as certified by a Competent Authority as above

Examples listed above