Tomorrow's Data Today! Research Data Management Week is May 1-5

It's time for the 4th annual Research Data Management Week!

On May 1st at 9 AM keynote speaker Chuck Humphrey (Director, Portage Network, Canadian Association of Research Libraries) will start the week with his presentation of “A Federated Research Data Management Model: A Canadian Approach”

We are also pleased to welcome exciting guest speakers from the City of Edmonton, the Government of Alberta, Women & Children’s Health Research Institute, the Edmonton Police Service, PolicyWise, Compute Canada, and more!

Teaching Kids About Fake News: Post-Truth and a New Era of Media Literacy

Date: Thursday, May 11 2017 at 2:00 PM

Location: H.T. Coutts Education & Physical Education Library, Computer Lab L-110

Please join us in the H.T. Coutts Education & Physical Education Library on Thursday, May 11th at 2:00 PM for a presentation by Toronto-based journalist and author Joyce Grant on teaching K-12 students how to spot “fake news.” Grant’s talk will contain invaluable information on media literacy for anyone who works with children, including educators, pre-service teachers, and parents. Grant will discuss the various ways in which children access news today, and how difficult it is for them to discern which information is true and which is false.

Joyce Grant is the author of several children’s books, including the Gabby series of picture books and last year’s baseball novel Tagged Out. She is also a freelance journalist and the co-founder of TeachingKidsNews.com, which contains news articles written specifically for children in elementary and middle school, as well as media literacy resources for teachers and parents.

Ms. Grant will be visiting us as part of the TD Canadian Children’s Book Week touring author series coordinated by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.

Some links to learn more about Joyce and the Teach Kids News program:
Joyce Grant’s website: http://joycegrantauthor.com/
Joyce Grant on Twitter: http://twitter.com/JGCanada
Teaching Kids News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/teachkidsnews
Teaching Kids News on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/teachkidsnews/
Joyce Grant (and Teaching Kids News) on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/JGCanada12/

PIE Exhibit on now at the Scott Library

Great Reads for National Poetry Month

The League of Canadian Poets just announced the finalists for their 2017 Poetry Awards.  Celebrate National Poetry Month and read a poem from one of the shortlisted poets!

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
Recognizes the best first book of poetry published by a Canadian

• Assdeep in Wonder by Christopher Gudgeon
• The Back Channels by Jennifer Houle
• Players by John Nyman
• This Being by Ingrid Ruthig
• The Unlit Path Behind the House by Margo Wheaton
• Songs of Exile by Bänoo Zan

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award
Given for a book of poetry by a Canadian woman

• 100 Days by Juliane Okot Bitek
• Float by Anne Carson
• Lady Crawford by Julie Cameron Gray
• Let the Empire Down by Alexandra Oliver
• Heaven's Thieves by Sue Sinclair
• The Description of the World by Johanna Skibsrud

The Raymond Souster Award
Given for a book of poetry by a League of Canadian Poets member [all levels]

• Disturbing the Buddha by Barry Dempster
• silent sister: the mastectomy poems by Beth Everest
• Serpentine Loop by Elee Kraljii Gardiner
• Burning in this Midnight Dream by Louise Bernice Halfe
• The Waking Comes Late by Steven Heighton
• Après Satie - For Two and Four Hands by Dean Steadman

Congratulations to Images of Research Winners

University of Alberta Libraries and the Faculty of Graduate and Studies and Research are pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Images of Research Competition and Exhibition. This innovative program challenges graduate students to capture, share, and present the essence of their research in one image.

The response from students was enthusiastic. Over 100 visually dynamic images were submitted, representing research across a wide range of disciplines. From those entries, our 6 judges chose 24 images for inclusion in the exhibition, as well as our top prize winners. In addition, UAlberta community members cast over 750 votes for our People’s Choice Award.

And the winners are....

Dylan Brenneis
Master’s
Mechanical Engineering
First Prize (Tie) - $700
Self Portrait 2045


The second tie winner for first is:

Camelia Vokey
Master’s
Occupational Therapy
First Prize (Tie)  - $700
I Am Not Alone


Third prize and honourable mentions:

Noemi de Bruijn
Master’s Art & Design
Third Prize - $500
Wonder-trail in Blue and Yellow


Camille Burger
Ph.D
Drama
Honorable Mention - $250
Body as a Home


Ashley Sims
Ph.D
History & Classics
Honorable Mention - $250
‘Divers cullort ribbans’: material evidence from the archives


The winner of the People’s Choice Award, receiving 87 of the 795 votes, is:

Trevor Poitras
Master’s
Neuroscience
People's Choice - $250
Outgrowth


Congratulations and sincere thanks to all of our winners and entrants for sharing their brilliant images and engaging research summaries!

Winning and semi-finalist images will soon be available online through UAL’s digital repository, ERA.

The public exhibition will be on display in Cameron Library from April 6 to 30, 2017.

InSciTE 3D Printing @ Cameron Library

Stop by Cameron Library to see the inventive 3D models display, InSciTE 3D Printing, featuring SCI 151 students' 3D printed works.

Students were tasked with finding and printing a 3D model that represents a scientific theory or notion, employing 3D printing services in the Shack and Cameron Library.

Students not only exhibited great creativity, printing  everything from a miniature Tombstone of Archimedes to Leonardo da Vinci's Self-Supporting Bridge, to  Phylogenetic Tree pendants and a large customizable DNA Model, they learned a great deal about the science behind their objects, and how to formally communicate scientific theory.

Students' 3D models, along with information about the InSciTE program, will be on display in the Cameron Library display cubes March 29th-April 20th, 2017.

Thanks to Michelle Spila and her staff for their work in putting together the display.

Sneak Peek Inside the Research and Collections Resource Facility

Construction of the new Research and Collections Resource Facility (RCRF) is moving right along and it is looking great! The RCRF team has started planning to move about 3.1 million items from BARD to the RCRF. This stage will begin in Fall 2017.

Here is a sneak peek of the construction progress.

Storage area

Panoramic photo of the storage area

Reading Room