Real Educators. Real Conversations. Real Learning.
On Thursday, April 5, 2012 check out a book from the
Human Learning Library.
This unique event, hosted by RDC Library, features a collection of “human books” that are experts in the Red Deer educational community.
Be a “reader” and check them out to learn about different approaches to teaching and learning.
After 244 years, Encyclopedia Britannica is stopping the press, and will publish only online editions of its 32-volume encyclopedia set.
“The final decision to put it all online makes sense, of course. It’s costly and painstaking to produce a new edition of an enormous print product, a cultural symbol though it may be; meanwhile, a database is boundless and can be continually updated (and corrected) for relative peanuts. The company will concentrate on digital publishing and educational products, developing apps to make sure it’s everywhere you want to be. The brand may become the equivalent of Wikipedia with fact-checking: Britannica Online allows readers to revise its entries “which are then published after editorial review and revision if necessary.” —Time NewsFeed
Luckily for RDC students and instructors, RDC Library already subscribes to the online edition!
To access this wonderful resource, visit any of our Subject Guides, then go to the Find Background Info page, and look for the General Encyclopedias & Dictionaries box.
Celebrate Freedom to Read Week!
February 26-March 3, 2012
“Freedom to Read Week is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”
—freedomtoread.ca
RDC Library celebrates Freedom to Read Week by sharing some challenged books with you.
Rejuvenate in January by learning something new!
Check out a book from our Library New Books display.
Titles currently featured in our display will inspire a “new you” for the new year.
Mexican vacation coming up?
Dos cervezas por favour!
Need to speak Pirate for International Talk like a Pirate Day?
Ahoy, matey!
Could your English be better?
日本語話者のための英語のレッスンを見つける。
Try Mango Languages, our featured resource this month, and learn a new language today!
Enter the World of Tomorrow through Biblion: The Boundless Library, an immersive experience developed by the New York Public Library (NYPL).
Biblion lets you virtually explore the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair through photos, posters, multimedia, and documents from the stacks of NYPL.
“The Fair has something for everyone, from technological innovation and classical music, to pop culture and a world dealing with the crises of war and economic hardship.”
Explore the Fair today!
Visit the Biblion website or install the free Biblion iPad app.
October 24-30 is Open Access Week!
Visit our Open Guide to learn about Open Access, Open Culture, Open Education, and Open Source.
This international event recognizes and promotes publishing initiatives that make scholarly research accessible online to anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world.
This is accomplished through Open Access (OA) journals, institutional repositories, self-archiving and a lot of hard work by academics, librarians and a variety of others who argue that free, universal access to research is a right, not a pricey privilege.
The following animated video (3:16) explains open access to research and why it’s important:
Innovative.
Transformative.
Connected.
Canada’s libraries are evolving to meet the needs of an increasingly information-driven society.
In October, this evolution is celebrated during Canadian Library Month. The theme, Your Library, A Place Unbound, highlights the shift to innovations such as digital and downloadable books, music, movies, electronic databases, gaming and reaching out to library users via social media.
Today, there are over 22,000 libraries in incredibly diverse Canadian communities, from major metropolitan areas to towns and rural hamlets, from research-intensive universities to colleges of art and design. (By comparison, there are just over 3,000 Tim Hortons stores in Canada.)
Learn more about Canadian Library Month.
What do zombies and information literacy have in common?
They are both featured in a new graphic novel called Library of the Living Dead, produced by McPherson College’s Miller Library in Kansas.
“The library has just released an online 23-page library guide in graphic novel format called Library of the Living Dead that features students taking cover in the library from zombies run amok on campus, and the flight to safety becomes a point of departure for a blood-stained lesson, replete with decapitations, in the Dewey Decimal system and other library tools.” —Library Journal
Scene from "Library of the Living Dead"
Here’s a great promo for libraries, done in the style of the widely popular Old Spice commercial. Just under a minute long, and worth the watch!
Watch behind the scenes footage.
