e-Bulletin team's blog

By Vincci Lui and Megan Fitzgibbons, with notes from Leticia Cuenca. Photos by Émilie Gagnon

The annual fundraiser for CODE, at least in recent years, has become synonymous with warm company on cold nights. For a few years running, the event closely followed Montreal’s first significant snowfall of the season. On December 8, a hearty and animated group of professionals and students in the Montreal library world gathered to celebrate the season, connect with colleagues, and most importantly, raise money for CODE.

Submitted by Ann Moffat

Biblioteca Joanina at the University of Coimbra, Portugal

By Anne Wade

What interesting times that we live in. As I prepare to write this message I am reflecting on an article that I have just read from Maclean’s entitled From e-Books to No Books which discusses the migration of university libraries to the electronic format for materials. The Applied Engineering and Technology Library at University of Texas at San Antonio is used as an example of the world's first bookless library as It now offers access to 425,000 e-books and 18,000 e-journal subscriptions (Findley, 2010). Improved accessibility, simultaneous multiple users, greater flexibility for readers, especially those with special needs…it’s all good.

Contributed by Rosemary Cochrane 

At a time when so many of us are taking an interest in our own genealogies (perhaps with the help of our local library), we know well the thrill – and fun – of finding yet another document that validates our particular history.  Such was the feeling elicited recently as regards the history of our own Association.  At a Board Meeting (27 October 2010), Janet Ilavsky reported coming across in the Archives the original Lettres patentes, complete with bright red seal, which incorporated our Association as a non-profit organization, dated 21 November 1946.  

St. Anne de Bellevue, November 5. Students in the Information and Library Technologies (ILT) department at John Abbott College were given the opportunity today to hear communications specialist, Judee Ganten, present her lecture “Get Your Message Out”. As part of a series of events being held by the Public Relations class, a group of students invited the founder of Ganten Communications to speak about her professional approach towards business communication.

 Information and Library Technologies Department, John Abbott College, Ste.- Anne-de-Bellevue, October 22nd.

Guest speaker Graham Lavender drew upon his personal and institutional blogging experience with the McGill Library Student and Staff Blogs and McGill Twitter, to provide guidelines for the use of blogging and Twitter, as tools for self-promotion and the promotion of library services.

The McGill ABQLA Student Chapter hosted a "Saturday Hike Up the Mountain" on the first weekend after classes began.  The group of of first and second year MLIS students from left to right:  Laura Markiewicz, Ane-Marie Quiring, Becky Burbank, Adrienne Smith, Adam Baron, Caroline Gerbaulet-Vanasse and Amber McNair.

The Public Library section hosted the annual morning event of the famous Dewey Divas, who gladly shared their favorite picks of recent and fabulous books being published. Six of the Divas came to visit Westmount, representing their respective publishing houses.

 Issue Number 5 of Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture is dedicated to the theme of committed books and publications. Article proposals approximately twenty lines in length should be emailed before November 15, 2010. Please see the attached flyers for full details.

**Just a quick reminder about the Professional Partnering Program! Please register by September 13 so that we can match you with a student who shares your interests.**