The Library has set up a trial for the BuildingGreen suite, an online resource providing current, authoritative information on sustainable design and construction.
The suite is composed of 3 integrated databases:
- 200 case studies of high performance buildings, including energy data and project details
- all content from Environmental Building News, the premier journal on sustainable building practices and products, published since 1992
- a complete directory of environmentally preferable building products
The trial will run until mid-November. Please give it a try and send any questions or feedback to Michele Laing, the Architecture Librarian here at Musagetes.
The staff at Musagetes Architecture Library want to show our appreciation for all the students, faculty, staff and community members that make our job worth doing.
Please drop by the library for some refreshments and other goodies... all day long!
Confirm your name release status with us (yes OR no) and you will be entered into a draw to win great prizes from the Melville and Grand Cafes!
"Open access" is the term used to describe scholarly literature available free of charge that can be copied, distributed, and used with proper attribution. There are a lot of benefits to Open Access. To find out more, check out our Open Access FAQ.
The Library needs student, faculty and staff participants for a usability study of Primo Central.
Primo Central allows you to find articles, books and more with a single search. No previous experience with it is necessary.
The study team is coming to Musagetes on Thursday October 27. Participation will only take an hour, and you will be entered into a draw for an iPad 2!
If you would like to give your feedback, please email Marian Davies and tell her you want to register for the Musagetes study next Thursday. Choose from the following sessions: 10-11am, 11:30-12:30 or 1:30-2:30pm.
We encourage you to volunteer and make your voice heard. This is an opportunity to win a great prize and help the library decide if Primo Central is right for our users...YOU!
It's the first day of the fall term and the library is already bustling with students! This is the library staff's favourite time of year... we love to see the space full of new faces and students we haven't seen in a while.
A lot is new this year. Most importantly, we have new hours:
Monday to Thursday: 9am to 9pm Friday: 9am to 6pm Saturday & Sunday: 1pm to 5pm
Some of you might be surprised to see Linda Finn in the library. She was only on loan to ACM last year and we're happy to have her back.
We have received lots of new materials over the summer, including a large addition to our film collection. We also purchased some moveable white boards that you will notice around the library... use them! We have markers, erasers and cleaner... just ask at the desk.
What's really exciting for us is a brand new scanner, and it's great! No need to log in to any computer... just press one button and the images get saved directly to your USB memory. And thanks to the overhead camera, you can take scans of almost anything - not just books! I've already used it, and it's fun and easy to use.
There will be a lot happening this year at Musagetes, so keep and eye on the blog or follow us on Twitter.
For those of you who were not around this summer, the 2A class put on a spectacular play called Ilion, their take on the legend of Troy. You can watch the whole play on YouTube, starting with part one:
It's that time of year when all the gardens are flourishing with new life. Don't have a garden? Perhaps try putting your old comics (or textbooks?) in the window and get growing!
The process is simple... stand a book on its end, sprinkle with seeds (radish, broccoli, basil...) and water. Sprouts start to appear in days! A great way to upcycle materials that would otherwise end up in a landfill or recycling centre...
LEGO is paying tribute to it's second iconic architect with a new addition to the LEGO Architecture collection. Own your very own piece of modernist history, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
The Conference theme,‘Ideas in Things’, addresses the unity of the discipline of architecture, offering an optimistic critique of the current separation of the academy and practice, or the mind and the hand. A book and film will document the conference.
Pine Point is a beautiful and sad interactive film that explores the history and people of a planned mining community in Northern Canada.
The film visits the site where the town once stood, and many of the people who used to live there, asking many questions. What are the lasting effects of a town that was built from nothing and returned to nothing? What truth is there in our memories? Are we defined by the places we grew up? What are communities really made of?
Got deadlines on the brain? Crits haunting your dreams? Pulling too many all-nighters?
It's that time of year again, but the library has something that will keep you going... sugar!
Step away from your desk and come take a guess at how many candies are in our Valentine's jar. Not only will guessing the closest number win you a ridiculous amount of candy to share with the people you love, but we will also throw in a $10 Shoppers Drugmart Gift Card and... wait for it... A MONKEY! A monkey holding a heart!!!
We even have a prize for the runner-up because really, if you even come close you deserve something.
We will be picking the winners first thing on Valentine's Day... So put your spatial senses to the test today!
