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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Lorie Kloda as Vice-Dean of ۲ݮƵ University Library, for a five-year term, effective April 17, 2023. Dr. Kloda joins the senior management team led by Trenholme Dean of Libraries Guylaine Beaudry. Kloda will provide leadership for initiatives supporting the Library’s strategic directions and will oversee a portfolio of units including finance/planning & resources, facilities, communications, assessment, and Indigenous Initiatives.

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Published on: 23 Mar 2023

On Monday, March 20the Macdonald Campus Library will be opening up the Seed Library for online orders. The seed catalogue will be made available to ۲ݮƵ students, faculty, and staff on opening day. Please note that there is a limit of 25 seed packets per borrower.

If you're not yet a member of the Seed Library, please fill out the registrationform.

Published on: 20 Mar 2023

Updated March 4

The technical issue we were experiencing with ProQuest Central links has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.

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We are currently experiencing an issue when accessing ProQuest Central links within Discovery (Sofia catalogue). The links are resolving to an error message that reads:

“The link you clicked triggered a search in ProQuest that did not find the item you were expecting. Required link information may be missing or incorrect. Ask your librarian or administrator for help.”

Classified as: Library news, Technical issue
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Published on: 3 Mar 2023

Updated February 28

The technical issue we were experiencing withDeGruyter has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.


The Library is experiencing a technical issue with DeGruyter where access to all links is being blocked, and instead we are seeing an “Unspecified server error” message.

We are currently working with DeGruyter to restore access and apologize for any inconvenience.

Classified as: Library news, Technical issue
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Published on: 27 Feb 2023

The Library is pleased to announce that ۲ݮƵ corresponding authors publishing with five Canadian Science Publishing journals now have the option to make their articlesopen access at no cost.

Please see below for the full details and eligibility criteria.


Eligible titles:

Classified as: Library news, Friends of the Library, Open Access, open access agreement
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Published on: 3 Feb 2023

What is Proactive Chat?

If you visited the Library website recently, you may have noticed a red conversation bubble icon and pop-up window located in the bottom right hand corner asking you if you need help.

This is a new feature of the Library’s chat service meant to help you reach librarians when you need it the most. This proactive chat window is directly linked to our chat reference service, so if you use it, you will be in direct communication with a librarian that can help you find what you were looking for.

Classified as: Library news, reference, Friends of the Library
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Published on: 30 Jan 2023

Instructors can now help students connect to research and information resources by adding the Library Guides tool to myCourses. This dynamic tool can be inserted into myCourses in two ways, either directly in the course module and accessible via the left-side menu, or in the course’s top-level menu. Each course can be connected to pre-assigned subject guides that will populate automatically, or to one or more niche guides curated by the relevant subject librarian.

Classified as: myCourses
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Published on: 25 Jan 2023

Starting January 15, 2023, ۲ݮƵ-affiliated corresponding authors will have theoption to make their work open access for no cost in Wiley’sReview thelist of eligible titles(XLS will download).

Note this deal does not apply to Wiley’s fully open access journals.

Classified as: Library news, Open Access, oa, open access agreement
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Published on: 19 Jan 2023

As of Thursday, December 1, ۲ݮƵ students are able to access the Nahum Gelber Law Library 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As agreed between the Students' Society of ۲ݮƵ University (SSMU) and the Law Students Association (LSA), the Nahum Gelber Law Library will limit access to the three upper floors of the library to Law students only during the December 7 to 21 examination period.

Details are as follows:

Classified as: Opening hours, exam period, user services
Published on: 28 Nov 2022

Call for Proposals:

Are you a ۲ݮƵ researcher, student, or staff member involved in a project to promote or incorporate open research practices? The Organizing Committee invites lightning talk proposals for the inaugural ۲ݮƵ Library open research symposium: The future is open: Building an open research community at ۲ݮƵ. Lightning talks consist of a 5-minute presentation highlighting open research, cutting-edge practice, or both. We are hoping to feature a range of presentations representing many disciplines.

Classified as: Library news, Research, Open Access
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Published on: 22 Nov 2022

Updated December 13, 2022. Please note, the technical issue that had beenaffecting our reception of your notifications from the “Report a Broken Link” function has been resolved. Thank you for your patience.


Due to a technical issue affecting our reception of your notifications from the “Report a Broken Link” function, we are temporarily hiding the link from the catalogue interface.

Classified as: Library news, Technical issue
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Published on: 3 Nov 2022

Due to an electrical shutdown, the Macdonald Campus Library will close at 5PM on Tuesday, November 1.

This shutdown is necessary for Facilities to relocate an electrical disconnect switch at the Macdonald Stewart Building.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Classified as: temporary closure, temporary service disruption
Published on: 31 Oct 2022

Posted on behalf of ۲ݮƵ Campus Public Safety


As part of ۲ݮƵ University’s ongoing efforts towards ensuring a safe environment, the Fire Prevention service will once again be performing annual inspections of the fire detection and suppression systems. This yearLeclercwill be performing these tests which involve verifying all components of systems within each building.

Building affected: McLennan-Redpath Complex

Dates: Tuesday, November 15 to Friday, November 18, 2022

Classified as: building maintenance
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Published on: 21 Oct 2022

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