What's up with the whiteboard in the Learning Commons? Is there science being done at Robertson Laboratories? Most importantly, will there be cake?

Find out by opening the last portals!

Peter Rukavina - the Robertson Library's Hacker-in-Residence has posted slides from his talk - What is Open Data?  as part of the International Open Access Week celebrations at the Robertson Library.  It was a really informative and inspiring presentation.

Please join us for a presentation on 

Speaker: Peter Rukavina, Robertson Library’s Hacker in Residence
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2015
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Robertson Library, Rm 312 (Upper Level)

The speaker will present a tour of his work in open data/open government over the last decade, including provincial and municipal examples, and focusing on how open data can be used by citizens to good end.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1634455466805340/

Please join us for the launch of data.upei.ca - UPEI’s New Research Data Management Site

Speaker: Mark Leggott, University Librarian
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Time: 12:30 pm
Place: Robertson Library LINC (Rm 265)

The session will provide an overview of open data and the new suite of RDM tools and services for UPEI researchers and graduate students.

https://www.facebook.com/events/170617783279185/

Congratulations to Amber Ellsworth, who won the grand prize of a Samsung tablet for participating in a Library Tour last month!

Thanks to everyone who took a tour; we hope you had an enjoyable experience. If you missed the opportunity for a tour of the Library, we will be offering more tours in January 2016, so stay tuned for dates and times!

Robertson Library will be open 12:00 Noon - 10:00 pm on Thanksgiving Day, Monday, October 12th.

Happy Thanksgiving!

From UPEI Campus News...

Indian School Road reading

From UPEI Campus News ... 

In July 2011, the family of Harry and Marjorie MacLauchlan of Stanhope, PEI made another leadership gift to UPEI to create a substantial program of awards to encourage and recognize student writing achievement. The gift is to honour H. Wade MacLauchlan’s twelve years of service as UPEI president and vice-chancellor, and to recognize the importance of effective writing as a foundational skill for academic success and lifelong learning.  

The MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing is the largest such student-oriented program in Canada. There are up to 57 prizes available for returning undergraduate students who produced outstanding written work in the previous academic year (September 1 – August 31), as a substantive role in their academic course work or for the broader community audience, and who showed most improvement through a writing support program coordinated through the Webster Centre.  

There are also up to 3 prizes available for faculty or staff members, who have shown exceptional leadership in the development of writing among students at UPEI. For application information, please check out the following links: 

MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Academic) – up to 35 prizes 

MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Community) – up to 11 prizes 

MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Webster Centre) – up to 11 prizes 

MacLauchlan Prizes for Effective Writing (Staff/Faculty) - up to 3 prizes 

For more details regarding this awards program, please feel free to contact Keith Lawlor in the Scholarships, Awards and Financial Aid office at kjlawlor@upei.ca or (902) 620-5187.

The annual Hajj pilgrimage, one of the 5 pillars of Islam, will take place the week of Sept 20, 2015.

Learn more about it with the Credo Reference Topic Page about the Hajj and the Credo Reference Topic Page about Mecca.

Learn about the Library's resources AND be entered to win a $50 gift card AND a Samsung tablet!

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