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library matters @ mcgill v olume 5 | issue 2 Richard Virr and Janine Schmidt took Lee Library Matters @ McGill McClenny from the United States Consulate General Montreal on a tour of the Library’s Volume 5 | Issue 2 | FEBRUARY 2009 Abraham Lincoln Exhibition FROM THE TRENHOLME DIRECTOR OF LIBRARIES e know that the Library as lending real books, e-books, IPods, and is purchasing increasing laptops, we may indeed be lending e-book numbers of e-books and readers like the Sony Reader and Ama- JANINE SCHMIDT, that users are reading them in growing zon’s Kindle. RENHOLME DIRECTOR W T numbers. Until now, we have purchased Our current exhibitions have proved to OF LIBRARIES most of them for use by our faculty and be very popular. The celebration of Abra- student on laptops and PCs via our library ham Lincoln’s 200th birthday on February website, although some are being used by 12th led to an exhibition on the foyer of some of our clients via PDAs and other level 4 of the McLennan Library Build- mobile devices. Recent articles in The ing of selected items from the Joseph N. Globe and Mail (http://www.theglobeand- Nathanson Collection of Lincolniana. INSIDE THIS ISSUE mail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090227. The Nathanson Lincoln Collection is one webooks0228/EmailBNStory/globebooks/ of the most unusual research collections DYNAMIC FLOOR PLANS & TECHNOLOGY TIDBIT: home) have highlighted the growth – the housed in Rare Books and Special Col- on page 3 future is indeed now. Lisa Charters, Se- lection. In 1986, Dr. Joseph N. Nathanson nior Vice-President of Digital Production (1895-1989) donated to his alma mater, CURRENT EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS: on page 4 for Random House was quoted as saying the contents of his eclectic Abraham Lin- E-books will be available, essentially, on any coln collection. For almost fifty years, Dr. ORGANIZATIONAL & STAFF DEVELOPMENT NEWS: and all mobile devices, and since pretty much Nathanson avidly collected Lincolniana on page 6 everyone has a mobile phone, that changes the game completely. In the near future, as well CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 1 library matters @ mcgill v olume 5 | issue 2 FROM THE DIRECTOR - CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Book a room! Library Matters @ McGill from his base in Ithaca, New York where he taught Obstetrics and Gynaecology at roup study rooms in the Humani- The Library Matters @ McGill newsletter, Cornell University for five decades. The col- ties and Social Sciences Library, brought to you by the you-never-heard-it- lection is comprised of approximately four HowardG Ross Library of Management, from-us editors, seeks to exchange and en- thousand items including books, pamphlets, Macdonald Campus Library, Marvin courage ideas, innovations and information prints, manuscripts, ephemera and realia. Duchow Music Library and Schulich from McGill Library staff at all levels. Also on display is the Second Life approach Library of Science and Engineering can to Abraham Lincoln which includes several now be booked by students and staff. The newsletter is published monthly. The images from our collections. Clients can book a group study room by latest issue, as well as an archive of past A small exhibition on Charles Darwin going to the Library catalogue, http:// issues, can be found at www.mcgill.ca/ marks the 150th celebration of his life and catalogue.mcgill.ca/ and clicking on library-about/pubs/newsletter/. some items are on display within the Rare ‘Room Booking’ on the right-hand side Books and Special Collections on Level 4 of of the page. We welcome your contributions. The dead- the McLennan Library Building. line for submissions is the first day of the In addition, on the main entry floor of the issue month. Send your input to the you- Humanities and Social Sciences Library is a never-heard-it-from-us editorial team: splendid exhibition on the Moravian begin- nings of Canadian Inuit literature. Items Louisa Piatti, [email protected] displayed have been selected from McGill’s Jessica Hunt, [email protected] Rare Books and Special Collections includ- Cathy Martin, [email protected] ing The Lawrence Lande Collection of Ca- Joel Natanblut, [email protected] nadiana, The Lande Eskimo Collection and The Lande Arkin Collection supplemented by the collections of McGill’s Humanities & Social Sciences Library and McGill’s Education Library. This exhibition is part of the “Entendre et communiquer les voix du Nunavik/ Hear- ing and sharing the voices of Nunavik”, a joint Université du Québec à Montréal and McGill University initiative funded by the Canadian program of the International Po- lar Year (IPY), 2008-2011. This exhibition is also supported by a McGill University- SSHRC Institutional grant. It was made possible in part thanks to the AVATAQ Cultural Institute. This exhibition was pre- pared by Sharon Rankin, Marianne Sten- baek, Lindsay Terry and Jennifer Campbell. Thanks and congratulations to all involved. The exhibitions provide us with a wonder- ful opportunity to extend our collections to wider viewing by both the McGill and wider communities. Thanks to all who have contributed to putting them together. We are also working on online versions of the exhibitions so that they might remain with us in perpetuity. 2 library matters @ mcgill v olume 5 | issue 2 DYNAMIC FLOOR PLANS by Mutugi Gathuri & Greg Houston, database containing information about If no other changes or corrections are Library Technology Services the shelving ranges. There is a database required, it is anticipated that the dynam- interface that library staff can use for up- ic floor plans will be completed and avail- he dynamic floor plans are inter- dates when changes to physical shelving able for all branches by the end of 2009. active maps that visually indicate are made. where items found in the cata- Version 1 of the dynamic floorplans Tlogue are physically shelved in the library was launched for the Humanities and branch. When one clicks on the map icon Social Sciences Library last September as for an item, a floor plan appears with the a pilot project. Version 2 of the dynamic appropriate range highlighted. Users can floorplans for the Schulich Library of manipulate the built-in zoom and pan the Science and Engineering Depart- tools to navigate around the map and to ment should be available by this spring. see detailed information close-up. Other Version 2 corrects some minor problems features include a print option and an and incorporates feedback from library interactive legend. staff, such as making the map icon ap- The floorplans were created by con- pear sooner in the search results page and verting existing floor plans into vector displaying the title and author of the item The dynamic floor plans are popular with digital-based maps. The resulting dy- sought on the floorplan. Version 2 chang- laptop users namic floor plans are provided via a web es will be applied to HSSL floorplans as interface to library clients and a backend well. Technology Tidbit by Louise O’Neill, Associate Director, Library Technology Services electronic post-it notes Do you like to stick notes on your monitor as reminders? Did you know that Outlook has its own electronic post- it notes? Just type Ctrl – Shift – N and a blank yellow note will pop up. You can make it larger or smaller, and move it around the screen to a convenient location. You can even use it to make quick notes, then cut and paste into another document, and close it when done. Version 2 of the dynamic floor plans 3 library matters @ mcgill v olume 5 | issue 2 CURRENT EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS television career includes “Street Legal”, Building. The majority of the items on “Side Effects” and “Shades of Black.” display are from the Blacker-Wood collec- From Page to Stage: Albert Schultz has also directed several tion of natural history and Rare Books and Shakespeare the Soulpepper productions as well as Susan Special Collections. Director Coyne’s Kingfisher Days for the Tarragon Theatre. Schultz is the recipient of several awards including a Gemini Award, the Joan Chalmers National Award for Artis- The Moravian Begin- tic Direction, Toronto Life Award to name nings of Canadian a few. Mr. Schultz received an honorary Inuit Literature doctorate at Queen’s University in 2008. Happy Anniversary – to both Charles Darwin and On the Origin of Photo of three Inuit children courtesy of Unity Species! Archives, Herrnhut, Saxony, Germany. Moravian Archives Herrnhut, LBS 1957. Exhibition Main floor, Albert Schultz Actor, director, and found- McLennan Library Building ing artistic director of Toronto’s Soulpep- February 5 – April 30, 2009 per Theatre Company he Inuit have a strong culture, Thursday, March 19, 2009 which is remarkably adaptable and 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Exhibition supportedT by a complex, widely-spoken Moyse Hall The exhibit is open Monday – Friday, language, however, its written heritage— Arts Building, McGill University 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. historical, documentary and fictitious— 853 Sherbrooke Street West remains little known and somewhat inac- Reception to follow Lande Reading Room, Rare Books and cessible to the public and even to Arctic RSVP by March 12 Special Collections communities. 514-398-4681 Email 4th floor, McLennan Library Building McGill University Library and the February 5 – March 31, 2009 Cultural Studies Program in the English Annual Shakespeare Lecture Department, are showcasing an exhibi- presented by the Friends of the Library n honour of the 200th birthday of tion tracing the beginnings of literacy and and Making Publics Project Charles Darwin, February 12, 1809 – written literature for the Inuit living in theI same day as Abraham Lincoln – and Nunatsiavut (Labrador) and, to a lesser lbert Schultz studied drama at To- the 150th anniversary of the publication extent, in Nunavik.