As a response to the growing concerns of the spread of COVID-19 in Ottawa, the University of Ottawa announced on Monday that all of their library locations would be closed for the day, while most food services on campus will close indefinitely.
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Leslie Weir, the University of Ottawa’s former university librarian, has been appointed as the next librarian archivist of Canada
In all my four years at this university not once has anyone mentioned the fact that we have a library! I’ve spent nights hunched over in dorm rooms, finishing essays by lamplight, paying for research from journals that I could have accessed for free?? I am livid.
Calgary’s Central Library answers a question that has been asked about libraries for decades. How will they adjust to information being so readily available through technology?
Debating whether or not the U of O’s decision to cancel these subscriptions is a good or bad idea is really beside the point. The main issue here is the process by which the decision is made in the first place.
Last month, the University of Ottawa released a strategy to cut costs by reducing spending on subscriptions to thousands of online and print journals and databases to meet the balance of $1.527 million by Dec. 2016.
Resident sexpert Di Daniels thinks that lovemaking is the ultimate motivator, especially when it comes to exams.
I’m not suggesting you go to Morisset and run up and down the giant, echoing staircase. I’m talking about the public library.
