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During this time of crisis, libraries have shown not only their resilience and value but the fact that they are able to adapt, and continue to support local community members even in the direst of circumstances. More importantly perhaps they have alerted both the public and those in government to their importance in the modern world….Continue Reading It Took COVID Closures to Reveal Just How Much Libraries Do Beyond Lending Books

Anti-Black racism: It’s everyone’s fight…Continue Reading Anti-Black racism is everyone’s fight – a message from the Public Service Alliance of Canada

Two great resources from Yukon College from staff and students come from CBC through curio.ca and from the National Film Board through NFB.ca We have licenses that allow streaming at home and in the classroom. There is a large variety of Canadian material – historical and topical….Continue Reading Curio.ca and NFB.ca

Article here AbstractOpen educational resources (OER), including open textbooks, are free, adaptable learning resources. The integration of these materials in place of commercial textbooks allows for considerable financial savings for students and creates opportunities for more active and engaged learning. The growing interest in the use of OER at a Western Canadian university led to…Continue Reading Open Textbooks in an Introductory Sociology Course in Canada: Student Views and Completion Rates

We have recently migrated library systems to OCLC WorldCat and that includes a new way of finding out what resources we have at the library. New help for searching our discovery page. Also, linking to articles has never been easier. From campus, simply click on the link. From home, enter in your Office 365 credentials and then…Continue Reading New way to find materials from the Yukon College Library Services Team

Here’s a plug for CBC North, one of my go-to sites for information and news about the North….Continue Reading CBC North

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2018/12/misleading-on-fair-dealing-part-10/…Continue Reading Michael Geist on Fair Dealing, 10 and last in a series

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/publishers-still-fighting-bury-uni……Continue Reading Publishers still look at PSEs as cash cows

Help Us Keep the Archive Free, Accessible, and Private https://blog.archive.org/2016/11/29/help-us-keep-the-archive-free-access……Continue Reading Internet Archive seeks to replicate a version in Canada

Here’s a golden opportunity for librarians – help parents and teachers get kids information savvy. http://www.wsj.com/articles/most-students-dont-know-when-news-is-fake-st……Continue Reading Students can’t tell difference between fake and real news