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York University Resource Centres

Introduction

There have been many changes to “Where Are They?” since the last edition. Many centres have had changes to their location, telephone number, or collection contents. Some have closed, while other new centres have opened. “Where Are They?” highlights the diversity of resources available at York. If any centres have been inadvertently overlooked, please inform Moira Scott (mhscott@yorku.ca), University Librarian’s Office, Room 310, Scott Library

Comments and suggestions for improvement would be appreciated.

List of Resource Centres at York:

CANADIAN CENTRE FOR GERMAN AND EUROPEAN STUDIES

Location: 230 York Lanes
Phone: 416-736-5695
Fax: 416-736-5696
Email: ccges@yorku.ca
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (Fall/Winter)
Who Can Use: Anyone
Who Can Borrow: Reference only
Who’s In Charge: Dr. Mark Webber
Website: http://www.ccges.ca/

Allied with similar centres and institutes around the globe, the CCGES, comprised of professors with very diverse interests – from economics to fine arts, aims to educate the next generation of Canadian experts on contemporary Germany and Europe, stimulate and conduct research on Germany and Europe, and promote educated social awareness of German and European issues in Canada. It functions jointly with a Centre at the University of Montreal.

The Resource room contains selected German-language periodicals and newspapers. It also has materials (books, CD-ROMs, videos, etc) most of which are in German and focus on twentieth-century and contemporary Gemany. Information on York University’s German partner institutions and other Eurpoean universities is available. The Resource room provides Internet access and work stations for students.

CAREER CENTRE REFERENCE LIBRARY

Location: N101 Student Services Centre
Phone: not available
Fax: 416-736-5696
Hours: Monday-Thursday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Who Can Use: Anyone
Who Can Borrow: Reference only
Who’s In Charge: Stephen Anderson

The Career Centre has a collection of over 700 non-circulating resources specializing in all aspects of career planning and job search techniques. Our collection includes sections on the following broad areas: career planning, occupational research, job search, building work experience, working abroad and education.

This information is supplemented with access to two computer programs, Career Cruising and E-Choices. The programs cove a wide range of career related tips, from researching employers and educational institutions, to learning how to write resumes and cover letters.

CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL AND SECURITY STUDIES – R.B. BYERS MEMORIAL RESEARCH LIBRARY

Location: 353 York Lanes
Phone: 416-736-5156
Fax: 416-736-5156
Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., September to April

Summer Hours vary – please check www.yorku.ca/yciss/
Who Can Use: York University community and research community at large
Who Can Borrow: Reference only, non-circulating
Who’s In Charge: Joan Broussard
Website: http://www.yorku.ca/yciss
Email yciss@yorku.ca

The York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS) is dedicated to the study of international peace and security issues. YCISS activities range from large collaborative research projects, individual faculty research projects, seminar series, conferences and publications.

The collection consists of about 2,500 books and 100 periodical subscriptions covering the following topics: Canadian defence policy; security studies; arms control and disarmament; regional security; and conflict management. The Centre’s publications and conference proceedings are available in the Library. The Library’s books and collection of periodical articles as well as the Post-Communist Studies Programme’s Russion collection may be searched from an in-house database located at http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/ylibrary/library_main.htm

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN WORK AND SOCIETY

Location: 276 York Lanes
Phone: 416-736-2100 ext. 55612
Fax: 416-736-5916
Email: crws@yorku.ca
Hours: September to April: Monday – Friday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

May to August: By appointment
Who Can Use: Students, faculty, staff
Who Can Borrow: No borrowing – photocopying is permitted
Who’s In Charge:

Administrator: Robin Smith

Director: Norene Pupo

Website: http://www.yorku.ca/crws

This centre has an assorted of primary and secondary sources relating to all aspects of work and society. The primary documents include the publications of various labour unions and organizations, including the Confederation des Syndicats Nationaux, the Centrale de l’enseignment du Quebec, the Canadian Union of Autoworkers, and the Canadian Labour Congress among many others. There are also publications produced by the Ontario Government. Other primary documents include a cabinet of collective agreements and human rights tribunals.

Secondary sources include the publications of various industrial relations centres, including that of Queen’s labour journals, including Labour/Le Travail, and over five hundred books about work, unions, arbitration and related topics. The centre also has considerable collection of articles and publications on numerous topics, including NAFTA, health and safety issues and the relationship of work and family.

The materials are pre-dominantly about North America, but there was a noticeable collection of materials on Australia and some on Europe.

The collection can be accessed through a well-organized binder.

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (CERLAC)

Location: 240 York Lanes
Phone: 416-736-5237
Fax: 416-736-5737

Email:

cerlac@yorku.ca
Hours: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.; (closed on Fridays during the summer months)
Who Can Use: Anyone
Who Can Borrow: Reference only
Who’s In Charge:

Director: Eduardo Canel

Administrative Assistant: Shana Shubs

Website: http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac

This library, with about half of its material in Spanish, provides information on current social science research as well as Canadian-Latin American/Caribbean relations, particularly in political science, sociology, economics and history. A specialty of the collection is documents not normally found in libraries, such as occasional paper series, conference papers, and newsletters. These documents come particularly from social science research centres with which CERLAC is in contact.

CERLAC’s Documentation Centre was formed originally (1978) by joining CERLAC’s collection with that of the Latin American Research Unit (LARU), an interdisciplinary study group of Latin Americans based primarily in Toronto (no longer in existence). The Docmentation Centre continues to grow, mainly on the basis of exchange agreements and donations. There are periodicals in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian, including some not found in the York University Libraries. Some of the more important documents from international organizations are collected, in particular from the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Human rights documentation is also available. The Centre has a book collection, purchased or donated on the basis of special research interests. It also has available issues of the LARU publications, LARU Studies and Working Papers.

Items are searchable in an electronic catalogue, and shelved alphabetically by country and subject.

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC’S JAZZ PROGRAM RESOURCE COLLECTION

Please note that the Jazz Resource Centre has been merged with the materials in the Sound and Moving Image Library, Scott Library.

EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTRE

Location: Room 3144, TEL Bldg
Phone: 416-736-5259
Fax: 416-650-5080
Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday – Closed
Who Can Use: Anyone connected with the Faculty of Education
Who Can Borrow: York University Education students
Who’s In Charge: Librarian: Ana Uzelac

Website:

Administered by the Faculty of Education and adjoining the Education computer lab, this Centre has as its goal, the support of teacher candidates in their teaching practicum work. The collection comprises approximately 20,000 volumes and includes: books, Ontario Ministry of Education documents, teaching materials (kits, reproducible activities, textbooks, manipulatives), video and audio cassettes, CD-ROMs and software – in short, materials to support classroom instruction from kindergarten through secondary. In addition, there are Deaf Education materials, as well as Faculty of Education master’s research projects. Finally, the ERC subscribes to approximately 20 journals for educators, with a retention policy of the last five years only. The ERC and computer lab contain approximately 35 Internet-connected computers, which may only be used by Education students, staff and faculty. The ERC fully catalogs its materials using Dewey Decimal classification.

FOUNDERS COLLEGE READING & LISTENING ROOM AND ARTHUR HABERMAN ART GALLERY

Location: Rooms 207B and 206, Founders
Phone: 416-736-2100 ext. 66932 or 22208
Hours: September – April: Monday – Friday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. (Closed during the summer)
Who Can Use: Anyone
Who Can Borrow: No loans
Who’s In Charge:

Director, Reading & Listening Room: Yohan Mahimwala

Curator, Arthur Haberman Art Gallery: Angie Aranda

The Reading & Listening Room (Room 207B) is a browsing library offering periodicals, an irresistible book collection to please all tastes, a wide selection of magazines, two computers with network drops, a photocopy machine, and beverages and snacks. The R&L is well-lit, and has comfortable couches, chairs, and reading tables.

The Arthur Haberman Art Gallery (Room 206) is an exhibition space exclusive to Founders College, hosting circulating shows throughout the year. This space is available bi-monthly, featuring the works of artists and organizations within the York community. AHAG serves as a student forum which seeks to offer the necessary flexibility, and welcomes and encourages exprimentation in both form and concept, resulting in a vast scope of work.

FRENCH FACULTY RESOURCE ROOM

Location: Room N745, Ross Building
Phone: 416-736-5086
Hours: Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Who Can Use: York University faculty
Who Can Borrow: Non-circulating collection
Who’s In Charge: Administrative Assistant: Liliana Guadagnoli

The collection is not being added to on a regular basis, and faculty use the Centre primarily for its computer workstations with word-processing, email, and Internet access as well as research work. The Centre is intended to serve the needs of York University French Studies faculty members.

HARRIET TUBMAN RESOURCE CENTRE ON THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

Location: 202B Founders College

Phone:

Email:

416-736-2100 x 33058

tubman@yorku.ca

Hours: Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Who Can Use: York University faculty
Who Can Borrow: Non-circulating collection
Who’s In Charge: Administrative Assistant: Liliana Guadagnoli

LaMARSH CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON VIOLENCE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Michael Smith Resource Centre (within Research Centre)

Location: 5022 TEL Bldg. (5th Floor)
Phone: 416-736-5528
Fax: 416-736-5647
Email: lamarsh@yorku.ca
Hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Who Can Use: Anyone
Who Can Borrow: No loans
Who’s In Charge: Director: Dr. Jennifer Connolly

Centre Coordinator: Irene N. Backhouse
Website: http://www.yorku.ca/lamarsh/

The LaMarsh Centre is mandated to support, conduct, and disseminate the results of research on violence and conflict resolution in the broad sense. From its inception, the general aim of the Centre has been to carry out research that is relevant to the social concerns of the residents of Ontario and beyond.

Conveying information to the community about the findings from our research is a key element of the LaMarsh Research Centre. The LaMarsh Research Centre is home to the Michael Smith Resource Centre. The Resource Centre is open to all members of the university and general community. The Resource Centre includes journals, books, program manuals, videos and reports. Visitors to the Centre may use any of these documents, although typically we do not lend these materials.

NELLIE LANGFORD ROWELL LIBRARY

Location:

Room 204, Founders College

Phone:

416-736-2100 ext. 33219

Email:

nlrowell@yorku.ca

Hours:

Fall/Winter Terms

Monday – Thursday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Summer Term

Monday -Friday 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

The Summer Term hours begin May 7, 2007. The library will be closed from August 20, 2007 to September 10, 2007.

Who Can Use:

Anyone

Who Can Borrow:

Any member of the library can borrow books; there is a three book limit per user.. There is no charge for membership. The loan period is two weeks with the possibility of three renewals.

Who’s In Charge:

Library Coordinator: Vicky Drummond

Website:

http://www.yorku.ca/nlrowell/

A comprehensive collection of materials on women’s issues, the Nellie Langford Rowell Library is housed in Founders College. The nucleus of the library is the YMCA Women’s Collection which was purchased for York University by Mary Jackman.

There are 19,000 books on many matters of interest to women, especially Canadian women. An excellent selection of journals is maintained — there are over 140 titles, including nearly all Canadian journals and a selection of British and American. The books are arranged by subject and access to the collection is through a computer catalogue. Also Nellie book holdings are listed in the YUL catalogue, though recent acquisitions are not included immediately. The major journal indexes, Studies on Women Abstracts and Resources for Feminist Research / Documentation sur la Recherche Feministe , lead the user to the journal articles. Government documents on women’s issues are available, as are many short-run or out-of-print sources, especially Canadian ones. Reading tables can be used by anyone doing research in the library.

The Library has a photocopier available for library users.

PSYCHOLOGY RESOURCE CENTRE, FACULTY OF ARTS

Location: Room 162B, Behavioural Science Building
Phone: 416-736-55115 ext. 77189
Hours: Monday – Thursday: 9 – 11 a.m. or 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1-4 p.m. (closed 12 – 1 p.m.)

Friday – a.m. only – Changes will be posted
Who Can Use: Psychology faculty, graduate students, and 4th year honour students
Who Can Borrow: Psychology faculty and graduate students may borrow some items on short-term loan.
Who’s In Charge: Coordinator: Mary Ellen Maleki
Website: http://www.yorku.ca/psycentr

The Psychology Resource Centre is primarily a reference library for the Department of Psychology. The collection includes reference tools, books, periodicals, dissertations, theses, research papers by faculty members, major/minor papers, psychological testing material, and therapy related material. The core journal collection is held for the current year and the previous five years. The test collection is under constant review and upgrade. It now numbers over 3,500 test titles ¿ this includes tests in compendias, commercially published tests (including manuals, scoring keys, and some multiple copies of major tests), and tests from original sources.

The books, journals and the test collection are arranged by title. The dissertations and theses are arranged by author. Special services provided by the Centre include a reserve shelf for graduate courses, faculty reprints, limited AV equipment, psychological testing software, past graduate course descriptions, etc. Resources to locate psychological materials not held by the Centre are also collected. These include publisher’s catalogues for psychological tests.

The Centre issues a newsletter for the Psychology Department. The newsletter includes reports of upcoming conferences, colloqia, new publications, courses, workshops as well as job postings.

RETIREMENT PLANNING CENTRE

Location: Room 101 Central Square

Phone:

Email:

416-736-2100 ext. 66228


retire@yorku.ca

Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Who Can Use: Support staff, faculty, and retirees
Who Can Borrow: Members of the York Community can borrow books for a 3-week period, and retirees
Who’s In Charge: Coordinator: Karen Gray

Administrative Assistant: How Chee Un

This small resource centre has books, articles, and pamphlets on a wide range of topics related to retirement and aging, including housing; budgets and pensions; financial planning; seniors organizations; academic studies; employment issues; health and safety; leisure and recreation; etc.

There are some periodicals, Canadian Journal on Aging Generations, Aging: The Journal of the International Federation on Aging. This is the place to visit if you are looking for material to help you plan for your retirement, are coping with aging parents, or are doing selected research on aging or retirement.

Access to the collection is through a printed list, available on-line (yorku.ca/retire) arranged first by subject, then by title. The material is shelved by subject area.

SPANISH RESOURCE CENTRE/CENTRO DE RECURSOS DE ESPANOL

Location: Room 029, Vanier
Phone: 416-650-8036 or ext. 58036
Hours: Monday-Thursday 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Who Can Use: Anyone
Who Can Borrow: Anyone
Email: src@yorku.ca
Website: www.yorku.ca/src/

A small collection of books, journals and videos in Spanish on various topics including Spanish language learning, art, history, political science, etc. available to members of the York community. The centre also organizes cultural events.

STUDENT PEER SUPPORT CENTRE

Location:

Suite C449D, Student Centre

Phone:

Email:

416-736-5494

spsc@yorku.ca

Hours: Monday-Thursday 10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. ; Friday 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Who Can Use: Anyone
Who Can Borrow: Anyone. Most information is free.
Who’s In Charge: Aliya Rahim, Jay Naik & Mariana Zamriga

The Student Peer Support Centre maintains a small resource area in the Centre. Resource material consists primarily of pamphlets and community information which may be of interest to university students. Pamphlets deal with such issues as sexuality, family planning, health concerns, etc. Volunteers can also use the Centre as a source for referrals to other agencies as well. A tutor referral listing is also available.There is also peer counselling that takes place where Peers are there to lend an ear for troubled students.THESE ARE NOT PROFESSIONAL COUNSELLORS.

VISUAL RESOURCE CENTRE

Location: Room 274, Centre for Fine Arts
Phone: 416-736-5534
Hours: September – June:Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

July-August, closed
Who Can Use: Any full-time or part-time faculty members at York. Any students in the Visual Arts with written permission from their instructor for those courses.
Who Can Borrow: Faculty. Students can only borrow through their course directors.
Who’s In Charge: Coordinator: Michele Métraux

The Library has a collection of approximately 300,000 slides covering painting, sculpture and architecture, eastern and western traditions. Slides are organized by country of origin, then artist and work. Slides for architecture are organized by country then city/town/region.

Staff needed to be consulted for access to contents of the slide collection. Electronic database is currently in progress.

There are a small number of portable projectors available for circulation to Visual Arts faculty. Light tables are available in the Library.

WOMEN’S CENTRE, GLENDON COLLEGE

Location: Hilliard Residence, Room D124, Glendon College
Phone: 416-736-2100 ext. 88197
Hours: September-April:Monday-Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Who Can Use: Anyone
Who Can Borrow: York students, faculty, administration
Who’s In Charge: Coordinator: Tara Gazey

Materials cover books, periodicals, pamphlets, brouchures, government publications, clippings and videos on topics of concern to women, such as: abortion, gender, race, class, lesbian and gay issues, violence, etc.

YORK INTERNATIONAL RESOURCE LIBRARY (WORK STUDY ABROAD RESOURCE LIBRARY)

Location: 108 Vanier College
Phone: 416-736-5177
Email: yiinfo@yorku.ca
Hours: Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

In the summer, on demand.
Who Can Use: Anyone
Who Can Borrow: Reference only, photocopying available
Who’s In Charge: Beth Alaska
Website: http://international.yorku.ca (note: no www in front)

The library has information on York University’s exchange universities as well as other international universities and also on language programmes. General information on international internship and volunteer opportunities, as well as, studying abroad is also available.