A Pickup Anywhere service is now available in Omni. With this new service, you’ll be able to choose any one of the 16 Omni partner institutions across Ontario to pick up books that you request. Doing a co-op in London for the summer and need a book for your online course? Request it and choose Western’s Weldon […]
At a time when COVID-19 continues to impact various communities, accurate and bias-free health and anti-racism messages on the web have also become more critical than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data also show that the virus’-impact has been highly racialized. On May 3-4, 2022, YorkU Libraries will host a virtual symposium on Navigating Information […]
On May 2, the default search scope in Omni will change from “York Libraries” to “York + Omni Libraries”.
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The York University Libraries’ War in Ukraine Subject Research Guide, prepared by Senior Librarian Mary Kandiuk, in the Department of Content Development & Analysis, serves as a starting point to locate background information about Ukraine, the events leading up to the Russian invasion of […]
The Media Creation Lab at YorkU Offers Users Access to Sound Booth Whether you’re a student looking to submit your assignment in a more creative way by creating a podcast or a faculty member trying to create new ways to learn, the Bear Cave silent booth in the new Media Creation Lab (MCL) at Scott […]
Lab in Scott Library provides students and faculty with access to new teaching and hands-on learning opportunities across disciplines.
Edit-a-thon event aims to improve digital coverage of Black histories and experiences on Wikipedia and Wikidata While researching for a display case for Caribana’s fiftieth anniversary at York University Libraries (YUL) almost five years ago, Katrina Cohen-Palacios, an archivist at YUL’s Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at Scott Library, found that articles from major […]
As of August 3, 2021, YorkU students, faculty, and staff have access to almost 23.5 million print resources through the Omni search system. Omni is a collaborative effort between 16 partner university libraries in Ontario. What does this mean for students, faculty & staff at York? Just log in to your library account and perform a search in Omni using the filter ‘York Libraries + Omni Libraries’. Omni will search the print holdings of all 16 partner libraries […]
Archivist Katrina Cohen-Palacios of the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections at York University has been awarded the 2021 Emerging Leader Award by the Archives Association of Ontario (AAO). The award was presented to Cohen-Palacios at the AAO’s annual general meeting, which took place virtually on May 14. Cohen-Palacios joined York University’s Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collection in 2017 […]
Jack Leong, York University’s associate dean of libraries, research and open scholarship, was elected vice-president of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association/Association Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (CCLA – ACLC) during its 2021 annual conference. Leong will serve in this role from 2021-23. The CCLA – ACLC is a leading academic organization in the studies of comparative […]
