Grad Students Benefit from Library Facelift
MacOdrum Library’s facelift is almost complete. Just a few finishing touches.
“We are delighted that by November, we will be opening up our fifth floor, once again, to grad students,” says Chief Librarian Margaret Haines. “In this space, graduate students can now work in a much expanded quiet area, have lockers to store their library materials, and work in 15 new multiple occupancy study rooms reserved for graduate students only or at larger carrels specially designed to accommodate their research in the open part of the new fifth floor. We are working with GSA to install a large bulletin board near the study rooms for posting information relevant to graduate study at Carleton. Also on the 5th floor, graduate students will be able to enjoy the expanded Archives and Research Collections department which will include the Jacob Siskind Music Resource Centre. ”
There are a number of other services specifically for Graduate Students.
During the Fall and Winter semesters, the Library offers a series of workshops on subjects such as Citation Management, training on NVivo software (that helps with qualitative data analysis), and new this year – Data Management for Grad Research and Visualizing Your Research Data Using Microsoft Excel. To review dates, times and additional information, please visit the Research & Writing Workshops on Graduate Studies’s Grad Navigate professional training page.
You can contact a subject specialist on this list to help you research specific research information. The Library offers a list of subject guides at this site.
You can keep books that you have borrowed for 120 days with one renewal. Books may need to be recalled in 28 days if there is a request.
Wireless access is available throughout the entire library.
Graduate students may also wish to use the facilities on the new 4th floor which include a gaming laboratory, a multi-media design laboratory, a learning laboratory and other equipment and technology in the Discovery Centre. They can also book rooms for group projects on the 2nd, 4th and 5th floors and some may wish to use the six new Bloomberg business terminals being installed on the 2nd floor or the GIS/Data lab on the 1st floor in the MADGIC area.
The Library is also offering you a sneak peak of Summon, a tool that makes it possible to search across many resource collections simultaneously: the catalogue (books, ebooks, journal titles, games, music, videos, government information, maps, data, and more), most of the databases that the library subscribes to and CURVE, our institutional repository. You can check out Summon on the MacOdrum Library website. Details about the official launch will be provided when they are available. Please don’t hesitate to contact Pat Moore at ext. 2745 if you have any questions about this new tool.
The Library is a sponsor of the Graduate Student Open Access Award, co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Association and the Office of the Vice President (Research & International), to support Carleton University graduate students in publishing research in open access journals. Up to five monetary awards of $1000 will be distributed each year.
“Now that the construction is over, we are reinstating our Quiet Please Service for students,” says Haines. “If you are being prevented from studying effectively anywhere in the Library, you can just text or email quiet@library.carleton.ca, and someone will respond right away.”
Adds Haines: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank all students for putting up with the noisy renovations over the past year. I know this made things uncomfortable but I think you will find the new and improved space and facilities worth it.”