Dalhousie University Libraries
This community consists of the Kellogg Health Sciences Library (Carleton Campus), the Killam Memorial Library (Studley Campus), the MacRae Library (Agricultural Campus), and the Sexton Design & Technology Library (Sexton Campus). The Law Library is administered separately under the Faculty of Law.
Sub-communities within this community
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Archives and Special Collections
University records, manuscripts, Dalhousie theses, music, rare books, early Canadiana, etc. -
Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (ACEWH)
Operating from 1996-2013, ACEWH was dedicated to conducting policy-oriented research aimed at improving the health status of Canadian women. Please visit www.dal.ca/acewh for more information. -
AV Bank
A service to preserve and distribute a large collection of archival audio and video works donated or licensed to Dalhousie University. -
Dalhousie University Libraries Administrative Documents
Documents relating to library administration or initiatives. -
Dunn Law Library
Contents of this collection will include reports published by the Law Commission of Canada and past exams from the School of Law (restricted access). -
Electronic Text Centre (ETC)
The Electronic Text Centre was a project of Academic Computing Services, the Killam Library, the School of Library and Information Studies, and the Department of English. -
History of Medicine
Digitized special collections in the health sciences -
Institute of Public Affairs
Books and serials published by the Institute of Public Affairs
Collections in this community
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LibQual+ Canada
Closed collection of raw data files
Recent Submissions
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Walking the Talk: Establishing Best Practices for Attributing and Licensing Employee-Created Works
(2024-06-20)This session explores the obstacles we encountered in our multi-year journey to develop practices that were acceptable to both content creators and content managers, while also respecting the boundaries of institutional ... -
Decoding the "Code of Best Practices in Fair Dealing for Open Educational Resources (OER)"
(2024-06-20)In 2022 the Canadian Association of Research Libraries struck a working group to create a Canadian adaptation of the US Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources. Intended to address the relative ... -
Secondary Publishing Rights
(2024-06-20)An examination of the need for secondary publishing rights in academic publishing, from a Canadian perspective. -
Annual Report 2022-2023
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The Pubic Domain Ball: A Play in One Act
(2024-06-20)An original creative work by Marty Grande-Sherbert, this one-act play uses characters in Canada's public domain to examine the consequences of public domain term extension. The playwright has dedicated this work to the ... -
In Memoriam: Dr. Sean Barrett
(Dalhousie University, 2024) -
Navigating Copyright for Crown-Published Works: A Code of Best Practices for Libraries
(2024-06-20)This session introduces a code of best practices focused on stewardship activities involving Crown Copyright. -
Not Netflix and Chill: Considering How Copyright Anxiety and Legal Chill Impacts the Higher Education Sector
(2024-06-20)This session presents the results of a research project that used an adapted Copyright Anxiety Scale and focus groups to learn more about the phenomena of copyright anxiety and chill. -
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Planning Ahead: How to Enact a Multi-Year Strategic Plan for Copyright Services from the Academic Library
(2024-06-20)Practical insights on crafting a multi-year strategic plan for copyright services at a college library. -
Externalities of TPMs Access to Digital Content, Repair & Interoperability
(2024-06-21)Anthony Rosborough (Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science at Dalhousie University) and Katherine Silins (Research Assistant and JD Candidate at the Schulich School of Law) will present on recent research into ... -
Risk and Reasonableness in Copyright Decision Making
(2024-06-20)Lack of clarity in the law and institutional risk tolerance can be at odds with professional values, which can confuse users and can undermine librarians providing guidance. This session will provide an overview of a ... -
The Fair Dealing Exception Explained
(2024-06-20)During this session, attendees will learn the importance of fair dealing, discovering how decisions from the courts can be used to help copyright users conduct six factor fair dealing assessments. -
Copyright Codes of Best Practices for Media Access, Reuse and Preservation
(2024-06-21)Educators, researchers, artist-scholars, and librarians face a pressing need to be able to continue to access, preserve, and reuse media content. Barriers to access, preservation, and reuse are increasing as copyright ... -
The Future of Controlled Digital Lending
(2024-06-20)Dave Hansen, Executive Director of Authors Alliance and co-author of the US position statement and legal white paper on controlled digital lending, will explain the most recent developments in the pivotal Hachette v. ... -
The Public Domain: Setting the Stage + The "Public Domain Ball: A Copyright Murder Mystery"
(2024-06-21)Lise Brin will start off this session with a short review of the history and role of the public domain. Then Marty will give some background as to the play's origins and aims. -
Building Canadian Digital Libraries
(2024-06-21)A look at what the Internet Archive hopes to achieve in Canada. -
Assessing the use of CanLit in teaching at Simon Fraser University
(2024-06-21)Concerns have been raised by Canadian authors, publishers, and their collective societies regarding the use of their works in Canadian post-secondaries. In light of these concerns, we have collected and analyzed data on ... -
Agenda: 13 June 2024
(2024-06-13) -
Minutes: 24 May 2024
(2024-05-24)