The e-resource Career Cruising is good for profiling careers. What might not be so obvious is that it's also good for finding out where, in pursuit of a career, you can go to school; and what related, local associations there might be. Schools Say you want to know where you might go to […]
Parfois, à peine ma bougie éteinte, mes yeux se fermaient si vite que je n’avais pas le temps de me dire: «Je m’endors.» Et, une demi-heure après, la pensée qu’il était temps de chercher le sommeil m’éveillait; je voulais poser le volume que je croyais avoir encore dans les mains et souffler ma lumière… These […]
The attached Guide for Foreign-Trained Pharmacists in Ontario lists print and electronic resources for foreign-trained pharmacists who wish to be licensed to practice, and to practice, in Ontario. The resources range from pharmacy textbooks and study guides to information on licensing and employment (job searching, job listings). The guide (9 p.) is divided into two […]
There's an interesting article in the 10th anniversary issue of Spacing: "Going green: 10 important policies that are making Toronto a more sustainable city" by Dale Duncan and Todd Irvine (winter 2013/2014, pp. 34-36). The policies are policies (and initiatives) "that have made Toronto greener over the past ten years" (p. 34). One of them […]
I surprised a user once by how fast I found something in the index of an encyclopedia, then found it in the encyclopedia. I wasn't especially fast. I thought he must be surprised at how I went from the index to the volume the topic was in. But the surprise he expressed was at how […]
FBI Records: the Vault is one of the free reference websites on the 2012 list "Best free reference websites" compiled by a RUSA committee and published in the fall 2012 issue of Reference & User Services Quarterly . The site serves, according to the notes on its entry in the list, "as an online 'vault' to […]
Bell, the inventor, or one of the inventors, of the telephone, also taught the deaf. It was thought that they could be taught to talk and so kept from having to use sign language. Some thought they could be taught to talk only if kept from using it and "in several schools children were mistreated, […]
The Science and Technology Department of North York Central Library compiles a monthly calendar of free science and applied-science events in Toronto: that is, of events which fall into the subjects in the department's collections. Here is the September calendar. Applied science (the "technology" of the department's name) includes health, gardening, pets and food. So […]
This index doesn't index only Canadian periodicals and, anyway, Canadian periodicals don't include only Canadian material. So finding articles on Canadian topics in it isn't as straightforward as you might think. But there is, with its curves, a way. Say the topic you want current information on is health care. To start, do a subject […]
I want demographics. I want numbers about people. I'm in grade 12 (it's a Jirō Taniguchi comic set in Ontario) and my homework for the "Health Care and Society" part of my course is to "identify current health care issues from recent media coverage and describe their societal implications" (The Ontario Curriculum, grades 11 and […]