The SLA's Annual Valentine's Day Bake Sale


Posted by Mike G., February 8th, 2013

The SLA will be having its annual Valentine's Day bake sale on Thursday from 9:30AM-4:00PM. If you're willing to help out with the baking, send Nicole an email at n.bloudoff@dal.ca.

New Tour: Pier 21 Canadian Museum of Immigration


Posted by Mike G., February 1st, 2013

On Friday, February 8th we will be going on a tour of the Pier 21 Canadian Museum of Immigration. We will be meeting on the ground floor of the Rowe Atrium at 12:15PM. If you would rather meet us at Pier 21, the tour itself starts at 1:00PM. The tour will last until approximately 2PM.

If you're interested in going on the tour there will be a sign up sheet posted on the grey cupboards in the Common Room.

Tour: Advisory Council on the Status of Women


Posted by Mike G., November 19th, 2012

Next Friday, November 30th we will be going on a tour of the special library for The Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women. This will be a great tour for anyone interested in women's studies. Here's a description of the library from the head librarian herself:

"The Library collects information resources to support the Advisory Council's mandate. Our collection covers many issues such as violence, law, health, employment, and poverty. We have materials relating to specialized populations of women such as young women, black, native, immigrant and women with disabilities."

SLA Tour and Pub Club


Posted by Mike G., November 19th, 2012

The first SLA tour this year will be happening this coming Friday, November 2nd at at 12:30PM. We'll be going on a tour of the IWK Health Sciences Library and the IWK Family Resource Library. That's two tours in one!

We'll be meeting in front of the Rowe building at 12:30PM and walking to the IWK from there. Afterwards, around 2PM, we'll head over to the Fickle Frog to start Pub Club early.

Map of A Few Special Libraries in Halifax


Posted by Mike G., September 13th, 2012

Welcome back to school everybody! Hopefully this year is as remarkably fantastic as the last. If you're new to the Halifax area and interested in special libraries, check out this map we put together, listing the locations of some of the special libraries in Nova Scotia.

Information Without Borders Conference 2012


Posted by Mike G., February 9th, 2012

The Dalhousie SLA student group would like to thank the IWB committee for putting on another successful, informative conference. It was a great day filled with many interesting speakers. It was clear that an enormous amount of work went into planning this conference, so congratulations on a job well done.

SLA Student Chapter Mentioned in the New Inform Magazine


Posted by Mike G., January 31st, 2012

If you missed it you can check it out here. (It's on page 19.)

Bake Sale

Posted by Mike G., December 2nd, 2011

The combined SLA/IWB bake sale will take place Monday December 5th in the Rowe Atrium, running from 10am-4pm.

A New Constitution

Posted by Mike G., October 18th, 2011

Thanks to your support we now have a new, updated constitution. If you missed the meeting, you can have a look at it here.