Interested in finding out how you can team up with other students to design, build and operate a solar-powered home?

Want to contribute your skills in broadcasting, marketing, accounting, information design and computer information systems?

Attend an information session about the Solar Decatholon 2013 to find out more about this award-winning international academic contest.

Date & time: Thurs March 7 noon

Location: Bissett School of Business, 2nd floor atrium

See you there

More information is also available at solardecathlon.ca, Twitter @TeamAlbertaSD or on Team Alberta’s Facebook page.

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Are you working on an interesting project, on your own or as a group?  Would you consider sharing your research with the MRU community?

Student Research Day, taking place Wed March 20 on Main Street this year, is a great opportunity to do just that.  You can either do a research poster or a 10 minute presentation, oral or multimedia.  Register by Fri, March 15 to hold your spot.  The earlier you register though, the longer the period you will have access to support seminars and on-line help sessions while completing your projects.

Your posters can be printed for free!

Still not sure?  Visit the Student Research Day Website for more information and check out what other students have done in previous years.  The application form is also there.

The Department of Canadian Heritage invites young people to take on the new Canada Day Challenge by creatively expressing what Canada means to them.

Based on this year’s theme Canada: Strong and Free, they can enter a submission in one, two, or all three of the following categories:

1. original poster design
2. digital photography
3. creative writing

They can win great prizes like a trip to Ottawa to take part in the 2013 Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill, an iPad mini and much more.  Submission deadline is March 22, 2013.

For more information including contest rules, entry forms and learning resources, please visit www.challenge.pch.gc.ca.

Visit your library account here

When you’re logged into your account you can see what items you have signed out.  You can renew your books as long as you don’t have more than $15 in fines, you haven’t already renewed twice and there is no hold on the book.  Your account will also tell you if you have any fines/fees and you can check to make sure that we have your correct address information on file.

If you have any questions about logging into your account or how to use it please visit the Circulation or Information desks.

Mount Royal University Library currently subscribes to both these ACM products via the CRKN license. In the coming months, we will be exploring our options regarding both of these subscriptions, for 2014. We may choose to contract directly with ACS, or to implement alternate arrangements and will be considering cost, access, and demand with in these options. We will be working with CRKN and consulting with our community during this process.

The decision to terminate the national agreement was taken by the CRKN Board of Directors after the organization’s negotiating team was unable to reach a renewal agreement with ACS, owing to fundamental issues with the new pricing model adopted by ACS for its international (non-US) library and consortia customers.

The full press release is available here:
http://www.crkn.ca/communications/crkn-to-terminate-national-agreement-with-the-acs

For more information, you may contact Meagan Bowler, Coordinator, Collection Development, at mbowler@mtroyal.ca.

Join the cause by donating

• till Nov 14
• at the Library Admin office (G201)
• or the Library Circulation Desk (G100)

Shop at the Sale – 9 am to 4 pm in front of the Library

• new and used books, CDs, DVDs, videos, albums and more
• fiction and nonfiction
• recently published textbooks
• $1/item

All proceeds to the United Way.