The Concordia library is open to users as of today. For more information, please see https://library.concordia.ca/covid19/index.php.
Don’t forget to wear your masks!
All the Library’s locations are temporarily closed until at least May 1. While our physical locations are closed, we are committed to supporting you throughout this period in completing your studies, teaching, and research.
We will continue to monitor the suggestions emails, so please keep writing!
For information on which Library services are available during this period, please visit https://library.concordia.ca/covid19/.
We are looking for participants for a User Navigation Project at Concordia University Library. We are asking for a commitment of 90 to 120 minutes. Participants will be compensated with a $40 gift card of their choice to either Amazon, Pharmaprix, Metro grocery store or Concordia Bookstore.
Participants will be given a task and asked to find their way around the library to accomplish that task. After completion, there will be an interview to discuss the participants’ navigation of the library. Due to the scope of the project, not all people who apply can be selected for participation.
For more information about the project see: https://library.concordia.ca/about/improvement/?guid=postcard
Questions about the project can be sent to: lib-suggestions@concordia.ca
Since the library opened its spaces in August, a few users have expressed concerns over other users not following the mask requirements adequately.
Concordia has taken extensive safety measures to ensure that public health guidelines are followed on campus spaces, in order to protect the health, safety, and physical well-being of the Concordia community, and to keep transmissions at a minimum during in-person activities.
It is of the utmost importance that students wear their procedural masks at all times when in the Library. To ensure that students comply with the mask directive, security has been stepped up at both libraries and there is a dedicated agent patrolling the library from 08:00 to 24:00, 7 days a week to ensure that public health measures are being respected.
Should you see a student violating the masking guidelines and feel unsafe, please notify staff at a service point or campus security, report the mask violation, and a security agent will arrive to ensure that health guidelines are followed. A quick and convenient way to do this is through Concordia’s new Rave Guardian app – once you have downloaded the app on your phone, you can send a text to security to inform them of the incident. They will be able to access your location through your phone’s GPS and rectify the situation in a firm and timely manner.
Stay safe everyone!
We’ve heard from users that non-graduate students sometimes use the graduate study space on the 5th floor in the Webster Library (LB-561, LB-562, LB-564 and LB-545). These rooms are reserved for and should only be used by graduate students.
Security agents will be checking for IDs in this area periodically, to ensure that it is used by the intended students.
We are interested in learning more about how users locate the library’s services and navigate the physical spaces. Once we know this, we can come up with solutions regarding wayfinding in the newly renovated Webster Library and in the planning of any Vanier improvements.
Before we can start improving the wayfinding in the library, we first need to know, what are the problems? What resources or services do you find hard to find? What things frustrate you as you move about the library?
We have set up blue mailboxes around the library and are asking users to send us a postcard about things they find frustrating or hard to find as they travel around the library. The mailboxes stations will be in place for the month of October 2019.
Take a seat and relax! As of today and until Thursday of next week (April 9-11, 1-5 p.m.), free professional 10-minute chair massages are being provided for all Concordia students on a first-come, first-serve basis at the Webster and Vanier libraries. This calming service is made possible by the Library Services Fund.
If you would like to make any suggestions or comments, please continue to do so.
I will read them upon my return.
If you need any immediate assistance, please do not hesitate to use one of our “Ask a Librarian” services!
We have received a few comments suggesting that we post a link to “CitationGenerator” on the library’s “how to cite” page.
CitationGenerator is a cloud-based, add-free online citation tool that provides APA, MLA and Chicago citation formats.
We have added it to the website, under Help & How To –> Citing –> Online citation Tool.
Happy citing!
I will be away from the Suggestion Box until Monday, August 20.
If you would like to make any suggestions or comments, please continue to do so.
I will read them upon my return.
If you need any immediate assistance, please do not hesitate to use one of our “Ask a Librarian” services!
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