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Students and Faculty, please take note!  The 125 records in the catalogue for the NeurosciencenetBASE e-book collection are currently not linking to full-text content due to a recent upgrade to the vendor's platform.  Content can still be accessed via the link to the collection on the alphabetic database list displayed when "Find Articles"  is selected from under the Library tab on the Student Portal or from the link on the Psychology subject page.

SCULPTURES BY CESAR ALVAREZ

From March 2-April 26, the MacEwan Library at City Centre Campus is thrilled to have an exhibition by Cesar Alvarez.

A year 2001 alumni of the recently changed Grant MacEwan University, and a recent graduate of the University of Alberta’s acclaimed sculpture MFA program, Alvarez has caught the eye of critics both at home and abroad with his recent work.  Veteran New York art critic Piri Halasz called “Queen’s Beddings”, one of Alvarez latest works, the “most exciting new sculpture” she has seen on her recent Edmonton survey:

 “Made of stained, waxed, & exquisitely pale wood, its surface was so sensuous that it made me want to caress it.  The shape was also exciting: something of a table with what seemed a mostly flat top, but with all manner of starling new things going bellow….  Born in Chile, he migrated to Canada at the age of 24, taught himself carpentry and passed the provincial licensing exams to become a journeyman carpenter and cabinet maker.  Later, he turned to art, and enrolled in [Professor Peter] Hide’s program at the University of Alberta, but “Queen’s Beddings” clearly demonstrate the importance of his earlier experience in wood-working.  Alvarez, too is one of [the Edmonton Contemporary Artist Society’s] newer members, and the work he is showing… has no equal in New York. 

                 -Piri Halasz, From the Mayor’s doorstep, Oct.  2009

A sample of one of his works (Queen's Beddings)

If the different documentation styles have you stumped, stymied and struggling, help is here!  Staff from Writing and Learning Services will provide citation (APA, MLA, Chicago) assistance in the City Centre Campus Library - drop-in basis, no appointment necessary!

Beginning March 1st, the hours will be:

Wednesdays and Thursdays: 1pm-4pm ; Fridays: 9am - noon

Where: Room 7-202A

Plans are underway for MacEwan to become a full member of NEOS, a consortium of 18 academic, government and health libraries in north central Alberta. Full membership will provide seamless access to about 8 million collection items listed in the catalogue.  What does this mean for you? Some highlights

• No need to search two library catalogues (material belonging to all NEOS libraries will be in one catalogue)
• Ability to request books and have them delivered to any MacEwan Library

The official go-live date has been scheduled for July, 2011.