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The next event in the Library's Faculty Author Series will feature Dr. Rosana Barbosa, from the Department of History.   She’ll be here to talk about her new book, Brazil and Canada: Economic, Political and Migratory Ties, 1820s to 1970s . Please note that this talk has been re-scheduled for Wednesday, March 1 at 1 o’clock in Room LI135. All are welcome.

Like their counterparts elsewhere, Saint Mary’s students use information technology a lot.   All day, every day.   For working, communicating, catching up.   It’s what university students do. But what does that mean? What IT, exactly, are students at this school using?   Phones, tablets, laptops, desktops?   All of the above?   Some at the same time? To come up with some hard data, a survey was recently conducted on that very subject.   And the results of that survey will be revealed at a talk entitled:  Looking into student technology use at Saint Mary’s: results from the Educause survey of undergraduate students and information technology 2012 to 2016 Want to find out more about this increasingly important topic?   Join Perry Sisk, head of ITSS at Saint Mary’s and Peter Webster, our Systems Librarian, this Thursday, February 9 from 10:30-11:30 pm in Room LI135 in the Library. Everyone is welcome.

The Library is pleased to be hosting the Saint Mary’s Reading Series this year.   Organized by the Department of English, this series has been bringing in consistently outstanding writers from all literary genres for many years. We are particularly excited to announce that next week’s guest will be Andre Alexis, winner of numerous literary awards, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize for the provocative and widely-read, Fifteen Dogs .   In addition to taking questions from the audience, he will be reading from his latest work, The Hidden Keys .   So please join us for what should be an entertaining evening on Tuesday, February 7 at 7:00pm in Room LI135. Everyone is welcome.