This year Factiva continued to deliver information solutions that help organizations compete more effectively and make better decisions faster. Here are some notable highlights: Acquisitions 2B Group Adds Critical Elements for Effective Reputation Management In February, Factiva acquired London-based 2B Group as part of its strategy to offer media monitoring and reputation management solutions for [...]

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Canada’s Premier Periodical and Current Events Database Finding the right mix of Canadian periodical content can be difficult for information professionals seeking in-depth Canadian information. Micromedia ProQuest’s Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) is Canada’s definitive source for online periodical content in Canada. It delivers the best collection of bibliographic and full text reference and [...]

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www.oclc.org/ca/en Do you have remote users? Do your users think of you as remote librarians? If so, you may want to consider implementing a virtual reference service such as QuestionPoint. QuestionPoint can help you assist your users at their point of need regardless of where your users are or where your library is. It might [...]

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Fall is here and the new “SLA season” is about to begin. This is the time of year of putting away the flip-flops and sunscreen, bringing out the heavy sweaters and enjoying comfort foods like soups and stews. It is also a new beginning of sorts as the kids go back to school and the [...]

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A Fond Farewell. This is our final newsletter as the editors of the Courier. It is rather a bitter sweet finale as it was great fun to produce the quarterly editions over the last two years, but it also feels great to move on to other projects. Your new editors going forward will be Heather [...]

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Welcome to the Fall issue of the Courier – our first as editors. Now that the excitement of SLA 2005 has passed and summer is officially over, the realities of work (and deadlines) are intruding once again as everyone gets back to business. Including your Toronto Chapter. Like a sack full of Halloween candy, this [...]

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It’s hard to believe that the summer has wound up and we are already into fall. While most of us took time off to enjoy the warm weather, SLA was hard at work. I’ve summarized a few of the noteworthy items below. Changes to SLA’s Membership Department Recently SLA’s Membership Department has introduced improvements to [...]

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Downtown Lunches The Toronto Solo Librarians group is hoping to have several meetings in October. The Downtown lunch group generally meets once a month on Mondays and this year, thanks to Kolette Taber of The Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA), we will be meeting at 1 Queen Street East, Suite 1700, Boardroom B. [...]

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Stephanie Hilson has accepted a new postion at MacMaster University as a prospect researcher in the University Advancement department. Rani Pooran, a recent FIS grad, will be moving to London, England to work for PwC as an Assistant Consultant in the Tax Knowledge Management Department. Marjan Farahbaksh, a recent FIS grad, has accepted a position [...]

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Did you know that there is such a thing as beer ice cream?? This beer novice certainly didn’t, but that’s just one item on the menu at Beerbistro, a unique restaurant dedicated to beer and beer cuisine. On September 22, the Toronto Chapter held it’s first event of the fall season at the Beerbistro on [...]

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