Borrow a Blanket, Find Your Favourite Spot: Picnic Blankets Now Available at Dal Libraries - The picnic blanket loan project encourages students, faculty, and staff to spend more time outdoors, enjoy the university’s green spaces, and connect with nature and one another blogs.dal.ca/libraries/20...

Attending Community Day at Dal's Agricultural Campus? Stop by the MacRae Library to check out our latest exhibit: The Journey of Our Wool! Since 2003, Campus Blankets have been produced using wool from sheep raised on the Ag Campus. Learn about the process and tradition: blogs.dal.ca/libraries/20...

Aspirin, a low-cost, widely available drug may be all that's needed to help prevent blood clots after hip and knee replacement surgery. A landmark Dal-led study could reshape post-surgical care showing a simpler approach may deliver comparable outcomes while lowering costs: https://ow.ly/bYya50Zq2rT

Who holds the copyright for material produced by GenAI systems anyway? Do LLMs produce infringing material? Join our Copyright Office for the latest updates on the relationship between Canadian copyright law and generative artificial intelligence, Monday July 20 @ 10am: dal.libcal.com/event/3979425

Copyright Quickchat: Generative AI Part II: Outputs

Who holds the copyright for material produced by GenAI systems anyway? Do LLMs produce infringing material? Join the Copyright Office for the latest updates on the relationship...

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Batteries lasting a lifetime is not a myth. Advances in battery science suggest that such a future could be nearer than we think. OpenThinker Martins Obialor explores how this is happening: blogs.dal.ca/openthink/ca...

Teaming up for Canadian and Arctic sovereignty. This week's announcement of TKMS as the preferred bidder for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project is a defining moment for Canada's navy, and for Halifax. Learn more about Dalhousie's contribution to this national effort:  https://ow.ly/t4tu50Zlz3j

Nunavut Day celebrates the creation of Nunavut in 1999, following decades of Inuit advocacy, and leadership. It is a day to honour Inuit culture, language, knowledge, and self-determination, while recognizing the deep relationship Inuit have with the land, water, and ice. #NunavutDay #Inuit

Is training generative AI systems on copyrighted work fair dealing? Is a licence required for text and data mining? Join our Copyright staff on Monday, July 13 @ 10 am for the latest updates on the relationship between Canadian copyright law and gen AI: dal.libcal.com/event/3920312

Copyright Quickchat: Generative AI Part I: Inputs

Is training generative AI systems on copyrighted work fair dealing? Is a licence required for text and data mining? Join the Copyright Office for the latest updates on the...

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#Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the #Internet (via @NYTimes) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b... #knowledge @wikimediafoundation.org @wikipedia.org #AI #GenAI

Take a virtual tour of our Studley campus: https://ow.ly/5inu50Z5JQp

Is training generative AI systems on copyrighted work fair dealing? Is a licence required for text and data mining? Join our Copyright staff on Monday, July 13 @ 10 am for the latest updates on the relationship between Canadian copyright law and gen AI: dal.libcal.com/event/3920312

Copyright Quickchat: Generative AI Part I: Inputs

Is training generative AI systems on copyrighted work fair dealing? Is a licence required for text and data mining? Join the Copyright Office for the latest updates on the...

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Media Literacy Tips. In this AI era, vigilance is key! 🍁 #MediaLiteracy #Libraries #Literacy #FactChecking 🍁

Please note: The Smudge for National Indigenous Peoples Day this morning at 10 am will now take place inside the Killam Library in the Ko'jua Okuom due to the rain. All are welcome! dal.libcal.com/event/4023563

Smudge Ceremony for National Indigenous Peoples Day

This event is rain or shine! If it's raining, we'll hold the smudge inside the library in the Ko'jua Okuom. Dal Libraries will host a morning smudge ceremony, led by Elder Ann...

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Please be advised that DalSpace will be offline from June 19 - July 7. Grad students who are required to submit their thesis during this time are asked to email for instructions on how to proceed. For all other submissions, please return on July 7 to upload your material blogs.dal.ca/libraries/20...

Bringing African Nova Scotian archives into focus: Dal invited members of the African Nova Scotian community to campus, including leaders from museums and cultural centres across NS, to discuss how to work together to preserve and share historical records and artifacts: www.dal.ca/news/2026/06...

Bringing African Nova Scotian archives into focus: Dal convenes community dialogue

Dalhousie invited members of the African Nova Scotian community to campus, including leaders from museums and cultural centres across the province, to discuss how to work together to preserve and shar...

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Congratulations to our chair Dr Erin Wunker on her new book! @dallibraries.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social

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📣 Fall 2026 📣 We’ve got a perfect pair of books lined up for fall: essays by Erin Wunker and poetry by Dani Spinosa! Read all about ‘em over on our website - you can preorder there now, or do so via your favourite independent bookstore.

Explore the Influence of Research: Try Overton! Dal Libraries is offering a limited-time trial of Overton, a powerful research tool that connects academic research with real-world policy. Explore this resource and see how it can support research, teaching, and learning: blogs.dal.ca/libraries/20...

We had a great time this week adding to @wikipedia.org to bolster content about Mi'kmaw artists, filmmakers, poets and more! Thanks to @wikimediacanada.bsky.social for their support and to CBC for visiting @dalhousie.bsky.social to chat about our edit-a-thon: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Dal takes on Wikipedia for National Indigenous Heritage Month

The university is helping improve information on Mi'kmaw history past and present by making changes to one of the world's most popular websites during a marathon event. The CBC's Josh Hoffman has the ...

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Tomorrow! Join us for all or part of the day. Learn to edit Wikipedia and help us improve content related to Mi'kmaw artists, authors, musicians, filmmakers, and more for National Indigenous History Month. dal.libcal.com/calendar/eve... @wikimediacanada.bsky.social @downiewenjack.bsky.social #NIHM

This Indigenous History Month, we invite you to continue learning and building stronger relationships grounded in respect, truth, and reciprocity. Here are just some of the ways you can participate:   Visit our downiewenjack.ca for additional learning resources   #IndigenousHistoryMonth

The first Class of 2026 graduates crossed the stage this morning. Read some of the incredible grad profiles and see more detail on the daily ceremonies each day until our last on June 9, 2026. https://ow.ly/t0cW50Z5HlX

An interview with @dal-english.bsky.social professor Dr Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social on his latest poetry collection! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social

Traces of the Self: An Interview with Eric Schmaltz - ASAP/Review

Eric Schmaltz’s latest poetry collection I CONFESS (2026) documents the poet’s experience of undergoing a lie detector test. At once intrigued and unnerved by this extractive method of truth productio...

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This June 3, in recognition of National Indigenous History Month, Dal Libraries teams up with the Department of Information Science and the Master of Information program to host a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon focused on L'nu (Mi'kmaw) arts and culture: www.dal.ca/news/2026/05... Link to register in story 👇

Helping shape public knowledge: Libraries to host Mi’kmaw‑focused Wikipedia Edit‑a‑thon

In recognition of National Indigenous History Month, Dalhousie Libraries hosts a collaborative event to strengthen accurate, inclusive online representation of Mi’kmaw arts and culture through communi...

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Community helps bring Anita Martinez's historic photo archive to life at Dal: A captioning event series hosted by Dal Archives kicked off this month, inviting participants to identify photographs documenting decades of queer and feminist life in Nova Scotia www.dal.ca/news/2026/05...

Community helps bring Anita Martinez's historic photo archive to life at Dal

A captioning event series hosted by Dal Archives kicked off this month, inviting participants to identify photographs documenting decades of queer and feminist life in Nova Scotia.

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We are hiring an intern! Our Health Sciences Library is seeking an enthusiastic and focused individual to join us as a Collections Diversification Intern. Applications will be accepted until May 25: young-canada-works.canada.ca/Opportunity/...

Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓 Most Helpful: Ask Jeeves Ask a question. Get an answer. Preferably in complete sentences. The internet had a butler once & he was awesome. See more of the Class of ’96 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/c... #Classof96

With 250,000 volunteers writing, editing, and fact-checking its 65 million articles in 300+ languages, all guided by standards on neutrality and reliability, Wikipedia has become the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Join us June 3 to learn and contribute: bit.ly/nihm-editath...

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for Indigenous History Month

Sponsored by the Master of Information Program & Department of Information Science at Dalhousie Dalhousie Libraries is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in the Ko’jua Okuom on...

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📢 The call for speakers for the Queering Wiki 2026 programme is now open. ⏱ Deadline - 30 June. All the information for speakers can be found on this page: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Queerin... We look forward to receiving your session for QW26! 🌈 @wikimediacanada.bsky.social #QueeringWiki #LGBT

Get ready! We're hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon on June 3 for Indigenous History Month! An edit-a-thon is an event where editors and users improve a specific topic or type of content. The focus of our edit-a-thon is Mi’kmaw art and culture. Save the date and stay tuned for more info 🗓️👩‍💻

#Indigenous #data #sovereignty is an important factor in achieving #self-determination by Indigenous peoples. In a new blog post @dalhousie.bsky.social graduate students Dolland, Lawson, & MacNeil-Singh discuss recent efforts to recognize Indigenous authority over their data eiui.ca/indigenous-d...