Cross-posted from the Library’s main news feed:

June 19 – 22: Entrance to McLennan Library Building temporarily closed for repairs

 

The main entrance to the Humanities & Social Sciences Library (i.e. the McLennan Library Building doors off of the terrace) will be closed from Monday, June 19 through Thursday, June 22 inclusively in order to repair the grills and flooring at the front entrance. During this time period, temporary access to the Humanities & Social Sciences Library will be provided through the Redpath Library Building doors. The McLennan doors and the interior stairwell from University Services on the street level will be cordoned off and signage will be used to direct user to the Redpath doors.

 

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and cooperation.

Friday, June 16: Update on financial workstations at HSSL

Due to the installation of new desks on the 2nd floor of McLennan, the financial workstations in this area will be temporarily unavailable for most of June 13-15.

The following applications with be unavailable during this time: Bloomberg, Datastream, Morningstar, and SDC Platinum.

We apologize for any inconvenience this work may cause.

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I should also mention that later this summer we will be moving these workstations to a new location, a room on the 3rd floor of McLennan!

This room will provide a dedicated space for people working on financial data assignments, and will allow small groups to work together without disrupting the students studying nearby.

The exact date of this move has not yet been determined, but we are hoping to limit the downtime to a single day. I’ll post an update here once we know the date.

If you have any questions or concerns about this new space, please let me know (edward.bilodeau@mcgill.ca).

Hours

Data Lab Workstations: Open when the Humanities and Social Sciences Library is open.

In-person Consultation: Monday-Thursday 10am-12pm, or by appointment.

Looking for a physical space on the McGill campus that can help you find and use data for your research? Need help finding data on a particular topic? Look no further than the McGill Library Data Lab that is located on the 2^nd floor of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library (Room, M2-37A).

Consult with a data librarian to help you:

• Discover and cite relevant datasets
• Load and manipulate data in statistical software packages
• Understand metadata documentation

Open when the Humanities and Social Sciences Library is open, this research space offers 14 workstations with the latest versions of SPSS, SAS, Stata, NVivo, R, ArcGIS and more! Available on a first-come-first serve basis.

We have dedicated consultation services Monday through Thursday 10am-12pm to further support your data needs.

While we do not provide statistical consulting services, we are here to help you discover, access and use data to get it into the right shape and format for you to run a smooth analysis.

To make an appointment with a data librarian outside our consultation hours, please email data.library@mcgill.ca to schedule a meeting.

Happy Data-ing!