Cupid Strikes Again: Love Data Week

In the darkness and cold of winter, the only thing we have is each other (and SOUP). While us mortals scuffle through the snow and start the winter semester, a little flying baby has other plans. From the top of the Arts Building a heart-shaped arrow is drawn with chubby little fingers… cupid has struck the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Suddenly we are pawning over statistics, excel, charts, and more. From this adoration, Love Data Week was born. 

Love Data Week is back for 2022! 

This year, there is a full week of events catered to all. Whether or not you have been bitten by the love(data) bug, there are introductory workshops, intermediate tutorials, and an exciting panel. Data is for everyone. All workshops are remote, but still a ton of fun.

You can register for individual workshops, or as many of the 11 offered that you want to come to.

A little cupid told us that an exciting event this year is the The Pandora Papers for Data Lovers. This is a panel from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists about the process of working with these papers that expose the shadow financial system that benefits the world’s most rich and powerful. You can register here to attend on February 16th, at 12PM EST.

Wonderful librarians and staff have super worked hard to bring #LoveDataWeek2022 so come, bring friends, and show love <3

Join us for a romantic week with data and maybe even fall in love…

Canada Reads 2022 at McGill

Canada Reads has just announced their 2022 longlist of titles for the Battle of the Books competition. From this list five books will be chosen by five different celebrities who each champion a book. Panelists vote out a book each day until only one winner remains.

The Humanities and Social Sciences Library has many of the books included on this year’s longlist. Click the links on each book for more information on how to borrow.

Driver by Marcello Di Cintio

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

Book of Wings by Tawhida Tanya Evanson

Satellite Love by Genki Ferguson *

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez

All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac *

Dominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie Kellough *

Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Life in the City of Dirty Water by Clayton Thomas-Müller *

From My Mother’s Back by Njoki Wane

We Two Alone by Jack Wang *

The Spoon Stealer by Lesley Crewe **

* Available through the BAnQ or les Bibliothèques Montéal

** This book can be requested via InterLibrary Loan


Follow CBC Reads

The five final books and the celebrity champions will be revealed on January 26th, 2022 and the debates are set to take place from March 28th – 31st, 2022. You can watch or listen on CBC Radio OneCBC TVCBC Gem and on CBC Books

Get Home Safe

Finals are hard, and after a long day at the library the last thing you want to do is walk home alone. Stay safe and warm with these services that help you get home. No matter what the reason, SSMU Walksafe and Drivesafe are here for you.

Credits//: Schreder

WalkSafe

Operating every day from 9pm-12am, if you have a late night at the library you have a safe companion home. Just call 514-398-2498.

For more information follow them on facebook here: @SSMUWalksafe or check out their website here: https://walksafe.ssmu.ca/

DriveSafe

Operating Monday to Friday 10PM-2AM, DriveSafe offers the option for those who live a little farther from campus.

They are only picking up passengers from campus, and due to limited resources the exam period boundaries are restricted to:

East-West: Autoroute 15 to Papineau

North-South: Rue Jean-Talon to Verdun

If passengers would like to be dropped off outside of this designated area, they will drop them at a bus stop, metro, or train station near the edge of the boundary.

There is one car each night! Call (514)398-8040

Also some key information:

  • If its an emergency, don’t wait for DriveSafe, call 911!
  • Opened alcohol is not permitted at anytime in a DriveSafe van.
  • Volunteers have total and absolute discretion as to who to allow into their van and where to go.
  • It is service aimed at bringing students home safely, not a taxi service for transporting you from place to place!

For more information, @McGillSSMUDriveSafe

For their website: https://drivesafe.ssmu.ca/

A HUGE thank you to all the volunteers who give their time to make their peers safer and happier.

Stay safe and take care of yourselves during the busy season. You are almost done!!

If you have any questions email hssl.library@mcgill.ca or directly contact WalkSafe and DriveSafe.