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

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

#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

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

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...

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

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/...

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

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 👇

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...

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...

📢 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...

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/...

In Canada, May is #AsianHeritageMonth. Join us in celebrating Asian communities across Canada! Discover interesting events scheduled for the coming weeks: www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

We invite you to view A Rising Tide, Dalhousie University’s strategic framework, with a focus on the distinctive and excellent ways we serve our communities, drawing our attention to the difference we make in the world: https://ow.ly/jft450YUGM5

Dal Libraries Research Camp will take you through all the elements of research from basic to advanced. This free program is offered through online modules you can do at your own pace on Brightspace, with options for in-person sessions in May & June. Enroll anytime: dal.ca.libguides.com/ResearchCamp

REMINDER: Survey closes tomorrow (May 1) Work/volunteer in literacy in Nova Scotia (schools, libraries, community, policy)? Your input matters. Help shape a provincial picture of literacy: surveys.dal.ca/opinio/s?s=8... Please share widely. #literacy #dalhousie #research #yorkville #LNS

Dal Libraries Research Camp will take you through all the elements of research from basic to advanced. This free program is offered through online modules you can do at your own pace on Brightspace, with options for in-person sessions in May & June. Enroll anytime: dal.ca.libguides.com/ResearchCamp

The African Nova Scotian Archival Gathering brings together community members with personal collections of family and cultural artifacts, alongside professionals working in institutional archives and cultural spaces that hold African Nova Scotian materials. Register: https://ow.ly/TYv950YNCl9

🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️

In the news: When exam season peaks, the library becomes more than a study space: www.dal.ca/news/2026/04...

REMINDER: Literacy work happens in libraries, classrooms, daycares, non-profits. If you have paid or unpaid literacy-related experience in Nova Scotia, we want to hear from you by May 1st. 25 questions | 15–20 minutes | Anonymous surveys.dal.ca/opinio/s?s=8... Please share widely.

Dal Libraries’ Research Camp self-registration now open! Research Camp is a comprehensive program to take you through the research process, from literature searching and writing to publication. Open to any student, faculty, or staff blogs.dal.ca/libraries/20...

Save the date and register! Join us May 7 for the African Nova Scotian Archival Gathering, hosted in partnership with Dalhousie’s African Nova Scotian Strategy, which focuses on understanding and strengthening African Nova Scotian archives across the province: events.dal.ca/event/5759-a...

It's exam season! Our libraries are open longer to serve you better. Check our website for extended exam hours for your favourite study spot. You've got this 📝💫 bit.ly/dal-lib-hours

It's exam season! Our libraries are open longer to serve you better. Check our website for extended exam hours for your favourite study spot. You've got this 📝💫 bit.ly/dal-lib-hours

AI-generated content is everywhere these days, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction. The 10th annual International Fact-Checking Day provides a good opportunity to look at these evolving challenges.

Save the date and register! Join us May 7 for the African Nova Scotian Archival Gathering, hosted in partnership with Dalhousie’s African Nova Scotian Strategy, which focuses on understanding and strengthening African Nova Scotian archives across the province: events.dal.ca/event/5759-a...

Today is #NationalIndigenousLanguagesDay! Languages carry stories, knowledge, and identity, and they deserve to be preserved, shared, and celebrated. On this day, and every day, we honour the cultural importance and revitalization of Indigenous languages.

Today! Our final speaker series event of the year, co-hosted with the Black and African Diaspora Studies program. All are welcome! @dalhistory.bsky.social @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social

Tonight! Join us for this free virtual event!

Our speaker series this Friday, co-hosted with Black & African Diaspora Studies: "Anthologizing Afrofuturism: A Panel Discussion & Launch of The @broadviewpress.bsky.social Anthology of Science Fiction," with Profs. Asha Jeffers, Isaac Saney & Jason Haslam. All are welcome! @dallibraries.bsky.social

I Lost My Talk by Rita Joe, tells the Mi'kmaw Elder's childhood story of losing her language while a resident of the residential school in Nova Scotia. Joe's words explore and celebrate the survival of Mi'kmaw culture and language despite its attempted eradication. #EPUB nnels.ca/items/i-lost...

Join us as MacRae Library archival intern Steve Brakel presents on digitizing the Edith Zillig Sheep & Wool Collection. Friday, March 27 at 11 am in the MacRae Library, Program Room 219 Agricultural Campus, Truro. Join us in person or online: dal.libcal.com/calendar/eve...

Udderly inspired: Annual Fine Arts and Craft Exhibit highlights creativity on Agricultural Campus www.dal.ca/news/2026/03...