Resources and Services

The Reader’s Digest Resource Centre maintains resources particular to the program including:

Lending Policy All materials must remain in the Resource Centre at all times.

Special Collections

Some of the special collections include:

Dunton Memorial Communication Research Collections (History of the CBC from 1922-2004 including clippings, biographies, subjects and programs)
The McBride Commission Papers of International Communication (A Contribution to the Debate on the New Information and Communication Order – “Collection Zimmerman” 1992)
Canadian Communication Association Archive
Hurley Burley Collection (“Hurley Burley, A time at the Globe” – drafts, edited and final manuscript of Richard Doyle’s account of his career as editor of the Globe and Mail)
The Valour and the Horror (CBC Television Documentary series 1992-1993, briefs to the Senate Committee, book excerpts, articles correspondence and clippings)

These archives have been highly valued for faculty and graduate student research.

The Resource Centre provides students of the School of Journalism and Communication with:

A relaxed, collegial study space
Privacy cubicles
Wireless Internet access
Three conference rooms equipped with monitors and white boards to conduct focus groups, interviews, meet with group project members, instructors or teaching assistants and to organize study groups and/or School Society meetings.
Forum for showcasing student work (class projects, published articles) and short term exhibits.
Photocopiers
Course Reserves