Montreal Black history archive. About crowdsourcing. After Mirabel.

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• Last evening's special Concordia event presenting the rescued archives of the Montreal Negro Community Centre (NCC) was previewed on CBC Television's 6 pm news, starting at the 28:20 mark. The CBC Television 11pmnewscast closed with a short video montage from the event, at the Universal Negro Improvement Association Liberty Hall, on Notre Dame street west. The NCC archives were organized by Concordia students as part of a class research project for the Faculty of Arts and Science History 388 course, "Telling Stories". The research project was discussed also on CBC Radio's 'Homerun', yesterday afternoon (no link available), in an interview with Concordia Library special collections archivist Alexandra Mills, who collaborated on the project, and History 388 student Megan Ennenberg. Another student, Maureen Cant, is quoted and History 388 professor Steven High, who initiated the project, is referenced in a CBC.ca text version of the story, reprised by Yahoo! News. Finally, an earlier Montreal Gazette article on the NCC archiving project is picked up by the paper's e-edition.
• Several media outlets pick up news of research involving crowdsourcing and how it has changed the way business is conducted. Zeynep Arsel, associate professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business,investigated crowdsourcing's impact on business in a new article published by the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. The article was based on the 2012 master's thesis of Eric Martineau, supervised by Arsel, for the John Molson School of Business Master of Science Program: Science Daily, Phys.Org, Science Newsline, NewsCaf, AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) and University Press.
• Le Journal Le Nord writes about YMX: Migration, Land and Loss After Mirabel — a new multimedia exhibition about the defunct Mirabel Airport. Matt Soar, associate professor of Communication Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science and director of the Montreal Signs Project, is co-curator of the exhibition at Galerie Popop in Montreal, which runs until tomorrow.

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