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Dec
10
December – Lam Library’s “Jump-Start Your Research Guide” Wins an Award
Posted by: LamLibrarian | December 10, 2009 | Comments Off
The David Lam Librarians have been recognized by their colleagues in other academic libraries in BC for their Jump-Start Your Research Guide. The guide, created to assist students with the critical thinking process necessary for approaching secondary market research, has won a prize in the ALPS LINK Gold Medal Contest. The contest invites academic librarians to submit learning objects which can be used by librarians at other universities and colleges in BC. ALPS (Academic Librarians in Public Service) is part of the BC Library Association.
Developed this summer after a discussion about how best to help students apply critical thinking skills to secondary research, the guide has been handed out to undergraduates and graduates in library presentations and at our reference desk. It can save students time by helping them create an effective research strategy and also helps the librarians to understand their research topics more clearly.
There are two versions of the tool; one for undergraduate students and one for graduate students. Click here to access the guides on David Lam Library website.
Dec
10
December – Showcasing Sauder Faculty Research
Posted by: Jan Wallace | December 10, 2009 | Comments Off
The David Lam Management Research Library is proud to showcase faculty publications, in a variety of ways:
1. A searchable database going back nine years, linked from our homepage – www.library.ubc.ca/lam.
The database includes direct links to the fulltext articles.
Recent additions include:
Benbasat, Izak
The adoption and use of IT artifacts: a new interaction-centric model for the study of user-artifact relationships
Al-Natour S, Benbasat I
Journal of the Association for Information Systems 10 (9) : 661 – 685
Cenfetelli, Ronald T
Interpretation of formative measurement in information systems research
Cenfetelli RT, Bassellier G
MIS Quarterly 33 (4) : 689 – 707
Hellmann, Thomas
What is the role of legal systems in financial intermediation? Theory and evidence
Bottazzi L, Da Rin M, Hellmann T
Journal of Financial Intermediation 18 (4) : 559 – 598
Puterman, Martin
Reducing patient wait times and improving resource utilization at British Columbia Cancer Agency’s ambulatory care unit through simulation
Santibanez P, Chow VS, Puterman M, et al.
Health Care Management Science 12 (4) : 392 – 407
Robinson Sandra L
The negative impact of ostracism on thwarted belongingness and workplace contributions
O’Reilly J, Robinson S
Academy of Management Proceedings : 1 – 7
For 2009, there are currently 88 articles representing 46 Sauder faculty authors.
Please notify us when you publish, in order to be included in the database.
2. The large TV screen on the wall of the Library displays faculty author photographs and citations to newly published works. It’s a nice way of showing our students the research output of their instructors, and tying together the teaching and research activities at Sauder.
Dec
10
December – New Books
Posted by: LamLibrarian | December 10, 2009 | Comments Off
The following books on sustainable business topics are available at the David Lam Library:
- Strategy for sustainability : a business manifesto (Harvard Business Press, 2009)
- The necessary revolution : how individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world (Doubleday, 2008)
- Start your own green business : your step-by-step guide to success (Entrepreneur Press, 2009)
- Green tech : how to plan and implement sustainable IT solutions (American Management Association, 2009)
Nov
20
November – E-Books: we’re getting closer and closer
Posted by: Jan Wallace | November 20, 2009 | Comments Off
We have been spending more of our book budgets on e-books lately. Rising campus enrolments make space in short supply, and prompt libraries such as David Lam to send their older, less-used collections to the Automated Storage Retrieval Unit in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, in order to free up space for learning activities. In the ASRS, the books and journals are safe and available for quick retrieval at click of a mouse.
UBC users – many of whom commute long distances or rarely come to campus – need research materials online and available remotely when needed. The e-book seems a good solution. A recent online poll of students in the David Lam Library revealed a 2:1 bias in favour of e-books. E-books can be searched by keyword, browsed, highlighted, and read on netbooks and other devices.
Over the past few years the UBC Library has been investing heavily in e-books, which now number about 320,000 titles in our catalogue. These include all e-books published by Springer, over 2000 e-books from Cambridge University Press, 4500 titles from eBrary, and 120,000 titles from Taylor & Francis.
A Sauder faculty member in the Operations & Logistics Division was pleased to hear about Simulation-based case studies in logistics education and applied research, a new book of Oplog case studies in manufacturing, supply chains, pharmaceutical distribution, fresh food supply chains, and several other industries. With an e-book such as this, cases could be assigned with no course pack requirement and no textbook purchase needed.
E-textbooks are the next frontier but there are hurdles to be surmounted before this is a truly viable route.
To browse some of our e-book collections, please see:
Cambridge UP E-Books
Oxford UP E-Books
SpringerLink or search in our Catalogue for specific titles and subjects.
Nov
20
November – New Books
Posted by: LamLibrarian | November 20, 2009 | Comments Off
A practical guide to learning using the case method, aimed at those who are new to this method. Written by faculty members at the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Also available at the Robson Square Library.
Teaching for Critical Thinking
A practical guide for educators, on how to introduce critical thinking in a higher education curriculum and in various disciplines. Topics include critical thinking instructional activities, critical thinking criteria and learning outcomes and instructional strategies to facilitate critical thinking. Part of the Green Guide series from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
A practical guide for educators, on inserting creative problem solving strategies into the curriculum. Part of the Green Guide series from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
A practical guide for educators on leading discussions in the classroom. Topics include; developing class atmosphere; managing group dynamics; managing conflict; and evaluating discussions. Part of the Green Guide series from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
For more books in the Green Guide series available at the Library, click here.
Nov
20
November – Databases
Posted by: LamLibrarian | November 20, 2009 | Comments Off
New Video Collection in Business Source Complete
A video collection is now available through the Business Source Complete database. The first videos in this growing collection are the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series.
From EBSCO (the database provider:
“The series features engaging video lectures from renowned professors and experts at the Harvard Business School. All lectures are captured from executive education programs, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues…The videos contain a table of content allowing the selection of a specific topic. Most lectures provide a transcript in PDF format.”
To access the videos, connect to Business Source Complete and click on the More link on the menu bar at the top. Select Business Videos/Images from the drop down box. Search for videos by keyword (e.g. Harvard).
Oct
30
October – Lam Library’s Digital Signage is ready for business
Posted by: Jan Wallace | October 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Together with several other libraries at UBC, the David Lam Library installed new digital signage this fall. A large flat screen in the Library displays event notices, academic advertisements, student club notices, and news from departments around Sauder.
Recent additions consist of biographies and photos of our new faculty members. Upcoming content will include announcements of new publications by Sauder faculty members and regular announcements from the Hari B. Varshney Business Career Centre.
To submit appropriate Sauder content, please contact Yani Mitchell in the David Lam Library.
Oct
30
October – “Behavior that is useful or enjoyable later in life”
Posted by: Jan Wallace | October 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Renowned psychologist and Harvard professor B.F. Skinner wrote, “It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student’s life.”
Librarians at the David Lam Library believe that the critical thinking and secondary research skills which we teach to Sauder School students enable them to excel not only in the assignment at hand, but throughout their time at Sauder, and throughout their careers.
Between September 1 and October 31, the David Lam librarians taught 32 classes in research methods to 1587 students. The orientations and classes were given in COMM 296, COMM 311, COMM 365, COMM 465, COMM 486M, COMM 497, ENGL 112, ECM, MBA ISP, MBA Precore, FTMBA Core, and MBA Exchange. Additional sessions were provided for undergraduate orientations and on behalf of the Hari B. Varshney Business Career Centre, as well as classes to the Sales and Marketing Executives program.
We have been experimenting with new instructional techniques. Clicker classes with the ECM’s and MBA’s this fall enabled us to quickly ascertain comfort levels with libraries, librarians and databases. Our interactive in-class quizzes, group discussion breakouts, and take-home quizzes test students’ comprehension of theories, techniques and resources being taught in class. MBA Pre-core students physically experienced the basics of search logic in the humorous Human Boolean exercise, in which they stand up and sit down based on rules which describe them by their undergraduate degrees and other characteristics.
Searching for information is an iterative process, and involves a series of interactions between thinking, research, revising, rethinking and research. Many students need coaching consultations throughout this multi-stage process. To help them at this critical preliminary stage, we’ve devised a tool – Jump-Start Your Research – which guides them through questions that help focus their thoughts.
As with other instruction at Sauder, our work involves more than directing students to useful resources for their assignments. Our real work, which occurs in the classroom and in reference consultations, is teaching critical thinking skills. And like other instructors, we work hard to articulate learning goals and outcomes, because we believe that these skills increase the success of our graduates and their future employers.
Oct
30
October – New Books
Posted by: Christina Sylka | October 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Building design strategy : using design to achieve key business objectives.
Intelligence gathered from international CEOs and presidents of major design firms, brand managers, and professors of design is combined with case studies from companies like Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Microsoft and Target to illustrate how design relates to corporate strategy.
Aug
28
August – Gearing up for Faculty Support
Posted by: Jan Wallace | August 28, 2009 | Comments Off
In August, like others in the academic world, we gear up for the whirlwind that constitutes our life during September through May.
Much behind-the-scenes work has been happening all summer to revise student library orientations, update online research guides, and prepare new in-class instruction modules.
We’re also thinking of new ways in which we can support our faculty at Sauder. We currently offer services such as course reserves, online subject guides, library orientations, and acquisition of needed resources for our faculty members. But there are some new services we’d like you to know about.
1) Online assignment guides and in-class instruction on the best resources for an assignment. We’ll work with you on your course assignments to identify valuable resources, potentially saving you time and improving the quality of student output.
2) Electronic reading lists, with links to online articles and books embedded by library staff. We can also train you on how to create persistent links to articles in our databases. (Unfortunately we cannot embed links to articles in the Harvard Business Review, due to an intellectual property discussion between Harvard Business Publishing and libraries.)
3) Embedding library resources within your WebCT/Vista course.
4) Providing training sessions on RefWorks to faculty and PhD students. RefWorks is the citation management software subscribed to by the UBC Library, and we have a RefWorks expert – Lindsay Ure – in the David Lam Library. We also provide resources and assistance in educating students about citing articles correctly.
5) Providing quizzes for your courses to improve students’ researching skills.
6) A new FAQ database from the Wharton School, which will point users to the best resources for complex business questions. As a partner with Wharton’s Lippincott Library, the Lam Library will be taking ownership of its own version of the Wharton FAQ and adding our own content. It’s a reference librarian at your fingertips 24/7, and will be coming this winter.
7) Finally, we’re building a database of names and biographies of Sauder School alumni who wish to come to Sauder and interact with students in the classroom. These are seasoned, senior-level alumni who’d like to convey their experience and wisdom to our students. We’ll provide you with their biographies and contact information, should you wish to host them as guest speakers in your classes.
We look forward to working with and supporting you this year!
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