We’ve had a number of requests about books held by the extension library and whether they are available for non-distance students to check out as well. I checked with Borrower Services and was told that they can be checked out for 1 day by on-campus students. Better than hustling for a 2 hour reserve!

Sara

We have a trial of eBooks from Brill from 2007-2009 in seven humanities and social science subjects.
The trial is on until 15th November. The information page is here:
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1593

You may be seeing some Anthropology 232 (Ancient Latin America) students at the desk. There are about 90 students registered.
For their first assignment, they have to compare a scholarly and a popular article on the same archaeological site or civilization (Aztecs, Maya, Zapotec, Inca, Chimor).
The best resource to use is Academic Search Complete; show them how to refine to scholarly or popular using the sidebar limiters. They also have a list of popular journals to use such as National Geographic and Archaeology (ISSN 0003-8113). Limiting the search to a particular journal works well, especially Nat’l Geog.
If they’re struggling to find a topic, we have an excellent online encyclopedia, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures to get them started: http://www.oxford-mesoamerican.com/
(On the Anthro Subject Guide under Reference resources > Archaeology)
They can do a search for a culture or site of interest and use the bibliography at the end for article suggestions. The biblio includes popular sources, esp. National Geographic, and it has the eLink for quick access.

The Victorian popular culture database is now available on a trial basis until 10 November.
The information page is at http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1592
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Trial period: 15th October – 10th November 2009
Description:
A collection of primary sources, together with interpretive essays, describing popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930. It consists of two sections; Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic and Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks.

From Darrell:
Here is the assignment
http://www.econ.ubc.ca/green/226asg4.pdf
The students will need to go to Canadian journal and newspaper indexes.
The only data requirements are for price indexes which can be found for provinces and CMAs in CANSIM.

Guess who is on Google Street View?

From David Winter:
Articles ordered from external sources (via ILL or CISTI Order) are being delivered to UBC users via post to web. When an article is received, ILL staff match the article to the correct request and then it is posted to the web. The user receives an email message with a link to the article. The user then clicks on the link to obtain the article. The user does not need a password to access their articles.
For CISTI Orders articles, ILL staff are creating brief records in Relais (our ILL/DD software) in order to post the articles to the web and to send an email to the user.
The article can be accessed a total of 3 times within 15 days from the date of the email message. After either accessing the article 3 times or 15 days have passed, the article is no longer available to the user. If the user cannot access the article, please have them contact the ILL Offices:
UBC Vancouver – 604-822-6596/2274 or bvauill@interchange.ubc.ca
UBC Okangan 250-807-9114 or ill.ok@ubc.ca
for assistance. ILL staff can still access the article.
All articles received by 5:00PM Monday to Friday will be processed that day.
Under the Copyright Act, if the user wants to keep a copy of the article, they must print a copy. The article has been received for the purposoe of research or private study only. It is not for redistribution, retransmission or electronic storage. It cannot be used for any other purpose or reproduced without permission of the copyright owner.
If you have any questions, please contact me at 604-822-6721 or david.winter@ubc.ca

Students in LIBR 503, introduction to reference, have a variety of reference questions they need to answer. Aleteia is teaching the course this semester, and she has kindly provided an ANSWER KEY! for her assignments. I have put them in the assignment binder.

Overheard in LensCrafter, the eyeglasses store…
A young woman trying on new frames:
“These don’t make me look like a librarian do they?”

Rumour has it that there are two scanners in IKBLC in the Chapman Learning Commons on the Mac multimedia machines. And no charge! And bookable. Only 2 of the 4 machines have scanners, not sure which ones, but a call to CLC would give the answer.