May 30th, 2011 by Glenn Drexhage | Comments Off on Hockey history at UBC Library
Hey hockey fans – are you feeling Stanley Cup fever? Then tap into some hockey history courtesy of UBC Library – and impress fellow fans with your knowledge of the Vancouver Canucks and insights into the Canada’s storied sporting pastime. From anecdotes to kids’ lit, biographies to bibliographies, we’ve got something for everyone who’s hot on hockey. So come in, check us out – and cheer on the Canucks!
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May 30th, 2011 by Glenn Drexhage | Comments Off on Digitization program/project in Jewish Independent
An article on a digitization project at the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia appears in the May 20, 2011 issue of the Jewish Independent. This oral history project received support from the B.C. History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
You can view the article here: Jewish Independent.
And you can find out more about the digitization program here.
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May 30th, 2011 by Glenn Drexhage | Comments Off on Digitization program/project in Vancouver Sun
An article on a digitization project at the City of Vancouver Archives appears in the Vancouver Sun. This project, which involves the digitization of panorama images, received support from the B.C. History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
You can view the article here, and find out more about the digitization program here.
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May 30th, 2011 by Glenn Drexhage | Comments Off on Digital Tattoo on Dotto Tech
UBC Library’s Trish Rosseel and Cindy Underhill from UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology were recently invited to a radio interview on the Dotto Tech radio show. Trish and Cindy spoke about the Digital Tattoo project.
You can listen to the interview here: Digital Tattoo on Dotto Tech
And you can find out more about Digital Tattoo here.
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May 30th, 2011 by Elim | Comments Off on New Books at the Law Library – May 30, 2011
HV1444 .L448 2010 Shelley AM Gavigan & Dorothy E Chunn, eds., The Legal Tender of Gender: Welfare, Law and the Regulation of Women’s Poverty (Oxford: Hart, 2010). K5304.5 .H46 2011 Nicola Henry, War And Rape: Law, Memory And Justice (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011). KE2601 .G82 Peter S. Grant & Grant Buchanan, Canadian Broadcasting Regulatory Handbook, 10th [...]
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May 30th, 2011 by Yvonne Chan | Comments Off on Tests for students, but the grades go to teachers!
New York City education officials are developing more than a dozen new standardized tests, but their main purpose will be to grade teachers, not the students who take them.
Read the full New York Times article here.
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May 30th, 2011 by Lorne Madgett | Comments Off on Internet Explorer 9: Problems with Some Library Resources
Microsoft pushing you to upgrading to Internet Explorer 9? Resist!
Several of our Library e-Resources are not working with IE 9 (Web of Science, for example). This is commonly a problem with the latest version of browsers; the publishers/vendors/platforms just don’t upgrade themselves right away.
We do not have a list of resources that will/won’t work with IE9. So, if possible, just hold off for a while. All platforms comply with Microsoft’s changes eventually.
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May 30th, 2011 by Lorne Madgett | Comments Off on Engineering Village (Compendex): Site Down
**Engineering Village is back**
The Engineering Village site is down.
As this is a long weekend in the U.S., it may take a while to come back. Contact Science & Engineering for alternate resources.
Stay tuned for updates.
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