September 19th, 2011 by tombritt | Comments Off
Heath-related uses of GIS is the topic for September’s UBC GIS Users Group meeting. We will have an informal discussion and presentations from a variety of people in Health GIS. We will hear from folks in Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR), and the School of Population and Public Health. Come hear how GIS is being used in the field of health research. All are welcome.
Location: Koerner Library, Room 216 (Level 2)
Date: Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM
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September 19th, 2011 by Katherine Miller | Comments Off
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 at 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Make your searches more efficient and effective!
Join us for this ONLINE live workshop on CINAHL, which is a key access to research literature for nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy and other allied health professions, and on Psycinfo, a major index to psychosocial aspects of health, covers efficient and effective searching by using subject and keyword searching, boolean operators, managing the results, getting the full-text, and saving searches and creating alerts.
REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS HERE: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2504
Posted in Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Audiology & Speech Sciences, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Biology, Botany, Cellular & Physiological Sciences, Dentistry, Dermatology & Skin Science, Dietetics/Nutrition, Environmental Health, Family Practice, Fisheries, Food Science, Forestry, History of the Life Sciences, Land and Food Systems, Medical Genetics, Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, Midwifery, Nursing, Obsterics & Gynaecology, Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Orthopaedic Surgery, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physical Therapy, Population & Public Health, Psychiatry, Radiology, Surgery, Urologic Sciences, Zoology | Comments Off
September 19th, 2011 by deewin | Comments Off
The B.C. government says it will scrap an $89-million software program to track elementary- and high-school students’ attendance and marks after a consultant’s report concluded the software needs to be replaced.The province says schools will have to use the program until a new system is brought in, by about 2014.
Introduced more than six years ago, the B.C. Student Information System, better known as BCeSIS, has faced a host of complaints, including that it was expensive for cash-strapped school districts and unreliable. Last year, the system had a provincewide crash in the first week of school.
A $250,000 review of the system by Gartner Inc. said that BCeSIS is not meeting the needs of the province and schools. The review concluded the system was not generally user-friendly, didn’t provide satisfactory reports and data analysis, and would be more difficult to service and upgrade as it got older. The software was created specifically for the province, but the consultant has suggested B.C. now buy existing software. Vancouver school board chairwoman Patti Bacchus said she would like to see a new system in place sooner than 2014.
Click here to read the entire Vancouver Sun article.
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September 19th, 2011 by Glenn Drexhage | Comments Off
UBC alum George Van Wilby and his storied campus photographs are profiled in the new issue of Trek Online, courtesy of UBC Archives’ Erwin Wodarczak.
You can find the article here.
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September 19th, 2011 by Glenn Drexhage | Comments Off
The top tips for UBC Library appear in the latest issue of UBC Reports, ”Back to School and In the Cloud” (UBC Reports | Vol. 57 | No. 9 | Sep. 1, 2011). The item appears below, and can also be found on the UBC Reports website.
Top 10 tips for connecting with UBC Library, without setting foot in the stacks
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