Every issue of Life Magazine from its debut in November, 1936 to the end of 1972 is available via Google Books. You can browse the cover of each issue and search the text of articles.

LIFE.com is the “the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the Web”, combining the Life Magazine photo and Getty Images collections.

UBC Library holds the entire run of Life Magazine in print.

Beginning next week, students can drop in to the Chapman Learning Commons for “one-on-one help with the planning and research stages of course assignments. Students receive research assistance in a comfortable atmosphere; help mapping out a customized research strategy for assignments; and referral to library experts in their subject area. Research Rescue volunteers are UBC grad students.”

Research Rescue
Chapman Learning Commons, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
February 1-12 & March 1-April 9
Monday-Thursday 12-2pm, 4-6pm and Friday 12-2pm

And of course, we’re available for library research assistance in person, by phone, email, instant messenger, and on AskAway all year round:

• Sheryl Adam, sociology liaison librarian, UBC Vancouver
• Marjorie Mitchell, sociology liaison librarian, UBC Okanagan
• Ask a Librarian (links for all subjects, evening and weekend help and Askaway)

La diaspora italiana dopo la Seconda Guerra mondiale = The Italian diaspora after the Second World War.
Proceedings of “La diaspora italiana dopo la II Guerra mondiale (2006 : Bivongi, Italy) Bivongi, Italy: International AM, [2007].
Call number and location.

Liebenberg, Linda & Ungar, Michael. Researching resilience. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009.
Call number and location.

Miller, Monica L. Slaves to fashion : Black dandyism and the styling of Black diasporic identity. Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Call number and location.

Nielsen, Ingrid & Russell Smyth. Migration and Social Protection in China. New Jersey: World Scientific, c2008.

Call number and location.

Lloyd, J., Li L. & Hertzman, C. Early experiences matter: Lasting effect of concentrated disadvantage on children’s language and cognitive outcomes. Health & Place. Volume 16, Issue 2, p. 371-380 (March 2010).

This study, conducted by UBC found that the “neighbourhood socioeconomic conditions that children experience in Kindergarten influence their later language and cognitive outcomes in early adolescence, over and above current neighbourhood context and various child-level covariates” up to seven years later. Lloyd and Hertzman are part of UBC’s Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP).

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) “provides access to nearly 70,000 images in the collections of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM).” a moral thermometer (1833); Most of the collection’s items date from the 1600’s onward, and include 158 images from Canada, including the poster above. An area of particular richness is war and military images from the U.S. Civil War through the Korean War.

Beginning Monday, November 30, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre will remain open 24/7 until 1:00am on Tuesday, December 22. Important details here.

People looking for some sleep should check out UBC Housing’s Commuting Students Hostel for inexpensive overnight stays until December 21.

From now until November 15, UBC Library users have access to a trial of more than 800 recent electronic titles in the humanities and social sciences from the Dutch publisher, Brill. While only 78 titles have been assigned to the “social science” category, my keyword search for “urban” pulled up titles from throughout the collection.

Please have a look and let us know whether you think this collection would be a valuable addition to UBC Library.

The new edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association continues to draw comment from its users – some of whom are sociologists. It has become newsworthy: Inside HigerEd ran a story last week, Correcting a Style Guide. Comments to the story include a link to a petition that demands that the APA replace all copies of the first printing, at no charge.

At Koerner Library, we’ve added pockets to the front of our copies and placed printouts of the corrections in them. We’ve asked our book supplier to obtain replacement copies from the second printing for from APA, without UBC Library having to pay any additional charges.

“Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.”

To celebrate the world’s first Open Access Week,October 19-23, UBC is programming a series of events and distinguished speakers from our community who will be describing how they participate in the open access movement.

Bruce Carruthers

After Bruce Carruthers’ talk, “The Economy of Promises: The Origins of Credit Rating in 19th-century America“, you may want to read more of his work.

Books:

• Rescuing business : the making of corporate bankruptcy law in England and the United States. (with Terence C. Halliday) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
• City of capital : politics and markets in the English financial revolution. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996.

Articles since 2005

• Via a shared Refworks account here. Click the UBC eLINK button to connect to full text.

Photo credit: Radcliffe Quarterly—Summer 2007