An upcoming talk in the UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies Colloquium Series may be of interest to Anthropologists:

The Archives of the Nisga’a Nation

The Nisga’a Lisims Government is concerned to establish proper care of its archival material. This talk will report on a consultation with the Nisga’a people about measures needed to provide good care of its archives. Professor Emeritus Terry Eastwood will explain the situation of Nisga’a Nation over the years and the character of its governance of its affairs and of the archives it has accumulated and preserved to date. It will then look at the prospects of building an archival program of the government.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
Sherrington Room, Woodward Biomedical Library

The new Faculty of Arts Outreach schedule for this term is out. This semester’s workshops are on the theme of intellectual property in a digital environment, and include workshops on Refworks, Google Scholar/Metalib, plus two new workshops: the first on finding and attributing digital images in papers and presentations, and the second on preserving your digital reputation.

For more information, you can download the flyer here, or click the “Continue reading…” link below for descriptions, dates, and locations.
Finding & Using Digital Images
Learn how to find the best images for your presentation or paper and how to cite them.

Monday, January 14, noon – 1:00pm
Friday, February 15, noon – 1:00pm

Your Digital Reputation
Don’t become a headline! Learn how to manage your digital identities so you reflect the image you want – now and in the future.

Monday, January 28 noon – 1:00pm
Monday, February 11 noon – 1:00pm
Wednesday, March 26 noon – 1:00pm

RefWorks for the Arts
Use RefWorks to format your bibliographies and footnotes automatically!

Thursday, January 24 9:00 – 11:00pm
Tuesday, February 19 2:00 – 4:00pm
Friday, March 7 1:00 – 3:00pm
Please register for one of the Refworks workshops at http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/
description.cfm?sessionid=5194

Location: Koerner Library, Room 217

Google Scholar and Beyond
Go straight to academic articles via Google Scholar; search up to ten article databases at a time with Metalib, and more . . .

Friday, February 1 noon – 1:00pm
Wednesday, Feb. 13 noon – 1:00pm

All sessions in Buchanan B114 , with the exception of RefWorks (Koerner 217).

Sponsored by UBC Library, and supported in part by funding from the Office of the Dean of Arts.

Data from the 2006 Census on Aborginal people (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) in Canada was released today.

Some of the highlights include:

• In 2006, Aboriginal people in Canada surpassed the one-million mark, reaching 1,172,790.
• Between 1996 and 2006, the Aboriginal population grew by 45%, compared with 8% for the non-Aboriginal population.
• The census counted 50,485 Inuit, 389,785 Métis and 698,025 First Nations people in 2006.

There are a number of ways to access this data. Start with the announcement page at http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/release/Aboriginal.cfm.

From there, data is organized into three broad categories: Data products, Analysis series, and Geography.

• The Data products category presents Aboriginal peoples data for a wide range of standard geographic areas, and includes Topic-based tabulations, Aboriginal Population Profile, Community Profiles, and the 2006 Census Tract (CT) Profiles.
• The Analysis series category presents links articles analyzing the data, including “Aboriginal Peoples in Canada in 2006:Inuit, Métis, and First Nations, 2006 Census Findings“.
• The Geography category presents thematic maps containing data for standard geographic areas of Canada and GeoSearch2006 (the Internet mapping application).

Using the census data can be challenging. If you need help finding the information you need, please come to the Koerner Library Reference desk.

This coming Friday, the Law & Society@UBC group presents a talk that will be of interest to Anthropologists:

Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez and Indigenous Women’s Rights: Can Gender and Sovereignty Co-Exist?

by Dr. Cheryl Suzack, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria and a member of the Batchewana First Nations of Ojibways.

Abstract:
This paper explores the cultural and political implications for Indigenous women of the Martinez decision by taking up the following question: What are the implications for indigenous-feminist politics if the racial sovereignty asserted by tribal nations depends on socially-sanctioned sexual identities? It takes up this question by arguing for the value of a law and literature project that explores how Indigenous women writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko challenge conventional associations of gender identity.

Friday, January 11, 2008
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
UBC Faculty of Law, Room 149

The Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC is looking for submissions for the 2nd Annual Anthropology Film Festival at UBC.

The theme of this year’s festival is youth and collaborative film production. Two categories of entries are being solicited:

1) new trends in ethnographic film with a focus on collaborative production;
2) films produced by youth (filmakers must be 18 or younger to qualify for this category).

The submission deadline is February 8th, 2008. See the Ethnographic Film Unit events page for more information and a link to the submission form.

Welcome, everyone, to 2008 and the start of a new term. If you’re wanting to get a head-start on course readings, here’s a quick tip – did you know you can search for a list of course texts that your prof has put on reserve at the library? Here’s how:

1) Go to the library catalogue (http://webcat.library.ubc.ca/, or from the library home page at www.library.ubc.ca)

2) Click on the course reserve tab – it looks like this:

3) Search for your course by course name or instructor using the pull down menus, like this:

And that’s it!

The December issue of the UBC Department of Anthropology NEWS Bulletin (No. 2(3): 3 Dec. 2007) is out and available on the Anthropology department website.

As always, it includes a list of new faculty publications:

The exam period runs from Dec 4 – 18 – check the Student Services portal for a list of Anthropology exam times and locations.

Did you know that the AMS has an exam database with final exams from a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses? Studying from these examples can be an excellent way to prepare and supplement your course knowledge. Select ANTH from the dropdown menu on the AMS Exam Database website to see what is available for Anthropology exams.

Good luck to all on your finals!

Both Koerner and Woodward libraries will be open extended hours during the exam period from December 4-18.

Koerner’s extended hours:
Monday – Friday: 8am – 1am
Saturday, Sunday: 10am -1am

Woodward’s extended hours:
Monday – Thursday: 8am – 12midnight
Friday: 8am – 6pm
Saturday: 10am – 6pm
Sunday: 12noon – 12midnight

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A reminder of today’s Medical Anthropology Seminar:

“One size fits all? The experience of mothers and fathers in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit”
Dr. Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC , Ph.D., Dept. of Pediatrics

27 November (Tuesday) 3:30-4:30
Anthropology and Sociology Building Rm 205

Dr. Albersheim’s Ph.D. dissertation, “Matters of life and death in the neonatal intensive care unit : decision-making for the not-yet-competent“is available online through the Proquest Theses and Dissertations database or in microform in Koerner Library.

(Note that you’ll have to be on campus or authenticated via VPN to access the online copy of the dissertation through the UBC Library licensed resource, Proquest Theses and Dissertations.)