Sep

22

GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award

Posted by: | September 22, 2015 | Comments Off on GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award

Want a chance to win $500 and share your research with the world? Contribute your graduate non-thesis coursework to the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award Collection in cIRcle, UBC’s digital repository, for the chance to win one of two $500 awards. Your work will also be featured in popular UBC Library publications, social media channels, […]

Oct

20

Leisure reading survey at the UBC Library

Posted by: | October 20, 2010 | Comments Off on Leisure reading survey at the UBC Library

The UBC Library and the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies are conducting a survey investigating interest in a leisure-reading collection at the UBC Library.  The survey is online  from October 18 to 31 and takes five to 10 minutes to complete.  Once you’ve completed the survey, you’ll be entered in a draw to win one of four $50.00 gift […]

Oct

15

New GIS Users Group

Posted by: | October 15, 2010 | Comments Off on New GIS Users Group

This month, the UBC Library will begin hosting meetings of the newly-rekindled UBC GIS Users Group. This group will be a gathering of students, researchers, faculty and staff on campus who work in some way with, or are interested in, geographical information systems (or science) (GIS). The meetings will be held monthly on the last […]

Sep

21

THE LIVING LIBRARY

Posted by: | September 21, 2010 | Comments Off on THE LIVING LIBRARY

On Wednesday, September 22, UBC Library comes alive with its first-ever “Living Library” event – an occasion that allows participants to meet a collection of fascinating figures, including students from Afghanistan and Nigeria, gay writers, a pioneering doctor, an extreme athlete/traveller and more. A Living Library features real, live people who are “lent out” as […]

Mar

16

March: Google Public Data Explorer

Posted by: | March 16, 2010 | Comments Off on March: Google Public Data Explorer

Thanks to Koerner’s Government Publications Division for their recent update on Google Public Data Explorer, an experimental visualization tool which enables users to bring international economic and statistical data to life. Faculty and students can work with this new tool to mash up publicly available statistical data using line graphs, bar graphs, maps and bubble charts. They can […]

Oct

30

October – “Behavior that is useful or enjoyable later in life”

Posted by: | October 30, 2009 | Comments Off on October – “Behavior that is useful or enjoyable later in life”

Renowned psychologist and Harvard professor B.F. Skinner wrote, “It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student’s life.” Librarians at the David Lam Library believe that the critical thinking and secondary research skills which we teach to Sauder School students enable […]

Jul

10

July in the David Lam Library – July 10, 2009

Posted by: | July 10, 2009 | Comments Off on July in the David Lam Library – July 10, 2009

During May, June and July, the Library databases get taken out, shaken up, stirred and turned inside out by our MBA interns. You might say the same thing happens with the Lam librarians, as they perform their brain acrobatics, swiftly moving from one industry to another, one topic to another to support the intern research. […]

Jul

10

New DVDs and Videos – July 10, 2009

Posted by: | July 10, 2009 | Comments Off on New DVDs and Videos – July 10, 2009

The David Lam Library has acquired 8 new DVDs and videos in the past few months on a variety of topics: Top ten tips for entrepreneurs Bill Moyers journal: mortgage mess Globalization and what it means for Canadian companies 6 essential steps to getting that new job Boomerism: business targets retirees Organic entrepreneurs: competing with […]

Jul

10

New Books – July 10, 2009

Posted by: | July 10, 2009 | Comments Off on New Books – July 10, 2009

New books on the financial crisis at the David Lam Library Bamber, Bill et al. Bear trap:  the fall of Bear Stearns and the panic of 2008, HB 3722 B36 2008 Cohan, William D. House of cards:  a tale of hubris and wretched excess on Wall Street, HG 4930.5 C64 2009. Lewis, Michael M. Panic:  […]

Jul

10

New Databases and Websites – July 10, 2009

Posted by: | July 10, 2009 | Comments Off on New Databases and Websites – July 10, 2009

New Databases Sage Journals Online SAGE publishes more than 520 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. Click here to access the database. Oxford Journals Online Oxford Journals is a division of […]

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