From David Winter:
Hello
CISTI Orders should be working properly now. Please let me know if users continue to have problems accessing the order form.
Due to changes in the CISTI servers, we are now using IP authentication to authenticate our users. This means remote users will need to establish a VPN connection before they can use CISTI Orders. Please continue to ask users to use the CISTI Order page as we are still using ezproxy to block community cardholders from ordering CISTI material.
If you have any questions, please contact me.
Thanks David

Hi everyone
The students in LIBR 530, Advanced Reference, have created a wonderful collection of online guides to various subject areas. They are worth taking a look at, and if you can think of ways to use them or link to them beyond posting here, do let me know. You need a password to view these, and it is reference.
Medieval European History
Philosophy of Science
Federalism
Jazz Studies
Canadian History
Film Theory
Near Eastern Archaeology
Canadian Literature
Bivalve Molluscan Aquaculture
African American Studies
Egyptology
Canadian Politics
Victorian English Literature
Climatology
Spanish History
Quebec History
Nutrition Science

Hi all,
Finding UBC Calendar Archives has come up at the desk a few times of late and I thought I would post a shortcut here:
Here is the link to the microform entry in the catalogue for the UBC Calendar or you can simply direct patrons to the following call number: AW1 .R7544
Print copies are available in the ASRS or Law Special Collections: LE3 .B8
Online copies from the present to 1999 are available online from the Student Services UBC Calendar Archive
A brief version of the above information is also penciled into the HSS Ref Desk manual.
Tara

ProQuest has created a handy search widget for their databases that you can imbed right in your subject guides or other webpages. Here’s how it looks (this one links to PQ Dissertations and Theses). Go on, give it a try:

function proQuestSearchGo(){
var url=”http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=305&FT=1&DBId=15119&SQ=”;
var searchInputEl = document.getElementById(“proQuestSearchInput”);
document.location=url + encodeURIComponent(searchInputEl.value);
}

function handleKeyPress(e,form){
var key=e.keyCode || e.which;
if (key==13){
proQuestSearchGo();
}
}

 

Enter your search terms:

Create your own widget here (it’s quick and easy!):
http://www.proquest.com/products_pq/proquest/widgets/search.shtml
I’ve added the widget to the Anthropology Subject Guide, in the section on theses and dissertations.

The tiny pencils at the reference desk have been joined by a donation of pens from the Sheryl Adam and Richard Rosenberg pen collection. Ancient conferences, bankrupt vendors, they’re all there, and free to a good home.

Perogy Night at the Ukrainian Orthodox Community Center tonight!
http://www.cbc.ca/livingvancouver/?page=segment&sid=1171

Kinda funny, kinda not. Have a listen here.
What do you think?

Check out this nifty site from MIT: The Humanities Virtual Browsery.
http://scripts.mit.edu/~gpadilla/blog/
The browsery is designed to highlight new books in the Humanities, prizewinners, and “Hidden in the Stacks” favorites. Each post includes links to the catalogue record, other books by the author, comments from readers, book reviews, and RSS feeds. A virtual companion to the new book truck!

Sue Andrews reports that new Microlog records that are downloaded from ProQuest now include a hyperlink to the online full-text when available. No more having to search Google for the title to find out if it’s available online for these latest records!
Look at “BC mining plan [microform] : report on progress” as an example.

Students are reporting that they are unable to log in to the public terminals with their CWL. The library barcode and pin did work for these students. Tracey in systems thinks this problem may be related to the change earlier this month in the CWL that requires that Netinfo/Interchange accounts are correctly synchronized with a CWL account.
What does this mean, you ask? If the student hasn’t synchronized their CWL and interchange accounts, the CWL login won’t work. They can successfully log in with their barcode and pin.