The Survivors Guide to Sessional Papers of Canada 1867- 1925 currently gives the wrong location for the Index/ Journals of the House of Commons. [Cumulative indexes]
J 103.C2 as GP I&A.They are on the HSS office shelves. The handout will be corrected next week. Feel free to refer students to govpubs folks. There is also the online web guide to the Sessional Papers that Patrick and I did at http://toby.library.ubc.ca/webpage/webpage.cfm?id=536 which gives a bit more detail and picture examples of how to find Sessional Papers.
There are students looking for pre-confederation sessional papers as well.They seem to need material from the 1840s. For British material, refer them to the Irish University Press series of British parliamentary papers. Colonies: Canada. FC470 .I74 1968 on floor 1.
The Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada on microfilm, AW 1 R5143 contain sessional papers from 1841(?) -1859. The papers are in the Appendices at the end of each session. The table of contents is easily browseable, giving the location on the reels by letter. The students can do this fairly easily once shown.
Patrick.

This course is offered through Corpus Christi College. The prof has given a choice of 20 topics covering family, religion, vikings and visigoths, roles of women, philosophy and more. Interdisciplinary exponential.
A copy of the assignment is in the reference binder, and is due Nov. 28th. The prof has suggested various paths for research (including Historical Abstracts, which doesn’t cover the medieval period).
My first attempt with a student was not a happy one. Perhaps you specialists out there can cobble together some appropriate sources? (the list could be long…).
I have given KB a copy of the assignment as well. Perhaps he can mitigate this somewhat.
This message is from Patrick, not Ellen.

Thanks to Shawnna for finding this YouTube diversion of the day. Best with the sound turned on!

For their “own safety” a couple of schools in the UK have put RFIDs in School Uniforms. I knew they couldn’t just use RFIDs for books…they had to put them to some more veiled sinister use.
Tara

The ENGL 112 class taught by Sarah Parry will be working on a research essay assignment with a Works Cited. Students are being asked to provide 5 peer-reviewed scholarly sources that are relevant to a topic based on pre-assigned readings. Materials from the bibliographies of assigned readings are not accepted. A copy of the assignment can be found in the Course Assignments binder at the Reference Desk.
Topic A: Ethnic Studies
Possible search terms: Try the following keyword search:
Academic Search Premier or Sociological Abstracts: (immigrant women or women immigrants) and (labour market or employment) plus whatever occupation or country the students have chosen to research. “Ethnic economy” can be used with some success.
NB: Limit to Peer-Reviewed Sources
Contemporary Women’s Issues: keyword (immigrant) and select Workplace from the Subject Area drop down menu. *You can also select Geographic region if the student has selected a national context.
Topic B: Adolescent Studies
In Academic Search Premier, AnthroSource, Sociological Abstracts: A useful search is friendship and (school or education) and sociability or a search with “friendship” “adolescence” and “education” or “high school”. The instructor has suggested that students may want to research “esl” and “friendship” and read professional ESL journals. UBC holds a few ESL journals.

Topic C: Labour Studies

Academic Search Premier, Web of Science
Suggested searches: “trade unions and (globalization or coalitions)” or “union and minorities” or “unions and environmentalism” depending on the students’ topic of choice.
NB: The instructor has indicated that some students may choose to look at teachers/nurses and unions, although this is a much harder topic. She has suggested that students may need to contact her for recommended sources.
Topic D: Gender Studies
Academic Search Premier, Sociological Abstracts, Contemporary Women’s Issues:
Useful keywords are “gender, language, discourse studies” and whatever profession students are investigating such as “law, medicine, broadcasting (specify tv, radio, etc.) The term ‘sociolinguistics’ is also be a useful search term.

The English 112 assignment from May 24th is back. See Tara’s blog entry for that date under “Assignments” for ideas. The last topic – where they are writing about ‘vocal authority’, I found the term ‘sociolinguistics’ to also be a useful search term.

On Thursday, a small group Humanities 101 students and their teaching assistants will be using 217 from 5:30-6:30 to show the students how to sign on to email, one at a time, no projector necessary. Other students can stay in the lab, no problem.
Just an FYI, don’t be alarmed if you see a (smallish) bunch of folks heading for 217. The lead TA is Stephanie.
Sheryl

Students in Family Studies 323 and 324 have a literature review due on November 9. I have set up a drop in session for this Wednesday October 31 from 12.00-2.00 in Koerner 217, so feel free to encourage students to drop by.
There is also a course page, available here:
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2131
Thanks,
Lindsay
UPDATE:
About 6 students came to the drop in session on October 31 and most of them were asking how to write a literature review. I showed them the links on the FAQs for Graduate Student Researchers page but, for both classes, they have quite specific instructions from the their instructor about how to format their review, so I have referred them back to the professor for those types of questions.

Confusion no more! Richard has graciously demonstrated how to load the fancy copy room stapler which has left a number of us scratching our heads. Here are some step by step instructions:
1. Get the Bostitch B8 staples from the Journals/Microforms desk drawer (Make sure they are the B8 staples, as the regular ones won’t work.)
2. Mosey to the copy room and confront the empty stapler, letting it know who’s boss.
3. Pull out the black tab at the back of the stapler.
4. Drop the staples into the gap making sure that the sides of the staples fit into the grooves.
5. Push the black tab back in and test the stapler to make sure its working.
6. Saunter back to your desk, triumphant.
Any questions? Ask Richard, the stapler wrangler.
Tara

The Biology 140 assignment has started! Students are coming to the desk looking for AW5… theses and dissertations on creatures like Tigriopus Californicus. Although they might want to look at the reference lists in the dissertations as a resource, the best place for them to be is in Woodward Library where they have all the resources for this assignment of over 1000 students. Sally also has a course page for the assignment which includes an online tutorial.