A researcher for a film company needed pictures of people (Nixon, Kissinger, Haldeman, McLaughlin, Liebowitz, Zedong, etc.) as they appeared in 1985 (for casting purposes). Tara showed me a brilliant site – Corbis – that you can search by name, and limit to very specific date ranges. He was thrilled to find pictures of most of the people there, and could save the pictures and easily email them to the casting agent.

Hello all,
I will be teaching a series of Back To Basics sessions in the next three months and thought I would post the schedule here as there have been a few questions at the desk regarding such sessions.
I will also be doing research skills workshops for graduate students in the late summer and early fall with dates to be announced soon.
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.

Heads up – a number of Poli Sci students have been coming by the desk looking for books and articles on the topic of declining youth voter turnout in Canada.
The subject heading Voting – Canada reveals 56 titles, including the popular “Are young Canadians becoming political dropouts? : a comparative perspective” by Henry Milner. The Koerner copy is signed out, but fortunately this policy document is also freely available online..
The Elections Canada website Youth section has a link to publications and reports on youth voter turnout.
For scholarly articles, both Academic Search Premier and International Political Science Abstracts turned up some good results.
Update:
Patrick has turned up a great survey from StatsCan:

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) receives award for the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada

“What could better welcome spring than a delightfully clever comic treat from Blackbird Theatre? Part commedia dell’arte, part feminist fairy tale, Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love is sharp as a tack and charming as a love bouquet. (But mind the thorns!) In this tale of misdirection, misconception, and misalliance, an accidental princess woos as a man as she precipitates the ravelling and unravelling of not one, but three amours.”
Patrick’s friend Marie Stillin is in the cast. Info @ VECC

Vienna’s public library raising cash through erotica hotline.
*Would you like whipped cream with that?
(Correct German courtesy of M. Luebbe)

Thanks to the free one year subscription won by Theatre Faculty member, Jerry Wasserman, we have access to the wonderful database Theatre in Video until February 2008. The database features hundreds of definitive performances of the some of the world’s best known plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video. Browse by Production, Company, Theatre, Genre, or People.
T.S.

Apparently Harold Ballard, former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, is in the lead for number one for the Worst Canadian. We sure do take our hockey seriously.

Apparently Canadians (Ottawans at that) moseyed in at number 20 in the World’s Fastest Walkers study. Could have knocked me over with a feather.
T.S.