Publication of these reports from Cambridge University Press is pending June 2007

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EuroDocs (http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu) is a new portal to European primary source documents in facsimile, transcription, or English translation. This (gated) wiki links to freely available European primary historical documents on key historical happenings, sorted by country, and arranged chronologically.
If you’re interested in contributing, request a password through eurodocs@byu.edu.

Elim Wong over at the Law Library has created a wonderful new infopage for LexisNexis Academic – Legal Research at http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1317. LexisNexis Academic Legal Research has a number of different search forms for each type of information (patents, regulations, legal news, directories, etc), and these have all been linked directly off the information page, along with a description of types of materials.
Some of the search screens we might use in HSS include:

Contains population information in 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government (excluding that of Hong Kong S.A.R., Macao S.A.R. and Taiwan Province), and some cities, for example, population migration status, marital status, educational level and employment status, etc. All tables are in Excel. 3 discs.
Unfortunately, the designated cd rom workstation does not have current enough Windows to operate the discs. They are filed in the CD rom cabinet by title, with a note indicating this. They are easy enough to load on newer machines.
Patrick.

Does anyone have a good idea of where plugs for laptops are available in the study cubicles? I know that a number of the ones on the upper floors no longer work, but I was wondering if there were a map for remaining locations of functioning plugs. If not, could we make one?

From Lynne Gamache:
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let everybody know that both Koerner and Woodward will again be offering extended hours during the upcoming exam period.
Koerner will be open until 1 am every single night during this period.
Woodward will be open until midnight Sundays through Thursdays (but closing at their regular time of 6 pm on Fridays and Saturdays).

Never disrespect the librarians.

Students from Ling 319 are looking for books and articles on a language family for an annotated bibliography. They need 8 sources. The resources have to be on the language family, not on a specific language.
A subject heading search will do the trick; just follow this format:

I am a big fan of the grand prize winner of Pimp My Bookcart

The interfiling of books and journals has been completed on Floor 4. Level 4 ended with PR 4799, with Level 5 starting with PR 4800.
So to recap
Level One – A to end of PNs
Level Four – PQs to PR4799
Level Five – PR4800 to ?
Level Six – ? to Zs
We know there is a need for new bookmarks, floor plans, etc. Once the move is complete, we will proceed with these.