We now have access to two new humanities databases.
Empire Online is a full-text collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world.
Sections include:
– Section I: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969
– Section II: Literature and Empire
– Section III: The Visible Empire
– Section IV: Religion and Empire
– Section V: Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonialism, c.1607-2007
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 is a full-text database of primary sources, covering 110 documents (books and periodicals) from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. Supporting material includes introductory essays, biographies, and chronologies.
Sections include:
– Section I: Conduct and Politeness
– Section II: Domesticity and the Family
– Section III: Consumption and Leisure
– Section IV: Education and Sensibility
– Section V: The Body

The journal move and interfiling project is now at LA2128. Kerry anticipates that at some point today they will have finished moving the Level One books, and will start bringing the Ps downstairs from level 4. So… not all books in the Ps will be on level 4 anymore after today. More updates as they are available.

From Bev Richards:
As per my email message of Nov.29
The print station sporadically overcharges. The blog states the “Circulation cannot do refunds under $1.00, they don’t have change”. However, Circulation said they’ll do their best to provide a refund. During the day Mike Monteith has change, so they generally are able to give a refund for smaller amounts. Circulation Div. suggests staff at the Ref. or Jomcr desks write a note to give to the patron. Rather than write a note each time a patron comes to the desk, May has
created a simple form. Please fill in the amount of the overcharge and sign. The forms (pink) will be kept at both desks.
Reminder: the best thing to do is mention to the patron that staff at the Circulation desk MAY be able to provide a refund (under $1) depending if they have change. It’s a case of go and see. No guarantees.
Thanks, Bev

In today’s session (Feb. 14), Mary showed us some Statistics Canada surveys accessible from
The Data Services page–Online Tables and Analysis on the pull down menu.
Some titles of interest include Survey of Household Spending, Health Indicators, Justice Statistics. There is a lot of data here that’s very easy to forget when the reference heat of the moment strikes.
I have added a brief note on the Statistics Canada web page on the GovPubs web site.
Patrick.

In Mary’s gov pubs session today, we looked at statistical tables which are NOT in CANSIM, but which CAN be found online through the data services website (records for these tables are also in the catalogue, but you’d need to know the title to find them.)
On the data services site under “Choose a data product”, select the link called “online tables and analysis”. Mary lead us through these tables:
Inter-war Labour Database (1919 – 1944)

This is a key resource for ECON 490 students who need to find labour stats for the depression years.
Prior to 1945, some labour data existed, but it was fragmented (from a variety of sources, covering only some labour market segments, and using different statistical concepts). This source integrates this early data into a statistical series. See the abstract for more info.

Income Trends in Canada (1980- )

Contains more than 40 cross-classified income tables for Canada, the 10 provinces and 15 census metropolitan areas (CMAs). Major topics included are income distributions and inequality, earnings of men and women, income tax, government transfers, low income and sources of income.
Because we purchase the annual CD-ROM, we have online access- it is not otherwise freely available over the web.

Justice Statistics (1972- ?)

Tables on crime, police administration, adult and youth court activity, the correctional population and transition homes, as well as various issues such as criminal victimization and family violence, drawn from Stats Can surveys (see the abstract for a list of surveys).

Survey of Household Spending (1997-2005)

Detailed expenditures at the household level on a wide variety of goods and services. Also includes dwelling characteristics and possession of household equipment and services.

Health Indicators (1999 -)

Canadian health indicators at the health region and provincial/territorial levels. Maps available for selected indicators.

UBC Library now has access to the electronic versions of four titles from Idea Group:
1. Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology
2. Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction
3. Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine
4. Handbook of Research on Nature-Inspired Computing for Economics and Management
Our online access is in addition to our print holdings.
The URLs for the eBooks are located in the catalogue records for the print titles (not in the list of indexes and databases.)

Each winter, the librarians gather …

A little drawn out, but still worth a look.
Thanks KB for the tip!

Hi all
We have had a few students telling us they cannot access RefWorks from home, even with the proxy or VPN. RefWorks has issued a notice that the software is ‘extremely slow’ if you use Internet Explorer 7 as the browser. This is due to IE’s Phishing Filter (a new feature to IE7) that evaluates web page contents. I wonder if that is why some students are having problems?
This is the ‘patch’ that RefWorks is recommending to solve the problem
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/928089

Students from a CAP class have been handing in their assignment here at the Ref Desk for Kimberley. We aren’t sure if this is the right procedure. I called the prof, but she wasn’t there. With Kimberley away, we are just accepting them and leaving them in Kimberley’s mailbox.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is now available online. (We also have the three-volume print set in KR Ref at F1218.6 .O95 2001.)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures chronicles Pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern Mesoamerica in over 600 articles. Encompassing the great civilizations of the pre-Columbian era (including the Olmec, Aztec, and Maya peoples) up through the colonial and postcolonial periods, the Encyclopedia covers art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, history, and historiography of the region.
This book will be useful for students in ANTH 232 (Ancient Latin America) and ANTH 323 (Archaeological Foundations of Mesoamerican Civilizations).
There are two ways to find this ebook:
1) Search for the title in the library catalogue and follow the link in the catalogue record, or
2) Look for the eBook in the listing of Indexes and Databases