Hi all:
The groups study rooms on Level One cannot be booked over the phone. If you receive a request over the phone, please let the person know that the rooms are booked on a first come – first served basis, and that s/he will need to come in to the Library to book a room.
Thanks!
Kimberley

The journals up to BF 431 have been moved to swing space as of October 10th. Interfiling hasn’t started yet.

The LIBR 503 class has an assignment due Tuesday that contains the following questions:
What is the address of an association called the Beer Can Collectors of America? When was it founded? How many members does it have? How many Canadian chapters are there?
The information can be found in the Encyclopedia of Associations, AS22. E5. There is an index–use the word “beer.”

There is an ongoing problem students are encountering with the print workstation adding “extra” copies when they submit their print job. Usually the problem is limited to 2 extra pages. If they wish, you can write them a note and they can get a refund for the extra copies from the Circ desk. Patrick.

From now until Nov. 1, students in Geography 210 may ask at the ref. desk for materials concerning the ecology and history of Vancouver’s old streams. I’ve placed all relevant HSS map and atlas materials on top of the map cabinets for them under signage. Please don’t authorize short term loans for these materials (photocopying is OK).
Note that what we have here is only a portion of everything their prof. has directed them to. They will have to visit other UBC Library branches as well.
I’ve placed a copy of the explanatory assignment sheet in the Class Assignments binder under the ref. desk.
Tim

The process of interfiling books and journals has begun! The journals in the As are being moved to compact shelving ‘swing space’ to make room for the interfiling process to start. There is signage by the bound journals area as well as a large sign pointing to the journal swing space. I will try to post updates on the blog regularly, plus to the website on the Koerner branch page.

A student came to the desk wanting to open a document he had created using open source word processing, and Word wouldn’t do it. There are a number of web word-processing options available, including Zohowriter and Writely. Zohowriter opened his document and he was thrilled.

Joe Tennis’s LIBR 502 class will be using the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature (2002-2005), Women’s Thesaurus, ERIC Thesaurus, and LCSH big red books for an assignment due later in October. Because there are 40+ students in the class, it seemed easier to have all copies in one place; these items are temporarily shelved at the rear counter of the Koerner Reference Desk. The catalogue record also reflects this temporary location. The students should reshelve the books in this location.

The GAAs attended a session today on communications. Some of the situations they have come across in the past month were discussed, and we thought it would be useful for all of us to offer wording and strategies to deal with some of the common situations. I will start the ball rolling; please log in and edit the post to add your thoughts! (comments have to be approved, editing is faster…)
Why don’t you have the textbook for my course?
I understand it is frustrating to have to buy expensive textbooks, but because textbooks change almost every year, UBC Library can’t afford to buy new copies each year. Our collection provides additional material beyond what is in the textbooks. You could consider buying used, or sharing a textbook with a classmate to reduce your costs.
Can you find me more information (after helping for the patron for a while, big lineup at desk).
Let me quickly review what we just did… This should get you started in finding information on your topic. Why don’t you try some searches in these resources at one of the computers here, and when you need more help, come on back.

Several students have come to me asking for help with an assignment for Steven Heine’s course, Psyc 407 Cultural Psychology. They believe that they are to do a literature review of experiments performed on members of 2 or more cultural groups, where there is an analysis of cultural differences in responses. Administration of questionnaires does not count as” an experiment”.
According to Dr. Heine, the assignment asks them to design their own experiment to be performed on members of 2 or more cultural groups, etc., and there is no requirement for a comprehensive literature review.
If a student does feel compelled to do a review, send them along to me and I’ll show them the workaround. (PsycINFO doesn’t have a limit for this, darn.)
Sheryl