Last week saw the return of the “deaf” person who solicits donations [in a very persistent and somewhat threatening way] in return for a card printed with the fingerspelling alphabet. Steve Peets, the Library monitor notes that this person a known problem, and if you see him or get reports that he’s bothering people, call Patrol. No need to be worried that he’ll
approach you: he stays away from staff.

Hallo,
Ellen was showing me how to answer emails today, and two of them were about off-campus access. We’ve just created a new folder for filing email questions that involve connecting from home – VPN/proxy stuff.
After much negotiation, brainstorming, and arm-wrestling, we decide to call the folder ‘Connecting from home’.
Cheers,
Francesca

Wilson is offering a free trial of the Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective (1900-1984) until October 31.
Give it a try here: www.hwwilson.com/eglretro.htm
(You’ll need to register first)
Here’s the blurb:
“This one-of-a-kind reference indexes tens of thousands of essays that might otherwise be all but inaccessible—unsung tracts in collections and anthologies back decades.”

For a Psyc 300a (abnormal psychology) assignment due next month, students need to select a disorder from a list supplied by the instructor and find two articles about it. The catch is that one article must be a case study and the other must be a treatment outcome/clinical trial.
I’ve presented to the class (Course page here) and there will be 2 drop-in sessions for them to come by and do their searches: Tuesday and Thursday, Sept 16 and 18, from 10-11 in Koerner 217.

Students in one section of PS 101 are looking for election campaign pamphlets and advertisements. For students doing older elections (1911 has come up twice so far today) browsing by date in the Globe and Mail (election date of September 21st I think) for the month before seemed to work. The editorial page (page 6) has election cartoons that they can use.
Also Maclean’s in microfilm, browsing by date, but no takers for that so far.
RBSC does have election pamphlets available, not sure how far back they go. The catalogue record says “Elections: federal, provincial or municipal”, and basically they are filed by date and level of government.

From South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy
Dear friends:
We are pleased to announce that Arundhati Roy will be on air at Vancouver’s Coop Radio (102.07) on Saturday, September 13, at 10 a.m. Mordecai Briemberg of the Red Eye Show of the Coop Radio will be interviewing her from her base in India.
The focus of the interview will be Arundhati Roy’s most recent article, “Azadi” (Freedom), published in the Outlook magazine of New Delhi, in which she provides a detailed account of the current situation in Kashmir, and the aspirations of the Kashmiri people. Here is the link to the article:
“Azadi” by Arundhati Roy
Tara

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CAP students (12 groups of 25 each) will be working on this Treasure Hunt assignment over the next couple of weeks. Julie Mitchell and I are co-teaching the sessions and we will be putting up the envelopes and taking them down after each session. We will tell the students to be considerate of others in the building but if you see too much horseplay, please let me know and we’ll revise the assignment.
Thanks everyone!
Kimberley

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Think you’ve seen it all at UBC? Well, if you’ve never been to the Pacific Museum of the Earth you are missing out on one of the coolest places on campus. That is, if you are a big nerd like me.
If you are a dinosaur fan, you can see a fantastic, and rare, Lambeousaurus (a weird omnivorous duck-billed dinosaur) skeleton just a short walk from Koerner at the Earth and Ocean Sciences — Main Building 6339 Stores Road. It’s open Mon-Fri 9-5 and admission is by donation. And if you have young kids, it is a nice family outing, not to mention a welcome break from the busy Space Centre.

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A patron was working on a document on one of the computers, and purchased a rewritable CD from the circulation desk. I tried every way I could think of to burn the file to the CD, but it kept on failing with various errors. She ending up going back to circulation and buying a floppy disk.
I assume that since we sell CDs that we are able to write to them from the library machines – could someone please recommend a method?
Thanks, Francesca

Hi-
A patron called in this afternoon wanting to know why there weren’t any subject headings attached to the record for Foreigners at Rome; Sheryl took the call and found subject headings for this title on WorldCat- and fixed the problem, but if I’d been alone on the desk, I would have sent this to the Classics subject librarian to fix. Other suggestions? We did check, and luckily it wasn’t a case of all of the subject headings in the UBC catalogue disappearing on us… just this one title.
-Christina H