Coming Soon–the Generation D.I.Y Film Festival at VanCity Theatres. Check out titles and showtimes here
Tara

Want to travel this summer but can’t afford gasoline or fuel surcharges? Travel vicariously @ www.schmap.com
– Tim

For those of you who are interested, I have finally added a link to the titles from the 2008 BCLA presentation “Ain’t on the Globe and Mail Bestsellers List“. I have ordered a number of the titles mentioned here, or forwarded them to the appropriate bibliographers. A number of these titles are also available through VPL and ILL. A copy of the list will also be on my door for the next week or so. Happy browsing!
Tara

Please be advised that one of our two Voyager OPAC servers went down unexpectedly last night.
One OPAC server is still operational and should provide Voyager access – however, there is a chance that some Library users may experience difficulty searching the catalogue or checking ‘My Account’.
—
Edward Vasquez
UBC Library Information Systems & Technology The University of British Columbia
ph:604.822.4981 fax:604.822.3201

I managed to download Google Notebook and I think it is going to prove a very popular tool for students. The widget allows you to:
* Clip and collect information as you surf the web.
* Stay in your browser window.
* Organize your notes from the web page you’re on.
Try it out or have a look at the video if you’re curious.
Happy organized web surfing!
Tara

Google office in Zurich
Tara

MEMORY and NARRATIVE: A part of the Vancouver Memory Festival
A talk and reading by David Albahari
Monday, May 12,
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
SFU Vancouver at Harbour Centre
515 W Hastings St., Vancouver
Admission free: however reservations are required
To reserve a seat, please contact: cstudies@sfu.ca or 778.782.5100
Tara

Big news in book nerd world–from the NYT
Sued by Harry Potter’s Creator, Lexicographer Breaks Down on the Stand
Tara
PS It has to do with copyright infringement and a librarian so, technically, it’s work.

EBSCO recently announced the launch of GreenFILE, a new free interdisciplinary database on the environment. You can access it from the indexes and databases list:

http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1398
Here’s the blurb:
GreenFILE, is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. GreenFILE’s initial release includes abstracts and indexes for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage from to volume 1, issue 1 to present for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.

At 8:00pm EDT on Friday, April 11, all DLPS collections will be unavailable while database servers are upgraded. The estimated outage time is 4 hours.
Affected sites and collections include the following (and we don’t subscribe to all of them)
* ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
* American Verse Project
* Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
* British Women Romantic Poets
* DLPS Usage Statistics
* Early English Books Online
* Encoded Text Services
* Humanities Text Initiative
* HRAF Archaeology and Ethnography
* Image Services
* LLMC-Digital Collections
* Making of America
* The Medieval Review
* Middle English Compendium (MEC)
* OAIster
* Old English Corpus (OEC)
* Pictures of Record
* Radical Scatters (Emily Dickinson)
* The United States and its Territories
* UM Historical Math Collection
* William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience