Hi everyone
A few students in HKIN 103, Active Health, have come in looking for help with their assignment. This course is one of the mandatory life science HKIN courses. Charlotte Beck from Woodward did a session with the students on finding information. She showed them PubMed and other life science databases. If they come to Koerner looking for help, do feel free to recommend the librarians at Woodward Library if you are not comfortable with PubMed or the research topics.

Hi all,
ENGL 320 students have been to the desk asking for audio readings of original Middle English texts. We have access to the Naxos Spoken Word Library which has Middle English readings of sections of the Canterbury Tales and maybe one or two other texts they are looking for. VPL also has a number of these recordings though mostly on cassette or LP.
Tara
Added note from Ellen: I just showed the Naxos spoken word library to two of the students, and they were really happy with this. It seems that all they are being asked to do for this part is listen to some spoken Middle English to see what it sounds like, so it doesn’t matter if it is the same as the written text they are looking for.

I don’t know if this is a large group assignment, but in case it is, a student came in looking for the “Bar Ilan” cd-rom. It’s actually called the Responsa Project, and the CD-ROM is in the room that is the backside of K266. It can only be used on one workstation (noted on the CD rom list) in that room.

As the librarian has misplaced the student’s contact information…an Econ. 336 student is researching mining in the 1890s for BC, using the BC Sessional Papers. He will be coming in to see me next week.
HOWEVER, on the odd chance I’m not available, there is a website that can help him:
Ministry of Energy…Publications. Annual reports, bulletins, etc.
Please ask him to contact me.
Patrick.

I’ve put a book on 1-day course reserve that will help students looking for archaeological site reports in Mesoamerica – especially those who are doing Chichen Itza and finding that all the main site reports are signed out.
It’s called “The Carnegie Maya: The Carnegie Institution of Washington Maya Research Program, 1913–1957“, and it reprints “all the archaeological, ethnographic, linguistic, and historical investigations in the Maya region of southern Mexico and northern Central America between 1914 and 1957”.
It also includes a CD-ROM.
Check the detailed Table of Contents at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005037446.html to see if the student is lucky enough to have the structure they are researching included in this volume. Scroll down to section 38 for Chichen Itza.

If a student comes in looking for digital census maps (geospatial data)–that they can analyze using ARCView software, they are available on the Data Services pages:
http://data.library.ubc.ca/java/jsp/database/production/search.jsp.
Anyone inquiring about this stuff probably knows how to use it. If not, refer to Mary or Paul.
Patrick.

A number of students have been by the desk in past weeks looking for archaeological site reports for two classes, ANTH 232 (Ancient Latin America) and ANTH 203 (Methods of Anthropological Archaeology).
Here are some tips. Subject headings for site reports take 3 forms:
Excavations (Archaeology) — [location]
for example: Excavations (Archaeology) — Peru
If you know the site name, use that:
Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico)

Or you can use the name of the people, followed by “Antiquities”:
Mayas – Antiquities.
Many records will have two or three of these headings:
-Excavations (Archaeology) – Mexico – San Juan Teotihuacán.
-Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico)
-Mayas – Antiquities.
A great starting point is the “Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures : the civilizations of Mexico and Central America“, available online. Each entry has an annotated bibliography. If you look up an archaeological site, the bibliography will often tell you which is the key or definitive archaeological site report.

The Survivors Guide to Sessional Papers of Canada 1867- 1925 currently gives the wrong location for the Index/ Journals of the House of Commons. [Cumulative indexes]
J 103.C2 as GP I&A.They are on the HSS office shelves. The handout will be corrected next week. Feel free to refer students to govpubs folks. There is also the online web guide to the Sessional Papers that Patrick and I did at http://toby.library.ubc.ca/webpage/webpage.cfm?id=536 which gives a bit more detail and picture examples of how to find Sessional Papers.
There are students looking for pre-confederation sessional papers as well.They seem to need material from the 1840s. For British material, refer them to the Irish University Press series of British parliamentary papers. Colonies: Canada. FC470 .I74 1968 on floor 1.
The Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada on microfilm, AW 1 R5143 contain sessional papers from 1841(?) -1859. The papers are in the Appendices at the end of each session. The table of contents is easily browseable, giving the location on the reels by letter. The students can do this fairly easily once shown.
Patrick.

This course is offered through Corpus Christi College. The prof has given a choice of 20 topics covering family, religion, vikings and visigoths, roles of women, philosophy and more. Interdisciplinary exponential.
A copy of the assignment is in the reference binder, and is due Nov. 28th. The prof has suggested various paths for research (including Historical Abstracts, which doesn’t cover the medieval period).
My first attempt with a student was not a happy one. Perhaps you specialists out there can cobble together some appropriate sources? (the list could be long…).
I have given KB a copy of the assignment as well. Perhaps he can mitigate this somewhat.
This message is from Patrick, not Ellen.

The ENGL 112 class taught by Sarah Parry will be working on a research essay assignment with a Works Cited. Students are being asked to provide 5 peer-reviewed scholarly sources that are relevant to a topic based on pre-assigned readings. Materials from the bibliographies of assigned readings are not accepted. A copy of the assignment can be found in the Course Assignments binder at the Reference Desk.
Topic A: Ethnic Studies
Possible search terms: Try the following keyword search:
Academic Search Premier or Sociological Abstracts: (immigrant women or women immigrants) and (labour market or employment) plus whatever occupation or country the students have chosen to research. “Ethnic economy” can be used with some success.
NB: Limit to Peer-Reviewed Sources
Contemporary Women’s Issues: keyword (immigrant) and select Workplace from the Subject Area drop down menu. *You can also select Geographic region if the student has selected a national context.
Topic B: Adolescent Studies
In Academic Search Premier, AnthroSource, Sociological Abstracts: A useful search is friendship and (school or education) and sociability or a search with “friendship” “adolescence” and “education” or “high school”. The instructor has suggested that students may want to research “esl” and “friendship” and read professional ESL journals. UBC holds a few ESL journals.

Topic C: Labour Studies

Academic Search Premier, Web of Science
Suggested searches: “trade unions and (globalization or coalitions)” or “union and minorities” or “unions and environmentalism” depending on the students’ topic of choice.
NB: The instructor has indicated that some students may choose to look at teachers/nurses and unions, although this is a much harder topic. She has suggested that students may need to contact her for recommended sources.
Topic D: Gender Studies
Academic Search Premier, Sociological Abstracts, Contemporary Women’s Issues:
Useful keywords are “gender, language, discourse studies” and whatever profession students are investigating such as “law, medicine, broadcasting (specify tv, radio, etc.) The term ‘sociolinguistics’ is also be a useful search term.