Study carrels are available for reserve. Please direct students or faculty to the circulation desk.

Hi all,
An instructor from English informed me that he will be taking his class of approximately 20 students through the Reference section sometime today. They won’t need any library assistance that I know of but I thought I would give you all the heads up in case you are wondering why there is so much traffic in there today.
Tara

AMS guides/day books are located on the 2nd Floor between the two elevators.

As Genealogy is not a research discipline at UBC, it is not a top priority for desk assistance, as generally the researchers are from the public. Our research community comes first.
However, Richard will soon be putting out some older START HERE guides to genealogical research on the handout kiosks, as they do a good job of summarizing our collection. Give the researcher a copy, and basic directions on how they can find the titles, most of which are in the reference collection.
Surrey Public Library has good genealogical resources, and also an online guide on how to start research.
Depending on the circumstances, remind telephone callers and email correspondents that we have limited resources which they can check themselves. To get started, they should check with a public library near them.

Oversize books, formerly all filed after the Z call nos. on floor 6, have now, logically, been divided between floor 1 and floor 6.
Oversize A-PN are filed at the end of the PNs on floor 1. Oversize for remaining call nos. are at the end of the Zs on floor 6.
Oversize Koerner Reference titles are shelved behind the Atlas collection

Hello all,
I will be teaching a series of Back To Basics sessions in the next three months and thought I would post the schedule here as there have been a few questions at the desk regarding such sessions.
I will also be doing research skills workshops for graduate students in the late summer and early fall with dates to be announced soon.
Tara

The move is complete!!! Journals and books are now completely interfiled. New bookmarks with call number ranges by floor are coming out today.

Does anyone have a good idea of where plugs for laptops are available in the study cubicles? I know that a number of the ones on the upper floors no longer work, but I was wondering if there were a map for remaining locations of functioning plugs. If not, could we make one?

The interfiling of books and journals has been completed on Floor 4. Level 4 ended with PR 4799, with Level 5 starting with PR 4800.
So to recap
Level One – A to end of PNs
Level Four – PQs to PR4799
Level Five – PR4800 to ?
Level Six – ? to Zs
We know there is a need for new bookmarks, floor plans, etc. Once the move is complete, we will proceed with these.

Hi all
Journals and books interfiling and move will be COMPLETE on Level One as of Friday! The call numbers on Level One will be A – end of PN. PQ will start on floor 4. This represents 2/3s of the collection being moved and interfiled. Lynne hopes the interfiling and book shifting will be finished (fingers crossed) by end of April.