Confronted with another sad, desperate face, I called CopyRight in the SUB to see if they have scanners. It’s not listed on their website, but they do!
Sara

The students from this class have a long list of ref. section dictionaries which they must consult for their project due on February 24th. I’ve already had three questions about this. As you can imagine, these dictionaries are not on the shelves! At present they have congregated on the book truck by the copy room.
Sara

Hi all,
I had a call this afternoon about RefWorks- the patron would like to have links to the references show up on her bibliography. Some of the databases provide clean, nice links, and others produce incredibly long urls that look awful in a bibliography, sometimes the urls aren’t imported automatically and you have to enter them manually. Any suggestions? She is going to email her question to lib-refworks@interchange.ubc.ca, but she also might call back. Just a head’s up.
-Christina

Hi all,
I vaguely remember some mention of this in training, but the details are fuzzy- does the library keep any copies of old exams? (Specifically, the student was looking for econ exams) I’m assuming no, but I wanted the definitive answer.
Could someone send the student in question a quick reply? I won’t be in again until Wednesday, otherwise I’d be happy to do it. There is a sent email to him in the sent items folder of the hssd email. The email subject line is “Library information.”
Thanks,
Christina H

Hallo,
There’s a fourth year Asian Studies class looking for information on a novel The Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone.
There is an article in Tamkang review. v.36 2005
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1214513
The catalogue lists this as missing, but it is in fact in the back files, and we have asked that it not be sent for binding until the end of term.
Cheers,
Francesca

Just a heads-up, I’ve just had two (now THREE) students in looking for
Benokraitis, N. Feuds about Families; Conservative, Centrist, Liberal and Feminist Perspectives (2000) which should be in Reserves. The whole class has to read chapters from this book and write a reaction paper due next week. Someone appears to have swiped/hidden the reserve copy, and the only other copies in BC are on Vancouver Island or Langley (Kwantlen). I told them all to email their instructor. Good luck placating the masses!
Sara

Like a right foot in a sneaker, this Geography assignment surfaces from time to time. The assignment, entitled Urban Streams: History, Ecology and Memory, requires students to examine a number of maps and atlases and then prepare team reports with maps. The instructor has provided a detailed suggested methodology.
The key cartographic resources required for the assignment are displayed in the map cabinets area under signage. Students may photocopy the materials, but not check them out. Last year we experienced “hiding” of resources, which I hope will not be repeated.
As not all required materials are located in the HSS Map & Atlas area, you may get “known item location” questions at the Desk. Please feel free to suggest additional resources if you wish.
– Tim

This is a stupid question, but here goes- to look at e-books in the UBC catalogue from Books24-7, do patrons need to go through the free registration process (to create a log-on and password)? Rather than using the library barcode and pin? From looking at the FAQs, it seems (obviously) so. I had a confused patron call about it this afternoon, and unfortunately, I didn’t check the FAQs in time. So he’ll probably call back on Monday and ask how to get access to those resources all over again. Hmmph.
But at least I’ll know for next time.
-Christina H

We seem to get quite a few questions about the schedule for the Faculty of Arts lab in Koerner 216 – students wanting to know when they can get in, etc. The Faculty of Arts website has a link to the schedule here:
http://www.arts.ubc.ca/?id=276&room=Koerner216
And this second link takes you to a listing of all Arts ISIT labs with information about software availability, location, and schedules:
http://www.arts.ubc.ca/faculty-amp-staff/arts-isit/information-technology/lab-bookings.html

I had a question this afternoon on locating primary source documents from the period 1800-1909 on women and china. The assignment sounded broad (focused more on locating primary source documents than on finding out about a particular subject). She didn’t have a specific topic in mind yet. (I didn’t catch the course title and number- I’ll shoot for doing that next time!)
– We started by me letting the patron know about the Asian Library (closed today, but she could go by there tomorrow, Monday).
– The we went to the Asian Studies subject guide to find some resources to get some ideas about a topic. I mentioned that she could also check out the History subject guide, and browse the subject guides list for other possibilities. On the Asian Studies site, The Encyclopedia of Asian Studies looked like a good start for finding a topic, since it was available here in Koerner and she could physically browse it on the shelf right now.
– I showed her how to get into the ProQuest Historical database, the Times (London) database (historical) and the New York Times database (and how to do the advanced search in their historical archives). We found a few interesting hits by searching women and china (and variations of those terms) and limiting by date.
– I recommended to her, again, to check out the Asian Library if she has a chance, and speak with one of the reference librarians during their reference hours.
Any other suggestions on sources/ strategies?
Thanks,
Christina H