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.

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.

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

Now that Gustav is almost over, Hannah is just getting started, and the federal election hasn’t yet been called, you may find yourself with nothing to stress about. If so, check out the Atlas of Shakemaps for Selected Global Earthquakes http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1236 which offers maps and data on 5000 selected earthquakes.
– Tim

FYI: forwarded from Janet Teasdale at Student Development:
Find out what’s happening on campus
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UBC’s new source for campus events, UBCevents, allows users to sort
and view events by topic, type, or date and to download events to
their own calendar via iCal files.
All event planners can register to create their own calendar, share
their events, and use RSS feeds to bring this information back to
their own website. Watch the site for the regularly updated Spotlight
events and Critic’s Choice.
www.events.ubc.ca
Top Questions
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View the top 10 questions (and corresponding answers) new students
ask at: www.students.ubc.ca/newtoubc/faqs.cfm
If you have questions that are not in this list, please visit the
AskMe website at: www.vancouver.askme.ubc.ca
The newtoUBC site also addresses many of the questions that new UBC
students may have. For more information, please visit:
www.students.ubc.ca/newtoubc
Orientation Programs
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Information on orientation programs for new students is available at
the following websites:
Information on all orientation programs including GALA, AMS Firstweek,
and Imagine UBC is available at:
www.students.ubc.ca/newtoubc/orientations.cfm
Transfer and Mature Student Orientations will be held in student-
specific groups:
www.students.ubc.ca/newtoubc/orientations.cfm?page=transfermature
Parent Orientations will be offered separately for parents of commuter
students, international students, and residence students:
www.students.ubc.ca/parents/orientation.cfm
Student Success publications have been distributed around the campus:
www.students.ubc.ca/success
International Students
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For questions from international students, please refer to the
International student handbook at:
www.students.ubc.ca/international/handbook.cfm
Or contact an international student advisor.

There has been an ongoing discussion about computer access for students with disabilities which Karine Burger’s email to koedesk this weekend helped to revitalize. At the moment, patrons may be directed to the Crane Resource Centre Library located in Brock Hall or to the Disability Resource Centre . Peter has also contacted Rue who is currently investigating the issue. More information will be posted as it becomes available.
Tara

The Mita 1824 map & atlas copier, which photocopies in black & white at 18 x 24″, 11 x 17″ and 8.5 x 11″ has broken down again and is beyond repair, as parts are no longer available. If patrons request advice as to which copier(s) to use for oversized map and general photocopying, please direct them to the Xerox 3050 Engineering copier, located outside the door to room 217. This machine copies in black & white at same scale only (no reductions or enlargements) at a price of $2.10 per foot. (This price may be reduced soon.) It will not copy books as it is roll-fed. For oversized book and map copying in colour, with reduction and enlargement capability, refer patrons to the 11 x 17″ copier located in the 2nd floor copy room.
– Tim

Just to let ref. staff know that the HSS Map & Atlas Collection has very good map and atlas coverage for many African countries and for the continent as a whole. These resources may assist students in Ethnology, Geography, History, Linguistics and Political Science.
– Tim

A number of us attended Crit Stuart’s talk on “Creating User-Influenced Learning Spaces in Research Libraries” this afternoon and for my part I thought it was very inspiring. Anyone looking for a little light reading on the subject may be interested in reading this paper from Crit Stuart and Richard Meyer about the space planning experience at Georgie Tech–I think they did some fantastic things with obtaining user feedback that seem easy enough to adapt/adopt
Evaluating Physical and Virtual Space to Support Teaching and Learning
Tara