Students can also use material listed under “OTHER CATALOGUES”, then choose Reading Rooms/Bibliographies and do a search “october crisis”. There is both primary and secondary material listed there

On Jan 31st, from 4pm-7:30pm EST, the Can’n govt website will be down for maintenance

Paul contacted systems regarding Celia’s question about accessing websites/licensed resources from the guest access stations and got the following info…
Here is some clarification on access restrictions from Heman in Systems:
Whether a site should be blocked at our guest stations are determined by a combination of 3 rules:
Rule #1: Explicitly or implicitly trusted site are given access
Example: “ubc.ca” is explicitly trusted. Which means any site that ends
with “ubc.ca” will be allowed access, including “parking.ubc.ca”
Rule #2: Sites linked from an implicitly trusted site are also given access
“library.ubc.ca” is implicitly trusted, which means if “library.ubc.ca” website
contained a link to a third-party site, that third-party site will also be trusted;
NOTE: this third-party is only explicitly trusted, in other words, links from this
third-party site will be blocked.
Rule #3: Sites that appeared on our “blacklist” will always be blocked
Example: Google, Hotmail: since they are on our “blacklist”, access will be
blocked even if there is a link from “library.ubc.ca” to it.
Most of the time, problem occurs when a site that we otherwise trusted uses another web hosting company to host their content. For example we trust “parking.ubc.ca”, however they use a company called “eigendev.com” to process their credit card transactions, so, unless we manually add “eigendev.com” into our list of explicitly trusted sites, our guests will have trouble paying their parking fees: things will fail halfway thru their credit card transaction.
Similarly, problem occurs when our database provider passes control to a different website when delivering their contents, example if “naxosmusiclibrary.com” hosts their stuff in “naxos.com”, their content will be blocked unless [1] music library also has a link to “naxos.com”, or [2] we manually add “naxos.com” to our list of trusted sites.
Since we are short staffed, we don’t want to be maintaining these trusts and blacklists all the time. If patrons have problems accessing our more *popular* journals or databases, let us know, and we will attempt to trace out the third-party site and add them to our trusted list; otherwise the unauthenticated guest workstations are provided “as is”, and guests are encouraged to register for an ID/password if they want to do any serious research etc.

Hi-
On the publication stand and on the ref desk (a couple, just for a few days, ok?) are flyers for the Arts Student Workshop Series. Please familiarize yourself with these workshops and refer students to them as you think appropriate. We’re hoping to attract many more students this term: it’s important info plus the Faculty of Arts is underwriting part of the cost.
You’ll notice that verso the Library offerings is a schedule from Arts ISIT. They’re our partners for part of this and two workshops presented by library staff in the Arts ISIT lab appear on both schedules.
Registration for all the workshops on the Library side is through the UBC Library events calendar, and they are all members of the “undergrad” series. No registration is required for the Arts ISIT workshops.
Questions, suggestions always welcome.
Sheryl

Hi all,
We’ve (or at least I”ve) got a puzzle. A patron wanted to access a title from the above online collection. He was using one of the guest access workstations, which I thought would allow him access to our online resources while here in the library. He was able to bring up the specific title and conduct a search for keywords, but then unable to bring up any of the page images. It seems like access to the content/images was blocked. I suggested he get a guest ID from upstairs and try that. It worked!
I guess my question is: how do we know which resources are restricted? Is it a case by case thing? I thought the catalogue and all online resources could be accessed by guests on one of the three guest stations….
Thanks.
Celia

Hi all,
Can someone remind me what the procedure is for reporting problems with indexes and databases? A student called this afternoon because she was unable to access the OECD Education Database from home–it didn’t work from the ref desk either. So far I’ve just been filling out the eResources comments/suggestions page when things like this come up. Is there anything else I can suggest for the student when indexes or ejournals don’t cooperate?
Karine

Biology 140 students have started coming to the desk looking for help with the microform collection. They are looking for information on specific microplankton (?) but I have only found relevant information when searching under the family name “copepod”. Two books of note in the Woodward Reserve collection: The Biology of a Marine Copepod, and Copepod Evolution.

The LIBR 503 class has an assignment due Tuesday that contains the following questions:
What is the address of an association called the Beer Can Collectors of America? When was it founded? How many members does it have? How many Canadian chapters are there?
The information can be found in the Encyclopedia of Associations, AS22. E5. There is an index–use the word “beer.”

It may be all over by now, but we had a steady stream of students looking for Place Names of British Columbia last week under various incorrect versions of the title (BC Place names, etc.), author names (Aldridge, Agrik: it’s Akrigg), and also the very general question, “How can I find out what this word means?”

You probably all know this already, but issn 0022-2445 seems to be known as both Journal of Marriage and the Family and Journal of Marriage and Family. Either title works in our catalogue, journal/ejournal search, etc. so there should be no problem, but a bunch of social work students have an assignment that requires using it. When they try to connect from home, the presence/absence of the “the” looms large, but it’s really just a routine VPN/Proxy thing.
Sheryl