Google office in Zurich
Tara

MEMORY and NARRATIVE: A part of the Vancouver Memory Festival
A talk and reading by David Albahari
Monday, May 12,
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
SFU Vancouver at Harbour Centre
515 W Hastings St., Vancouver
Admission free: however reservations are required
To reserve a seat, please contact: cstudies@sfu.ca or 778.782.5100
Tara

Big news in book nerd world–from the NYT
Sued by Harry Potter’s Creator, Lexicographer Breaks Down on the Stand
Tara
PS It has to do with copyright infringement and a librarian so, technically, it’s work.

EBSCO recently announced the launch of GreenFILE, a new free interdisciplinary database on the environment. You can access it from the indexes and databases list:

http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1398
Here’s the blurb:
GreenFILE, is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. GreenFILE’s initial release includes abstracts and indexes for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage from to volume 1, issue 1 to present for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.

At 8:00pm EDT on Friday, April 11, all DLPS collections will be unavailable while database servers are upgraded. The estimated outage time is 4 hours.
Affected sites and collections include the following (and we don’t subscribe to all of them)
* ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
* American Verse Project
* Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
* British Women Romantic Poets
* DLPS Usage Statistics
* Early English Books Online
* Encoded Text Services
* Humanities Text Initiative
* HRAF Archaeology and Ethnography
* Image Services
* LLMC-Digital Collections
* Making of America
* The Medieval Review
* Middle English Compendium (MEC)
* OAIster
* Old English Corpus (OEC)
* Pictures of Record
* Radical Scatters (Emily Dickinson)
* The United States and its Territories
* UM Historical Math Collection
* William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Excerpt: “Some years ago, I was awakened early one morning by a phone call from a friend. She had just broken up with a boyfriend she still loved and was desperate to justify her decision. “Can you believe it!” she shouted into the phone. “He hadn’t even heard of Pushkin!” Read the whole article from the New York Times: It’s Not You, It’s Your Books ”
A sobering vision of romance.
T.

If you’ve had a chance to use JSTOR today, you may have noticed something different. As of April 4, JSTOR has a new interface. The visual appearance is vastly improved, and the functionality enhanced by a number of new features:

Unbelievable! U.S. Funded Health Search Engine Blocks ‘Abortion’
T.

Students in Geography 270 will be coming in until April 10 to ask for “ALR” maps. These are detailed maps of the GVRD’s Agricultural Land Reserve boundaries for 1974 and 1981. I have placed all relevant maps on top of the map cabinets under appropriate signage. Students are welcome to photocopy these maps, but may not sign them out. Their professor will make arrangements with me for oversized scanning if it proves necessary.
Feel free to refer students to me if necessary.
Tim

There’s origami.kites and fans, and then when you let a real artist at it, there’s this.
Spotted on BoingBoing.