Jan Wallace sent out this reminder of the group study space available in the Barber Learning Centre, some bookable, some “drop in when no classes are on”. Keep reading to the end of the message for a review of Barber’s great hours during exams, April 14-28. Wow!
North Wing:
There are 5 rooms available for booking by groups of 3 or more to
work on group projects. These rooms are located along the east side
of levels 3 and 4. An additional room is in the northwest corner of
level 3.
Each room is equipped with 2 tables and 8 chairs, a white board,
electrical outlets and wireless. Whiteboard markers can be requested
from the Circulation Desk on level 2.
Guidelines for Group Project Rooms:
* A group may book a maximum of 2 hours per day, twice a week
* If you are more than 10 minutes late you lose your booking
* Reservations are made in person at the reference desk on level 3
* Rooms can be reserved 2- 3 weeks in advance
South Wing:
* Most classrooms, seminar and meeting rooms, especially on Level
One, are unlocked and may be used when no class is in progress.
This is in keeping with classroom practice throughout campus.
* Other small meeting rooms are available on Level Two (behind
Ike’s Café)
* A silent study room seating 50 people is on Level Four (Musqueam
Room, Room 455)
* Considerable informal study space is scattered throughout the
building, especially on Levels Three and Four
The IBLC’s central core (excluding the north wing and parts of the
south wing) will remain open for extended hours during exams, April
14-28:
Monday – Friday:
7am – 1am
Saturday:
10am – 1am
Sunday:
12noon – 1am

Good news on the eresources front. As of today, we have access to a number of new and upgraded online resources.
In the EBSCOhost line, we now have access to the following:

“The Map Room is a blog that points to maps, map collections, map-related resources, and material about maps on the web. Anything that fits under that rubric, from medieval mappæ mundi to satellite imagery, and from topo maps to Tolkien, is fair game.
Launched in March 2003, The Map Room is aimed at a broad audience. While GIS professionals and cartographers seem to enjoy reading it, it’s meant to be accessible to anyone with nothing more than an interest in maps.”
I particularly enjoyed finding the section on Imaginary Places when I was working on a recent reference question.
See also the link to Strange Maps, where you can find a map of the 1969 moon landingsite or have a look at the abandoned proposal (thankfully) to rename star constellations with more recognizable figures such as The Tyrants–featuring Hitler, Attila the Hun, and Mussolini.
Enjoy!
Tara

The citation style questions keep a’comin’ so I thought I would post this useful link to Diana Hacker’s Research and Documentation site I know a number of us already use it but it’s always nice to have a link at one’s finger tips. If you aren’t familiar with the site, it has a significant number of citation examples as well as sample papers with formatting details. In my experience, students have always been very happy to learn of it.
Tara

Brilliant librarian reference from the Star Trek cartoon Very short. Come on. You KNOW you want to watch it.

From David Winter:
Hello
CISTI Orders should be working properly now. Please let me know if users continue to have problems accessing the order form.
Due to changes in the CISTI servers, we are now using IP authentication to authenticate our users. This means remote users will need to establish a VPN connection before they can use CISTI Orders. Please continue to ask users to use the CISTI Order page as we are still using ezproxy to block community cardholders from ordering CISTI material.
If you have any questions, please contact me.
Thanks David

Hi everyone
The students in LIBR 530, Advanced Reference, have created a wonderful collection of online guides to various subject areas. They are worth taking a look at, and if you can think of ways to use them or link to them beyond posting here, do let me know. You need a password to view these, and it is reference.
Medieval European History
Philosophy of Science
Federalism
Jazz Studies
Canadian History
Film Theory
Near Eastern Archaeology
Canadian Literature
Bivalve Molluscan Aquaculture
African American Studies
Egyptology
Canadian Politics
Victorian English Literature
Climatology
Spanish History
Quebec History
Nutrition Science

Hi all,
Finding UBC Calendar Archives has come up at the desk a few times of late and I thought I would post a shortcut here:
Here is the link to the microform entry in the catalogue for the UBC Calendar or you can simply direct patrons to the following call number: AW1 .R7544
Print copies are available in the ASRS or Law Special Collections: LE3 .B8
Online copies from the present to 1999 are available online from the Student Services UBC Calendar Archive
A brief version of the above information is also penciled into the HSS Ref Desk manual.
Tara

ProQuest has created a handy search widget for their databases that you can imbed right in your subject guides or other webpages. Here’s how it looks (this one links to PQ Dissertations and Theses). Go on, give it a try:

function proQuestSearchGo(){
var url=”http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=305&FT=1&DBId=15119&SQ=”;
var searchInputEl = document.getElementById(“proQuestSearchInput”);
document.location=url + encodeURIComponent(searchInputEl.value);
}

function handleKeyPress(e,form){
var key=e.keyCode || e.which;
if (key==13){
proQuestSearchGo();
}
}

 

Enter your search terms:

Create your own widget here (it’s quick and easy!):
http://www.proquest.com/products_pq/proquest/widgets/search.shtml
I’ve added the widget to the Anthropology Subject Guide, in the section on theses and dissertations.

The tiny pencils at the reference desk have been joined by a donation of pens from the Sheryl Adam and Richard Rosenberg pen collection. Ancient conferences, bankrupt vendors, they’re all there, and free to a good home.