The English 112 assignment from May 24th is back. See Tara’s blog entry for that date under “Assignments” for ideas. The last topic – where they are writing about ‘vocal authority’, I found the term ‘sociolinguistics’ to also be a useful search term.

On Thursday, a small group Humanities 101 students and their teaching assistants will be using 217 from 5:30-6:30 to show the students how to sign on to email, one at a time, no projector necessary. Other students can stay in the lab, no problem.
Just an FYI, don’t be alarmed if you see a (smallish) bunch of folks heading for 217. The lead TA is Stephanie.
Sheryl

Students in Family Studies 323 and 324 have a literature review due on November 9. I have set up a drop in session for this Wednesday October 31 from 12.00-2.00 in Koerner 217, so feel free to encourage students to drop by.
There is also a course page, available here:
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2131
Thanks,
Lindsay
UPDATE:
About 6 students came to the drop in session on October 31 and most of them were asking how to write a literature review. I showed them the links on the FAQs for Graduate Student Researchers page but, for both classes, they have quite specific instructions from the their instructor about how to format their review, so I have referred them back to the professor for those types of questions.

Confusion no more! Richard has graciously demonstrated how to load the fancy copy room stapler which has left a number of us scratching our heads. Here are some step by step instructions:
1. Get the Bostitch B8 staples from the Journals/Microforms desk drawer (Make sure they are the B8 staples, as the regular ones won’t work.)
2. Mosey to the copy room and confront the empty stapler, letting it know who’s boss.
3. Pull out the black tab at the back of the stapler.
4. Drop the staples into the gap making sure that the sides of the staples fit into the grooves.
5. Push the black tab back in and test the stapler to make sure its working.
6. Saunter back to your desk, triumphant.
Any questions? Ask Richard, the stapler wrangler.
Tara

The Biology 140 assignment has started! Students are coming to the desk looking for AW5… theses and dissertations on creatures like Tigriopus Californicus. Although they might want to look at the reference lists in the dissertations as a resource, the best place for them to be is in Woodward Library where they have all the resources for this assignment of over 1000 students. Sally also has a course page for the assignment which includes an online tutorial.

A patron phoned from home this afternoon (Sunday) to ask about using MetaLib from home. He was connected via VPN, but wasn’t able to use MetaLib without being prompted for a password. He also said there were lock icons next to the links.
I suggested accessing certain indexes and databases individually, which did work. I suggested some interdisciplinary databases based on his paper topic.
Anyone know of any problems using MetaLib from home?
~brie

The Oxford Scholarship Online collection of books in Poli Sci, Religion, Philosophy, and Econ are not yet listed in the library catalogue. If you see an Oxford University Press title in our collection, it is worth checking out this resource (from the Indexes and Databases) to see if we have the book online.
And I have just discovered that if you are using GoogleScholar and find a reference to a book in this collection, you can access it from GS this way:
1. Click on the hyperlinked title
2. In GoogleBooks, look for the link on the right hand side to the publisher, Oxford University Press
3. On the OUP site, there will be a link to OSO if the title is available in that collection. It is on the upper right-hand side.
4. And voila, you are reading the book online!

From Oct. 10 through early Nov. 120 students in Geography 210 will be completing part of a research assignment on lost streams of the Lower Mainland in the Map & Atlas area. I have placed the map and atlas materials they require on top of the map cabinets with appropriate signage. You may get reference questions, since not everything they require is here in Koerner. Feel free to help them or direct them to me as required. Please do not authorize special loans for the required materials; they must do the assignment here. Photocopying is OK.
– Tim

Women’s Studies 100 students may come to the desk asking for help with researching a women’s group or community organization. They have a paper due on October 11 for which they have to select a women’s group of community organization which is working for equality and social justice for women, and critically assess the group’s activities and priorities.
They should already have chosen a group as they are expected to visit them, but just in case they are looking for ideas, this global directory of women’s organizations, includes listings from BC:
http://www.distel.ca/womlist/womlist.html
The Red Book Online also includes listings. Try a search for “women” in the subject field:
http://www2.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/DBs/Redbook/htmlPgs/search/rbSearch.html
Newspaper articles will likely be the best source of information, particularly Canadian Newsstand. There may also be information in other Canadian sources, such as CBCA Complete.
Lindsay

The annual UBC Botanical Gardens Apple Festival will take place Saturday, October 13th and Sunday, October 14th from 11am-4pm. For more information, please visit the AppleFest site.