Today in Gov pubs we loked at RG-10 files (RG =”Record Group”) from the Dept. of Indian Affairs. RG-10 contains records relating to the Indian peoples of British Columbia including School files.
The index is available online through ArchiviaNet
There are other RG files microforms which are listed on the Journals and Microform Collections page under “National Archives material on microfilm“, an inventory of UBC library holdings. The entry for RG-10 Archival records links to a description of Collection, reel numbers and guides.

If you’ve been missing Clayton’s loud typing, here’s why he’s no longer a fixture at our computers.
Sheryl

Inspiration for a drill team…

‘Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America’ takes prize for oddest book title

The move is complete!!! Journals and books are now completely interfiled. New bookmarks with call number ranges by floor are coming out today.

Publication of these reports from Cambridge University Press is pending June 2007

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EuroDocs (http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu) is a new portal to European primary source documents in facsimile, transcription, or English translation. This (gated) wiki links to freely available European primary historical documents on key historical happenings, sorted by country, and arranged chronologically.
If you’re interested in contributing, request a password through eurodocs@byu.edu.

Elim Wong over at the Law Library has created a wonderful new infopage for LexisNexis Academic – Legal Research at http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1317. LexisNexis Academic Legal Research has a number of different search forms for each type of information (patents, regulations, legal news, directories, etc), and these have all been linked directly off the information page, along with a description of types of materials.
Some of the search screens we might use in HSS include:

Contains population information in 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government (excluding that of Hong Kong S.A.R., Macao S.A.R. and Taiwan Province), and some cities, for example, population migration status, marital status, educational level and employment status, etc. All tables are in Excel. 3 discs.
Unfortunately, the designated cd rom workstation does not have current enough Windows to operate the discs. They are filed in the CD rom cabinet by title, with a note indicating this. They are easy enough to load on newer machines.
Patrick.

Does anyone have a good idea of where plugs for laptops are available in the study cubicles? I know that a number of the ones on the upper floors no longer work, but I was wondering if there were a map for remaining locations of functioning plugs. If not, could we make one?