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

Now interfiled to HD7391.

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.

The circ staff doing the interfiling of journals and books have moved quite a few journal titles in the Ps-Zs to the upper floors of Koerner. I have put the list of journal titles that have been moved in the “Koerner Floor Plans” blue binder at the Reference Desk. As well, I have included extra copies of the current week’s floor plan for level one. I will put weekly updates in this binder.
I have also put copies at the Journals/Microform desk.
So if a patron can’t find a journal downstairs in the swing space, check the lists to see if it has been moved upstairs.

A history student came in yesterday looking for primary sources for the October Crisis – in particular Trudeau and his “just watch me” comment to the media. CBC has a fabulous online archives – which goes back to at least the 1930s – of archival radio and tv broadcasts. You can watch Tommy Douglas talking on TV about the importance of government-funded health care, or Trudeau talking to reporters during the October Crisis. Fabulous primary sources. The focus is interviews, news and current affairs programs to which CBC holds or has obtained copyright. CBC is currently negotiating Internet rights with many different organizations, including trade unions, artists and writers, so sadly, no Mr Dressup.

Hi all
In case you hadn’t noticed this recent change…
The blue navigation bar “EJOURNALS” has changed to “JOURNALS”. There is also a search box on the page for a journal catalogue search for those print titles that don’t show up from the ejournal search box, but which we do have in print.
Try “Stadion” or “Reference Services Review” in both search options to see what I mean if this is not clear.

Journals and books interfiled to HC79 P6 L55 as of Friday January 19th.

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

I thought it might be useful for us to post notes on Mary’s weekly gov pubs session for GAAs and those who couldn’t make the session, and also to serve as a rudimentary knowledge base of topics we’ve covered. We could add an entry post-session, and then anyone can edit or comment as necessary. (Thanks, Mary, for agreeing to this!)
In today’s session, we looked at the new interface for the World Bank’s World Development Indicators Online (WDI). WDI has statistical data for over 550 development indicators, and time series data from 1960- for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Mary notes that we continue to carry the WDI print volumes as they have a substantial amount of extra material NOT found in the online source, such as large bibliographies and extra resources.

WHEN SHOULD I USE THIS RESOURCE?
This is the first place to look for stats on developing countries. Recently, they have started adding social statistics and statistics on social projects.
The new interface is quite clear and easy to navigate. Users are presented with a series of screens from which to make their selections on three variables: Country; series; and time. A search box is also available on each screen to search for variables.
We selected 4 countries:(Canada, Cuba, China, and the US); searched for “vehicles” to retrieve two series on “Vehicles per 1,000 people”and “Vehicles per km of road”; and selected a range of years (1986-2006).
The table that is generated is manipulable; you can view and resort the data in a number of different ways (all series for a single country; a single series for all countries, etc.) The data can be presented in table or chart format or even a lovely colour map! To display the map, you need to select all countries for the series and dates.
In the new WDI interface, notes on data sources can be found by clicking the link for that entry to display the notes (rather than going to a separate “notes” section to view all notes at once.
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PLEASE leave comments on anything I missed (or misinterpreted!). As we add more, you’ll be able to browse topics from earlier sessions by clicking the “Gov pubs sessions” category in the left hand menu.

Several students from Family Studies have been approaching the reference desk looking for information on theories of explanation, specifically to look at what an explanation is from various philosophical standpoints, like positivsim, for example.
Patrick suggested using the Philosopher’s Index where there are many articles related to this topic. Search for theories/theory of explanation.
There is also a good overview article online via the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/explanat.htm) that includes a short bibliography.
This article also mentions The Scientific Image by Bas van Fraassen which we have in Koerner at Q175 .V335 1980, which some students might want to check out.