UBC Library is currently trialling the database Lexicons of Early Modern English.
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods (1480-1702).

The trial ends January 10, 2007.

We now have electronic access to the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics*, part of the Oxford Reference Online collection.
The Encyclopedia encompasses the full range of topics in linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics.
There are a couple of neat tools in the Oxford Reference Online collection worth pointing out to patrons:

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* If patrons prefer the print book version of the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, we also have the four-volume set in the Reference section at call number P29 .I58 2003.

The books and journals interfiling reached call number CD3645 on Friday Nov 24.

Hello all
A lot of students at the Ref Desk and in classes mention they can’t get the VPN or proxy to work. There is a third option that has been available for a few months, and the link to the information has been made more accessible from the Connecting from Home page. It is the ‘rewriting proxy’ which requires logging in with campus-wide login and pin, and then voila, you have access to databases, ejournals, and elink from off-campus. It is a slower connection than the VPN or proxy, so the VPN/proxy are still the best options, but for those that – for whatever reason – can’t use the VPN or proxy, the rewriting proxy provides very easy access.

The books and journals have been interfiled to BM316 as of Friday November 17th. The pace may slow down a bit now with increased demands on shelvers time to do regular shelving. Note also, more journals have been moved to swing space so arrangement of journals is a little confusing there. Maps available at the Ref and Journals Desks.

From the UBC Sustainability Office:
You can drop off your batteries in the new Special Items Recycling unit in the SUB. The unit is located at the North basement entrance of the SUB and was launched by Waste Management last month to kick off Waste Reduction Week and in conjunction with the UBC Sustainaibility Fair. Plastic bags, non-rechargeable batteries, rechargeable batteries as well as small e-waste items (e.g. CDs, DVDs, videos, cell phones, computer mouses, etc.) are all being collected there for recycling.
Brigid MacAulay
Coordinator, Programs & Administration
UBC Sustainability Office
2329 West Mall, Rm 75
604-827-5641
brigid.macaulay@ubc.ca

GAAs expressed interest in this, so am posting for all.
There are field codes that allow you to search in specific fields while using the Keyword Boolean search option.
nkey – keyword searching in the author field
tkey – keyword searching in the title field
skey – keyword searching in the subject field
seri – keyword searching in the series field
jkey – keyword searching in the title field for journals only
You can do nested searches using these codes, for example
(skey encyclop? or skey dictionar?) and tkey “british columbia”
or
nkey gorman and (skey librar? or skey archiv?) and tkey lib?
or very useful to find titles in series such as…
(seri comparat? and seri polic?) and skey environment?

Hi all – as of Friday Nov 10th, the book move reached call number BF458.

Hi all,
I’m doing an instruction session called “Back to Basics: Library Skills for Returning Students” on Thursday, Nov. 16th from 12-2pm and another on Thursday January 18th 12-2pm in Koerner 217. If you come across anyone who might need or be interested in this class, please direct them to the registration page http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=3278. Thanks, Tara.

History of Psychology students are working on an assignment where they need to find biographical information on a prominent psychologist. I took them to their subject page and showed them the encyclopedia of psychology online which has biographical essays as well as bibliographies for further research.