FYI: forwarded from Janet Teasdale at Student Development:
Find out what’s happening on campus
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UBC’s new source for campus events, UBCevents, allows users to sort
and view events by topic, type, or date and to download events to
their own calendar via iCal files.
All event planners can register to create their own calendar, share
their events, and use RSS feeds to bring this information back to
their own website. Watch the site for the regularly updated Spotlight
events and Critic’s Choice.
www.events.ubc.ca
Top Questions
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View the top 10 questions (and corresponding answers) new students
ask at: www.students.ubc.ca/newtoubc/faqs.cfm
If you have questions that are not in this list, please visit the
AskMe website at: www.vancouver.askme.ubc.ca
The newtoUBC site also addresses many of the questions that new UBC
students may have. For more information, please visit:
www.students.ubc.ca/newtoubc
Orientation Programs
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Information on orientation programs for new students is available at
the following websites:
Information on all orientation programs including GALA, AMS Firstweek,
and Imagine UBC is available at:
www.students.ubc.ca/newtoubc/orientations.cfm
Transfer and Mature Student Orientations will be held in student-
specific groups:
www.students.ubc.ca/newtoubc/orientations.cfm?page=transfermature
Parent Orientations will be offered separately for parents of commuter
students, international students, and residence students:
www.students.ubc.ca/parents/orientation.cfm
Student Success publications have been distributed around the campus:
www.students.ubc.ca/success
International Students
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For questions from international students, please refer to the
International student handbook at:
www.students.ubc.ca/international/handbook.cfm
Or contact an international student advisor.

There has been an ongoing discussion about computer access for students with disabilities which Karine Burger’s email to koedesk this weekend helped to revitalize. At the moment, patrons may be directed to the Crane Resource Centre Library located in Brock Hall or to the Disability Resource Centre . Peter has also contacted Rue who is currently investigating the issue. More information will be posted as it becomes available.
Tara

The Mita 1824 map & atlas copier, which photocopies in black & white at 18 x 24″, 11 x 17″ and 8.5 x 11″ has broken down again and is beyond repair, as parts are no longer available. If patrons request advice as to which copier(s) to use for oversized map and general photocopying, please direct them to the Xerox 3050 Engineering copier, located outside the door to room 217. This machine copies in black & white at same scale only (no reductions or enlargements) at a price of $2.10 per foot. (This price may be reduced soon.) It will not copy books as it is roll-fed. For oversized book and map copying in colour, with reduction and enlargement capability, refer patrons to the 11 x 17″ copier located in the 2nd floor copy room.
– Tim

Joshua Klein says so here

As promised here’s the link to the digital version of the Guide to Government Publications Sources that we gave you in training week: Download file
and here’s the question and answer key. Download file
Shawnna/Susan

Crows recognize, and remember, human faces
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on 8/26/08
Yoder says: “University of Washington scientists have shown that crows recognize individual human faces, and hold grudges against people who have been mean to them in the past.”
To test the birds’ recognition of faces separately from that of clothing, gait and other individual human characteristics, Dr. Marzluff and two students wore rubber masks. He designated a caveman mask as “dangerous” and, in a deliberate gesture of civic generosity, a Dick Cheney mask as “neutral.” Researchers in the dangerous mask then trapped and banded seven crows on the university’s campus in Seattle.
In the months that followed, the researchers and volunteers donned the masks on campus, this time walking prescribed routes and not bothering crows.
The crows had not forgotten. They scolded people in the dangerous mask significantly more than they did before they were trapped, even when the mask was disguised with a hat or worn upside down. The neutral mask provoked little reaction.
Friend or Foe? Crows Never Forget a Face, It Seems (New York Times)

Just to let ref. staff know that the HSS Map & Atlas Collection has very good map and atlas coverage for many African countries and for the continent as a whole. These resources may assist students in Ethnology, Geography, History, Linguistics and Political Science.
– Tim

Hi all,
Here’s the latest collection of websites added to GovInfo. They’ve been briefly annotated and organized into categories so you can browse the entire document or just go to the section you are interested in. **Note, somehow some unauthorized spaces have crept into the link to the first featured site – Govt of India, making it unclickable and non-copy & pastable. Here’s the address without spaces if you are interested: Government of India. Here’s the link to the entire newsletter: GovInfo Newsletter July/August –
Shawnna

Now you can eat without moving your arms!

From the Systems Help Desk:
Effective immediately, patrons will be able to print from their own Windows XP/Vista laptops, via the wireless network, to our public printers. We are also working on including late model MacBooks on board – instructions should be available shortly.
The procedure, in a nutshell, is as follows:
[1] Have the laptop connect either to “UBC VPN” or “UBCSecure” wireless network
[2] Add a printer according to instructions within our “HowTo” webpage, “Printing” section
http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/about/instruct/htprint.html
[3] Print to the newly installed printer
[4] Approach our Print Release Station with a copy card to release the job:
– on the “Workstation ID” prompt, type “GUEST” instead
– choose the appropriate print job according to timestamp or content descriptions
Patrons can keep the installed library printer(s) on their laptops, in doing so they can skip step 2 if they need to re-use the same printer(s) at a later date.
Please note this service is currently offered on a “pilot/trial” basis, therefore we may have to make procedural changes or withdraw the service if we encounter performance or security issues.