UBC Library is proud to be part of Celebrate Research Week at UBC, which takes place March 4-11, 2011 and highlights research excellence across UBC’s faculties, departments, schools and partner institutions. You can find out more about this event here.

INNOVATIVE DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH AWARD

In 2010, the Library launched the Innovative Dissemination of Research Award, which honours faculty, staff and students who expand the boundaries of research with the creative use of new tools and technologies. The inaugural award was given to Michael Brauer, a Professor at UBC’s School of Environmental Health. Brauer led a team that developed the Cycling Metro Vancouver Route Planner – you can read more about the project here.

The next award will announced at the upcoming Celebrate Research Week gala on March 10.

CELEBRATE RESEARCH WEEK @ UBC LIBRARY – WORKSHOPS

RefWorks for the Sciences

Monday, March 7

10 a.m. – noon

Woodward Library Teaching Lab, Room B25

RefWorks is a Web-based citation management tool sponsored by UBC Library and available free-of-charge to UBC faculty, staff and students. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create your own personal database in RefWorks by importing references from online resources such as Web of Science, Google Scholar, PubMed, Compendex and others. Then you’ll use RefWorks to add these citations to a paper and automatically format both in text references and the bibliography in a citation style of your choice. We’ll also demo RefShare and RSS feeder tools that are part of RefWorks.

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1092

RefWorks for the Health Sciences

Tuesday, March 8

10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Children & Women’s Health Centre of BC, Room C311

RefWorks is a Web-based citation management tool sponsored by UBC Library and available to UBC faculty, staff and students. Explore how you can use RefWorks to create your own personal databases by importing citations from Medline, PubMed, Web of Science and other life sciences databases. Then see how easily RefWorks will format your paper and bibliography according to your selected citation style.

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1809

Noon-hour Refworks

Tuesday, March 8

Noon – 1 p.m.

Woodward Library, McKechnie Room – Room 109

RefWorks is a Web-based citation management tool sponsored by UBC Library and available free-of-charge to UBC faculty, staff and students. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create your own personal database in RefWorks by importing references from online resources such as Google Scholar and PubMed. Then you’ll use RefWorks to add these citations to a paper and automatically format both in text references and the bibliography in a citation style of your choice. We recommend you bring your own laptop to this session.

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1919

Writing the Research Paper: Student Workshop

Wednesday, March 9

Noon – 1 p.m.

Location: Online

You’ve done a lot research – but now what? Documenting your research through writing can be a challenge to many students. This one-hour workshop will discuss the pitfalls of plagiarism and showcase skills such as citation and paraphrasing. If you’ve ever worried about properly documenting your work and giving credit to others, this workshop is for you.

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1830

Get Published – Sources and Resources

Wednesday, March 9

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Neville Scarfe Building, Room 155

Want to get an article published? Learn how to create a list of potential journals for your work. Find out about Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities, Ulrich’s Periodical Directory, COS Scholar’s Universe and the Directory of Open Access Journals. In addition, browse UBC online journals and indexes for possible titles.

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1915

What’s the Impact of Your Research? Tips and Tools for Measuring Usage

Wednesday, March 9

1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 318

When you, as a researcher, refer to another author’s work in your own published work, you cite it. These citations can be analyzed to measure the usage of the cited work. While citation analysis doesn’t necessarily provide a complete picture of your work, it can be a useful tool for gathering evidence on its impact. In this session, you’ll receive an introduction to citation indexes and journal-ranking tools to help you measure the usage of your own work.

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1907

RefWorks for Business Researchers

Thursday, March 10

9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Canaccord Learning Commons computer lab, Sauder School of Business, CLC 222

This workshop is limited to faculty and graduate students at the Sauder School of Business. RefWorks is a Web-based citation management tool available to UBC students, faculty and staff through UBC Library. Learn how to create your own database of citations; import citations directly from databases such as Business Source Complete and Web of Science; and generate a bibliography for your paper. Time permitting, we will also look at the how to use the RSS feature as an awareness tool and how to share citations with other researchers.

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1930

Intro to PubMed

Thursday, March 10

Noon – 1 p.m.

Woodward Library, McKechnie Room – Room 109

Need a jumpstart on PubMed? Join us for a workshop on how to maximize PubMed’s search capabilities and link to UBC library’s full text journals. We recommend you bring your own laptop to this session.

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1921

Get Published -Sources and Resources

Thursday, March 10

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Neville Scarfe Building, Room 155

Want to get an article published? Learn how to create a list of potential journals for your work. Find out about Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities, Ulrich’s Periodical Directory, COS Scholar’s Universe and the Directory of Open Access Journals. In addition, browse UBC online journals and indexes for possible titles.

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1914

Finding and Using Images in ARTstor

Friday, March 11

10:30 a.m. – noon

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 318

ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images that are licensed for educational use at UBC. They cover the areas of art, architecture, and the humanities and social sciences. In this one-hour workshop you will learn how to search the ARTstor database effectively and interact with its many features, such as saving and downloading images and using the offline presentation software.

http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1788

Canadiana enthusiasts can take in an exhibition that highlights the history of the Canadian flag, the flag debates of the first half of the 20th century and the now-familiar Maple Leaf flag.

The exhibit, which runs until March 9, is at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections division, located on the lower level of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and Woodward Library are proud to present Dr. Larry Goldenberg – an award-winning Canadian researcher, pioneer in the treatment of prostate cancer and world-renowned advocate of patient education. Dr. Goldenberg authored one of the first books to explain prostate cancer treatment options in layman’s terms. Prostate Cancer: All You Need to Know to Take an Active Part in Your Treatment, now in its third edition, is widely considered to be one of the best resources available to men diagnosed with the disease.

Come join us as Dr. Goldenberg, director of the Vancouver Prostate Centre and head of the Department of Urologic Sciences at UBC, talks about his research and new developments.

A live Q&A Webcast of this event will be available at http://tiny.cc/goldenberg

Seats are limited, so please reserve as soon as possible! You can RSVP at 604.827.4366 or ikblc-events@interchange.ubc.ca

The event takes place on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. It will be held in the Chilcotin Board Room (Room 256) at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

Dear users – UBC Library is proud to present Summon, your new one-stop search tool.

Summon provides fast, relevance-ranked results on any topic from UBC Library’s collections in a single search. It will let you search the full range of UBC Library’s vast holdings – including books, journals, articles, newspapers, government publications, maps, data, conference proceedings, course materials and more – all in one place.

You can view our collections of e-books, e-journals, databases, indexes and open access resources. The records of cIRcle – UBC’s Information Repository – and the Library’s digital image collections are also available for your research needs.

And last but not least, Summon is speedy. Just give it a try and find out for yourself.

The launch of Summon underlines a key goal of UBC’s strategic plan: “Enhance and integrate access to print and digital collections to make them easier to find.”  Our new discovery tool will make your search efforts quicker and better. And we hope you agree – please let us know what you think by sending comments and questions to lib.summonfeedback@exchange.ubc.ca.

You can find more information on Summon here.

Happy searching!

The Irving K. Barber Centre is proud to present writers Ray Hsu and Evelyn Lau, who will appear at an upcoming instalment of the Robson Reading Series.

Ray Hsu is a poet, activist and scholar who teaches creative writing at UBC. His book Anthropy won the 2005 League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award and was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. He has published over 100 poems in more than 35 journals across Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., including Fence, The Fiddlehead, and New American Writing. Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon, the follow-up to Anthropy, is the second book in a prospective trilogy that explores the “grammar of personhood.”

Evelyn Lau was born in Vancouver in 1971. She is the author of four volumes of poetry, two works of non-fiction, two short story collections and a novel. Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, published when she was 18, was a Canadian bestseller and was made into a CBC movie starring Sandra Oh in her first major role. Lau’s prose books have been translated into a dozen languages worldwide. You Are Not Who You Claim won the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award; Oedipal Dreams was nominated for the Governor-General’s Award. Her work has appeared in over 100 literary magazines, garnering four Western Magazine Awards and a National Magazine Award. She has also won the Air Canada Award for Most Promising Writer and the Vantage Women of Originality Award. Her poems have been included in the Best American Poetry and Best Canadian Poetry series. She has read from and discussed her work at literary festivals and universities around the world; she has freelanced as a mentor to aspiring writers through UBC’s Booming Ground and SFU’s Writing and Publishing Program.

Living Under Plastic represents a major departure from Lau’s previous poetry books. It opens up to explore new subjects: family history, illness, death and dying, consumerism and the natural world. In a tone that is often elegiac, without ever being maudlin, these poems are steeped in immortality and loss.

This Robson Reading Series event takes place on Thursday, February 24 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Victoria Learning Theatre (Room 182), located on the lower level of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

You can find more information about the Robson Reading Series here.

cIRcle, UBC’s information repository, celebrated a special milestone at the end of January when the 30,000th record was added to its holdings.

In 2008, UBC Library launched cIRcle, which serves as the digital archive of UBC’s intellectual output. It features published and unpublished materials created at UBC, and it is openly accessible – meaning that it is freely available online. Some highlights of cIRcle’s collection include UBC material related to the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, along with several thousand recent UBC theses and disserations, and nearly 24,000 older theses, as part of the UBC Retrospective Theses project.

The 30,000th record to join the cIRcle collection is a Chemistry Ph.D. thesis entitled The chemistry of thujone: the synthesis of rose oil components and germacrane analogues. In the past week, it has been viewed by users in countries including Canada, the U.S., the United Kingdom, India and Russia.

You can find more information on cIRcle here.

Need a new approach to hitting the books? Check out UBC’s online workshop series and learn about time management, budgeting basics, critical thinking, note-taking, exam strategies and more.

You can find out more information here.

Additional photo credit information: Listening to History by Bill Woodrow, photo by cliff1066.

Come out on Wednesday, February 9 for a fascinating talk on rare books at UBC Library, courtesy of the Arts Wednesdays program.

What determines a “rare” book?  What authors and topics are included in this exclusive designation?  Who collects rare books and why? Join Ralph Stanton, Head of Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) at UBC Library, as he explores the known and unknown treasures housed in UBC’s collection at the Irving K. Barber Learning Center. Discover topics ranging from classic literary collections to the world of golf.

Arts Wednesdays, a free public lecture series now in its seventh successful season, brings UBC’s outstanding Faculty of Arts to the entire community. Held at Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, the winter 2011 season will feature a series devoted to the Creative Arts. The February 9 event begins at 6 p.m.; Robson Square is located at 800 Robson Street.

Please join us on Thursday, February 3 when the Chapman Discussion Series presents Affordable Housing for All? Homelessness and Legal Activism in Vancouver.

This panel discussion will explore the systemic inequalities and injustices built into Canada’s public policy that impact the availability of affordable housing for low-income and marginalized persons. Our panelists will provide diverse, informed perspectives on the housing crisis in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and beyond. More information on topics and panelists is available here.

UBC students, faculty and community members are welcome to bring their questions and comments to this engaging event, which takes place on Thursday, February 3 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lillooet Room, located in the Chapman Learning Commons on level three of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Refreshments will be served.

Live-in for Literacy is taking place again this year on the second floor foyer of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Three students are “camping” at the Learning Centre between January 27 and February 3, raising funds to build schools, libraries and other educational infrastructure in developing countries.

This year, the goal this year is to raise $27,000 through participating universities for the construction of six libraries in India. You can find out more about this inspiring initiative here.

UBC Library is proud to welcome the Live-in for Literacy initiative once again – please come by the Learning Centre and show your support!

Note: this year’s Live-in for Literacy initiative was covered by Global BC television news.