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Not coming out to Point Grey Campus during the Mid-term Break?  Consider attending online library workshops put on by the Life Sciences Librarians between Feb 16-26.

CINAHL, the new Pubmed, Web of Science, Current Awareness tools, Finding Theses, Refworks and more are being offered.

For more details and to register go to:  http://tinyurl.com/libraryworkshops.

In order to create space on the second and third floors of Woodward Library, we are moving a selection of low use monographs to Koerner Library, and serials with online equivalents to off site storage.

• Low use monographs are books that are at least 20 years old and have not circulated in the past 5 years. These books can be identified in the catalogue with the location Koerner Library – Woodward collection (floor 1), and you can still borrow them.
• Serials with online equivalents are journals for which there is an electronic version. To prepare for the move, UBC Library has purchased the ejournal archives for more than 800 titles from the following publishers:  Nature Publishing,  Annual Reviews, Oxford University Press, ScienceDirect, American Medical Association and Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (Journals@Ovid). For many journals, you’ll be able to access articles dating back to volume 1 from your desktop!

This is a large project, and we anticipate that there will be some record clean-up required. Please contact Sally Taylor or Greg Rowell if you have any questions or concerns about the move.

First day of the book move, starting at A (photo courtesy of J. Procyk)

Preparing books to move to Koerner Library (photo courtesy of K. Miller)

As part of the Year of Science Zine-a-Thon contest, Woodward Library is holding a zine making workshop on Monday October 26 at 2 pm in the McKechnie room.

Kelly McElroy, MLIS Candidate at SLAIS, GAA at Woodward Library and Zine writer will be leading a workshop on how to create a science zine.

For more information, see Invitation to Science Zine Making Workshop

Register here

picture from Flickr Colorado College Zine Collection

Fine tune your research skills with the following workshops:

• September 15: PubMed: the Basics and Beyond
• September 16: Current Awareness Tools (email alerts & RSS feeds)
• September 17: RefWorks for the Sciences

For details and registration, click on the complete list of workshops in the Life Sciences.

CAB Direct, a key database for agriculture, animal science, conservation, forestry, global health and nutrition has a snazzy new look. The new interface, which is available now and will replace the existing version on September 1, offers a more intuitive search experience. Features include:

• Simple and advanced search screens.
• Suggestions for spelling variations.
• The ability to refine search results by subject, year, journal, author, geographic location and language.
• Abstract snippet views at the results level.
• Links to full text articles using the View Full Text and UBC eLink icons.
• MyCABDirect, a personal account where you can set-up email alerts and RSS feeds based on saved searches.

A heads-up about RefWorks: The Direct Export feature is not available in the new interface. Instead you can download the results and save them as an .RIS file, and then Import the file into RefWorks using the .RIS filter.

For help with the new interface, please contact Sally Taylor or Katherine Miller at Woodward Library.

During the summer, reference librarians are available Monday to Friday, 10am-4pm at Woodward Library, and 9am-5pm in the UBC hospital libraries. Please ask at the Circulation Desk for assistance.

You can also contact your Subject Librarian directly for help via email or telephone, or to make an appointment.

A new librarian at Woodward? Photo by Joseph Procyk

Feel like browsing in the bookstacks?  But not quite ready for a trip to campus?    Try a visit to the Internet Archive — www.archive.org.  Then click on texts.   There are over a million books to browse;  you’ll find standard formats such as PDF but also nostalgic formats such as the flip book.  You’ll find almost 200,000 volumes from Canadian libraries.  One of my favorites is an early volume (1905) of Canadian Nurse.  And there are 30,000 amazing volumes from the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project.  This project is a joint effort of  natural history museum libraries,  botanical garden libraries, and research institutions such as Harvard and Woods Hole.   Most volumes are pre-1923.  The book pictured below on whale-fishery was published in 1820.

Happy browsing!

Black and white printing and photocopying price reduced! Also, you can now print in colour at all of the Life Sciences Libraries!

• Black & white printing and photocopies price reduced to 7 cents (A savings from the former cost of 12 cents per page for copying and 13 cents per page for printing.)
• Colour printing: 40 cents per copy
  
• double-sided printing and photocopying
  

Colour photocopying at Woodward Library: 40 cents per copy

Dean Giustini, Reference Librarian at the Biomedical Branch Library at Vancouver General Hospital has been honored as a 2009 Library Journal Tech Evangelist “Mover & Shaker”.

You can view the article on Dean here: http://www.libraryjournal.com/MS2009Inductee/2140335997.html

Dean was also CHLA’s Hospital Librarian of the Year in 2007.

Congratulations Dean!