Upcoming Workshop: Digging into Digital Book Collections
Learn how to further your research by using digital book collections including Google Books and the Hathi Trust. You will leave this workshop knowing: • how to search within books to locate research material not evident from title or chapter descriptions • conduct more thorough literature reviews on primary sources • perform cited reference searches […]
Upcoming Workshop: How to do research for a literature review
Learn a step-by-step approach to identify databases, primary sources and other research tools and then to perform comprehensive searches and keep track of what you’ve found. Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 1:00PM – 3:30PM Koerner Library, Room 216 Bring your own laptop Register online at http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2832
Upcoming Workshop: Current Awareness Tools
Save valuable research time! Online research resources offer an array of tools to help you stay current in your field. In this workshop you’ll learn how to set up email alerts and RSS feeds to: be notified when new articles and dissertations are published on your topic receive Table of Contents for the latest issue […]
New Book of Note, Koerner Library: The Spatial Humanities
Bodenhamer, David J., John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris. The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. From the publisher’s description: The Spatial Humanities aims to re-orient—and perhaps revolutionize—humanities scholarship by critically engaging the technology and specifically directing it to the subject matter of the humanities. To this […]
Twitter Guide for Academics from the LSE
The Public Policy Group and the Impact of Social Sciences blog at the London School of Economics have produced a guide to “show academics and researchers how to get the most out of [Twitter] the micro-blogging site. The guide is designed to lead the novice through the basics of Twitter but also provide tips on […]
Living Books About Life: LiviBL
If you’ve ever wondered about the future of the book, have a look at these: “Living Books About Life is a series of curated, open access books about life — with life understood both philosophically and biologically — which provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. Produced by a globally-distributed network of writers […]
Upcoming Workshops
Noon-Hour Intro to RefWorks Workshop Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at 12:00PM – 1:00PM Woodward Biomedical Library: Teaching Lab – Room B25 Finding and Using Data from the Census of Canada Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 at 10:00AM – 11:45AM Irving K. Barber Learning Centre: Room 318 – Library Computer Lab Photo: Winston Wong
Library Workshops for Undergraduates @ Koerner
Koerner Library is offering three workshops over the next month especially for undergraduates in humanities and social sciences. Currently, we’re offering two sessions of each: one in the computer lab in Koerner Library and one online. Full details and registration here. Introduction to the Library for Humanities and Social Sciences Students Sept 20th at noon […]
Upcoming Workshops: Citations, Current Awareness Tools, and more.
Created especially for graduate students, these workshops are open to undergraduates and faculty members as well. Click the links below for a full description of upcoming workshops. Full list of workshops here. Grad Student Orientation to the Library Web of Science/Journal Citation Reports Find the most highly-cited journals in your field. PubMed (Online Workshop) […]
March UBC GIS Users Group
Open Source GIS is the topic for this month’s UBC GIS Users Group Meeting. Jeff Burton, from GIS and Data Visualization – UBC Records, will be presenting. Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:00 – 5:00 PM Koerner Library Room 216 We hope to see you there!