By Sheryl Adam on September 5, 2014
Grad Student Orientation, build your academic profile, format your thesis . . .
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By Sheryl Adam on July 27, 2012
The summer Olympics were last held in the United Kingdom in 1948, when these happy New Zealand athletes arrived by ship. The wonderful photo is from The Picture Post Historical Archive, a “complete, fully text searchable facsimile archive of the Picture Post, the iconic newspaper published in Britain between 1938-1957 that defined the style of […]
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By Trish on July 12, 2012
The Koerner Library Reference Desk has moved upstairs to the entrance level of Koerner Library. As a result you will now have access to a broader range of services and support in one single location, including the expertise of our subject librarians. According to data from the Library’s question tracking system, library users like yourself […]
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By Trish on March 20, 2012
Census GIS is the topic for this month’s GIS Users Group meeting. Tom Brittnacher, the GIS Librarian, will be talking about how to get census data and geographic boundaries out of SimplyMap and Abacus, and into GIS. Wednesday, March 28 3:00 – 4:00 PM Koerner Library, Level 2, Room 216
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By Trish on March 15, 2012
Have you even spent work or study time surfing the web for your personal interests? That’s cyberloafing and if you’ve been doing more of it this week, you’re not alone. “The switch to Daylight Savings Time (DST) results in a dramatic increase in cyberloafing behavior at the national [US] level.” Researchers used Google’s archival data […]
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By Trish on March 14, 2012
JSTOR, a key resource in humanities and social sciences, offers short training videos on a number of topics, including advanced search techniques and how to set up alerts for new articles in your area(s) of interest. Most videos are fewer than 5 minutes long. Frequent JSTOR users should definitely have a look.
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By Trish on February 20, 2012
Does your work require a data set for secondary analysis? Learn how to find and download data from household surveys. The session will focus on the library’s collection of survey data as well as data archives to which UBC researchers have full access: Statistics Canada surveys; Public opinion polls collected by the Roper Center for […]
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By Trish on February 14, 2012
Discover | Gather | Create | Share Graduate Student Workshops in a Day: Koerner Library, Wednesday, February 22 We’ve chosen a day during reading week to offer eight of our most popular workshops for graduate students and any interested faculty, instructors, post-docs or RA’s. See a complete list of workshops here, or browse the listings […]
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By Trish on February 13, 2012
Spatial aspects of health research will be the theme of this month’s UBC GIS Users Group meeting. We will have three presenters, each giving a brief description of their use of GIS and mapping in health research. If there’s time, we’ll follow with a general discussion about the use of GIS technology and data in […]
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By Trish on February 7, 2012
The first part of the workshop will consist of an overview of key Canadian, US and international statistical databases available through the UBC Library. You will have the opportunity to work on sample questions and/or your own research questions using the new tools. Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 at 10:00AM – 11:30AM Koerner Library Room 217 […]
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