3: Library Connections, September 2011

Message from Kim Isaac 

The University of the Fraser Valley Library publishes Library Connections in pdf format on the library website, monthly during fall and winter terms.

This issue was produced by the library newsletter team: Mary-Anne MacDougall, Patti Wilson, Shawnna Pierce, Heather Compeau, Selena Karli and Lisa Morry.

Contributors to this issue: Kim Isaac Mary-Anne MacDougall Heather Compeau Leslie Olsen Betty Wierda Katherine Watson Diane Nosaty Brenda Fredrick Lisa Morry

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On the cover: Political Science Instructor Scott Fast photographed for a bookmark, courtesy of UFV Media Technician Diane Nosaty.

Kim Isaac

University Librarian

Happy New Year! For those of us who have chosen careers in the academic environment, September always feels more like a new beginning than January 1st. We’re full of optimism and reso-lutions to be more organized, more proactive, more collegial, more…feel free to insert your particular goals here.

In the Library, we are starting the new academic year with some changes involving behind-the-scenes work during the sum-mer, and which we hope you will be very happy about. The first is that loan periods for both faculty and students are now significant-ly longer than they were before. We heard from faculty that the old loan period of two weeks for books just did not work for them, especially if the materials were needed for research. We heard from students that they weren’t satisfied, either. So, led by Circu-lation Librarian Brenda Philip, a task group of the Library Advisory Committee worked on making changes we implemented as of September 1st. See more information about these changes in this newsletter and on the library’s web site.

Another pleasant change is that the Abbotsford library was painted over the summer. The stark white walls that were in place since the library was built 16 years ago are gone, and when you visit us you will now be warmly greeted with greens, blues, and tans. Many thanks to the team of library staff who coordinated this major undertaking.

All the best to everyone as we start the academic year 2011/12!

“You don't know what you've got until it's gone.” That's how Dr. Andy Corrigan, Associate Dean of Libraries at Tulane University, de-scribed the impact of hurricane Katrina. —Leslie Olsen, page 10

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Inside

4 New loan periods

5 What’s new in the collection?

7 Catalogue changes powered by Google

7 Faculty profile featuring Katherine Watson

8-12 What Chilliwack staff learned during summer break

13 The art of the book

By Heather Compeau

Lights, camera, action! UFV Li-brary has just renewed its Feature Film Public Performance Rights License.

What is new this year is the ad-dition of entertainment use rights for films covered in the ACF Li-cense. Educational use allows the showing of films for instructional purposes in educational settings only. Here is what you can do:

The films can be shown any-where on campus.

The films can be shown by someone other than an instruc-tor, e.g. a student club, a staff training event.

The audience can include stu-dents and staff, with some members of the public present.

Please note the following limita-tions on Entertainment Use:

The event must be free to at-tend—no cost or cover charge. Showing films at charity fund-raisers is allowed, but only when the cost is purely by do-nation

The li-cense covers only films that have been re-leased for rent-al and home purchase; films still in theatrical release are not cov-ered.

The primary audience of the event must be members of the institution. Event advertising

must be limited to media target-ed at the university/college and its students and staff. In the case of print advertising, the advertisements may only ap-pear in campus media.

To locate studios and feature films covered by this addition to the license ACF License: http://www.acf-film.com/en/index.php and then click on the “Partner Studios” to see the studio listings. To locate individual film titles covered by ACF license use the "Advanced Search" feature lo-cated in the top right of the web-site.

If you have questions or need help please email me at [email protected].

For further information please see the UFV Library Copyright Guide: http://www.ufv.ca/library/services_policies/

New film licensing allows greater access

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Reference questions librarians get:

“Is there a lost and found?’” (Student looking for pants. He wore bike shorts riding to school but forgot to put pants in his backpack.) 13 

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New Loan Periods: Circulating high-

use books efficiently to students, faculty and staff UFV library is introducing new loan poli-cies that will see high-use books circulating faster to library patrons when they need them.

Effective now, all books go out to undergraduate students for three weeks guaranteed. Students may renew books for a further three weeks but these renewed books are subject to recall if someone else re-quests them. Otherwise, books may be renewed twice.

Faculty too will see changes as their borrowing privileges are ex-tended to four months. The first three weeks are guaranteed. After that, these books are also subject to recall.

That means students, staff or other faculty can call back books from other borrowers, including fac-ulty. Everyone has a five-day grace period to return books once they are called back.

Recall messages will be emailed to myufv email accounts. This major alteration in our poli-cies requires our patrons to check their email accounts regularly and read library announcements.

Loan periods for videos and journals have not changed. Loan periods for graduate stu-dents have not changed. See this library webpage for de-tails, including fine infor-mation: http://www.ufv.ca/library/services_policies/Borrowing_Materials.htm.

The library is launching a campaign to let borrowers know about the new loan periods. Pick up an informational bookmark featuring UFV students and faculty the next time you borrow something from the library.

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By Patti Wilson What do work-life balance, health inequities, aboriginal story-telling, and anti-terrorism have in common? These are all subjects covered in new books published by the UBC Press. Every spring and fall the UFV Library orders a significant number of books from Canadian university publishers. Here are some new UBC titles just received:

Health ineq-uities in Cana-da : intersec-tional frame-works and practices / Ole-na Hankivsky, 2011.

The free-dom of securi-ty : governing Canada in the age of counter-terrorism / Col-leen Bell, 2011.

First person plural : aborigi-nal storytelling and the ethics of collaborative authorship / Sophie McCall, 2011.

A life in balance? : re-opening the family-work debate / Cath-erine Krull, 2011.

Geography of British Co-lumbia : peo-ple and land-scapes in tran-sition 3rd ed. / Brent McGilli-vray, 2011.

Contesting white suprem-acy : school segregation, anti-racism, and the mak-ing of Chinese Canadians / Timothy John Stanley, 2011.

Retail na-tion : depart-ment stores and the mak-ing of modern Canada / Donica Belisle, 2011.

The infor-mation front : the Canadian Army and news man-agement dur-ing the second World War / Timothy Balzer, 2011.

Faith, poli-tics, and sex-ual diversity in Canada and the United States / David M. Rayside, 2011.

Wet Prairie : people, land, and water in agricultural Manitoba / Shannon Stunden Bower, 2011.

Age, gender, and work : small information technology firms in the new economy / Julie Ann McMullin, 2011.

British Columbia's inland rain-forest : ecology, conservation, and management / Susan Ste-venson, 2011. 

New University Press Titles at UFV Library

Collections librarian Patti Wilson

What’s new in the Collection?

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Bulletin board outside the Chilliwack library

New Paint: blues and greens bring natu-ral tones indoors to Abbotsford library

View showing main entrance and service desk in Abbotsford Campus Library

By Mary-Anne MacDougall

UFV library is sporting some new colours.

Rosemary Sprig, Eu-calyptus Leaf, Blue Note, Smokestack Gray and Natural Cream replace the original white walls the library has been wearing for the past 16 years.

The new paint gives the space a much need-ed facelift.

“The library is more inviting. It’s a nice green,” said Manpreet Khangura, a third year bachelor of science stu-dent, who recently visited the library.

Staff in the downstairs workroom benefited from the refresh as well. De-sert Shadow now defines the work room walls.

Paint isn’t the only change to the Abbotsford campus library. In addi-tion, we’ve added more group study tables and chairs and replaced some of the soft easy chairs for students to en-joy.

Colleen Bell

Catalogue changes harness the power of Google 

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When I first arrived at the University College of the Fraser Valley in 1994 I was in the midst of writing my dissertation and needed access to current edu-cation journals and completed dissertations. Not everything was online nor full text in those days! The inter-library loan librarians re-ceived many requests from me and they always did their best to

Katherine Watson: Social, cultural & media studies

help me out and find what was needed. For this I am always grateful. Since this time I have come to rely heavily on UFV library re-sources for both my own research and for my teaching. In particular the research databases at UFV have proven to be invaluable. For my own work I use a great deal of information from Statistics Canada including the Census, ed-ucation data, and the General So-cial Survey. I use StatsCan publi-cations such as Survey Methodol-ogy which allows me to stay up to date in my area. In addition, I use the Sociological Abstracts for cur-rent journal articles in a number of areas including education, meth-ods and theory. In regards to teaching I often use StatsCan data on low income cut-off rates to discuss the politics and complexity of research in my second year research class. Cur-

rently my first year Sociology stu-dents must use Sociological Ab-stracts to find journal articles for their annotated bibliography and paper assignments. This introduc-es many students to a source they were not aware of and allows them to search past Google as a resource. Last year the library supplied me with 2009 data from the Cana-dian Community Health Survey made available through the Data Liberation Initiative. My third year Quantitative Methods class used this data set to learn SPSS. The benefit of data acquired from large samples is that stu-dents can start to see the real life application of methods and data analysis. Their grasp of statistical analysis often grows when they can begin to understand how it applies to actual survey data. As well they learn about health and health care in Canada.

Faculty profile

You may have noticed that librarian Hongfei Li has added some new features to the library’s online cata-logue. Now Google suggestions will pop up when users type in search terms. If you make a mistake, the cata-logue will try to guess what you really meant, asking: “did you mean this?” Other features include a print or email link, Google Preview that lets users view a sample from a book, a shortened header that takes up less space and a link to help students and faculty who have forgotten their library pins. Clicking on the forgotten pin link takes library pa-trons to a box where they enter their student or em-

ployee numbers and will then receive their library pins by email. Other links let patrons send information to their smart phones or see the ap-proximate loca-tion of an item in the Ab-botsford library. The “cite it” link helps students create fast cita-tions as they work.

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Chilliwack Library Techni-cian Betty Wierda went to the Canadian Library Asso-ciation Conference in Hali-fax, Nova Scotia By Betty Wierda The Canadian Library Associa-tion conference in Halifax was a great opportunity to learn new things, be inspired with new ideas, and to do some self-evaluation and reflection on the work that I do with students here in the library. It was also a great time to talk to fellow library people. Believe it or not, not everyone in the world finds library technology and ser-vice an interesting topic in the same way that library people do! One of the workshop present-ers addressed service in the li-brary. The speaker used several different names for the visitor to the library: patron, customer, guest and partner. She suggested that the best word or name is partner, as this name affects the style of service we provide.

As partners, we look together in the same direction and the princi-ple becomes “We do it with you.” This is a teaching style of service where we collaborate with the student to help them with their information needs. Another workshop gave a se-ries of six quick talks about new technologies. PREZI, which is

available online, allows a group of people to collaborate on the same document via the internet. While in Halifax I also enjoyed sea air, the view of the harbour, the great seafood, and learning more about the history of the city, including the historical Citadel site. I often spotted fellow conference attendees on my walks around the city. They were easy to spot as many were carrying the distinctive green CLA bag. We were asked to wear a lapel button that said “I am CLA.” This button became a reminder to me that each individual’s contribution to an organization is important. I intend to carry that thought with me in the coming months, as I work with students in the library here at UFV.

Royal Artillery prepares to fire the noon cannon at the Halifax Citadel National Historic Site

Betty in Downtown Halifax

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Chilliwack Library Techni-cian Lisa Morry went on the UFV Study Tour to Paris, France By Lisa Morry If there’s one dream location for professional development, at least in my dreams, that would be Paris. Someone pinch me please, be-cause I was in Paris this June on a UFV study tour. Ah, sigh.

On day one, we landed nine hours ahead of ourselves, dropped our gear and got on the metro for a quick trip to Notre Dame, Victor Hugo’s inspiration for “The Hunch-back of Notre Dame.” It would be the next day before we went inside this 13th century cathedral to view the art and chapels and climb 387 steps to take pictures of the gar-goyles surrounded by city views.

My regular hiking routine was excellent training for Notre Dame’s stairs and the many oth-er staircases we would encoun-ter at other tour sites including Sacre Coeur, the highest point in Paris, and the excellent Paris transit system (the one thing I would bring home for a souvenir if I could, but I had to buy scarves and shoes instead), whose stairs take travellers above and below rail lines to access connections to different routes and directions.

The Eiffel Tower, whose steps I unfortunately did not get to climb, is roughly the same height as Tea-pot Hill in Cultus Lake. I did get to

run down the lower two levels of this Paris landmark in a wrath-of-God thunder, lightning and rain storm to overflowing Paris sewers.

But it was not all fun and en-joyment. There were some serious adjustments to make. It is essen-tial to speak at least some French in Paris. Then there is the general dearth of whole wheat bread, cups of tea, and fruit and vegetables. Despite my brave sacrifice in eat-ing excellent French bread, drink-

ing café crème and red wine, and sampling rich pastries, I lost weight. I have to credit the ener-getic pace set by our tour leaders: Modern Languages department head Betty-Joan Traverse, Fash-ion Design instructor Gayle Rams-den and Alexandria Idzior.

Tied for top place in my list of Paris highlights are the Louvre and the Paris Opera House, which is the setting for the fictional “Phantom of the Opera.” This 2,200-seat beauty, commissioned by Napoleon III, features an under-ground lake and a six-tonne chan-delier. We were fortunate to get a guided tour in English but not al-lowed to go backstage. However, in Musee d’Orsay there is a de-tailed model of the opera house, including the backstage area, the subterranean passages and the theatre’s fly tower.

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Lisa in the Louvre courtyard

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Chilliwack Library Techni-cian Leslie Olsen went to the American Library Asso-ciation conference in New Orleans By Leslie Olsen “You don't know what you've got until it's gone.” That's how Dr. Andy Corrigan, Associate Dean of Libraries at Tulane University, de-scribed the impact of hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. I was for-tunate to hear Dr. Corrigan speak during a session I attended at the 2011 Annual American Library As-sociation Conference held in New Orleans this past June.

I visited New Orleans for the first time about 15 years ago and fell in love with the people, music, culture and architecture. Oh, and I'd be remiss not to mention anoth-

er New Orleans highlight—the food. Beignets, cafe au lait, pra-lines and po-boys are some of my favourites.

I was looking forward to revisit-ing New Orleans but at the same time felt a bit hesitant, wondering

how much the city had changed after Katrina. Like many of us, I watched the television coverage of hurricane Katrina in 2005 and was horrified by the images. Since then I've been following the rebuilding efforts and was intrigued when I saw Dr. Corrigan's session titled "The Aftermath of Katrina and Rita: The Effects on Libraries, People and Neighbourhoods" listed in the conference program.

So how does a library cope with a disaster of this magnitude? Dr. Corrigan began his presentation by describing what happened when hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans on August 29, 2005. At Tulane University, two thirds of the campus flooded, amounting to millions of dollars worth of damage and cancellation of the fall semes-ter. The city was closed for about a month after the hurricane and no one was allowed back on campus.

When Dr. Corrigan was finally able to access the campus, he dis-covered nine feet of water in the lowest level of the main library and about a million books under water. It was at this point that library staff threw out the disaster plan be-cause, as Dr. Corrigan comment-ed, "there was no way to prepare for this." To complicate matters, the power, data and heating/cooling systems for the library buildings were not working.

A restoration company was hired but other help was in short supply. Residents of New Orleans had evacuated the city and library staff were scattered across the country. When they returned, many had to contend with their own flooded homes.

After draining the water from Tulane University’s library

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Post-Katrina Conference in the Big Easy

Tulane University Library after Hurricane Katrina

Leslie Olsen 

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From page 10 buildings using generators and pumps, hot air blow-ers were brought in to slow down mould growth. The restoration company salvaged most of the special collections (80% of the print music collection was saved) however, films, CDs, and recordings did not fare so well after floating in water for a month. All the salvaged items were sent to a restoration facility in Texas where they were washed individually by hand and dried in a vacuum system to prevent waffling.

By October 2005, the restoration of the collection was underway but the library buildings were not ready. Donations started pouring in and there was no place to house all of the donated and salvaged mate-rial. Dr. Corrigan and his staff found a solution, set-ting up a temporary facility to store and process ma-terials until they could be moved back into the library buildings. The university had committed to opening for the spring semester of 2006 and amazingly, the libraries were up and running. However, not every-thing is back to normal: the "temporary" HVAC units installed after hurricane Katrina are still being used six years later.

Dr. Corrigan said the timing of the hurricane was actually good in the sense that many students hadn't arrived on campus for the fall semester start-up. For-tunately, the university was able to find spaces for some of their students at cooperating universities with the condition that students return to Tulane after the fall semester.

Today, Dr. Corrigan believes Tulane is a better university than before hurricane Katrina. Staff and students who didn't have strong ties to New Orleans left after Katrina and the university recruited some really good people who want to be there. Another positive outcome of hurricane Katrina was the re-vamping of the undergrad program which now em-phasizes community and service, making it unique to Tulane University.

In between conference sessions I toured the French Quarter and visited a former plantation, Oak

Alley. I was relieved to find the French Quarter much the same as I remembered—it didn’t sustain as much damage as other parts of the city during the hurri-cane. In some neighbourhoods, however, I saw boarded up houses and evidence of hurricane dam-age. A bus driver pointed out water marks on a free-way underpass indicating how high the flood water rose. It was higher than the bus.

After talking to some New Orleanians and hearing personal stories of the rebuilding effort, I was struck by their passion and dedication to the city. The per-son who made the most impact on me was the hotel housekeeper. When she found out I was attending the library conference she gave me a hug and thanked “the librarians” for returning to New Orleans. She said the American Library Association was one of the first organizations to hold a conference in New Orleans after the hurricane and residents were grate-ful for the support.

She was glad we came back again. I was too.

No planning for a disaster of this scope

Tulane University Library after Hurricane Katrina

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By Lisa Morry

It started with student life programmer Martin Kelly cleaning out a closet.

Martin was under or-ders to clear out some stuff and there, on a table at his elbow, was the tin man you can now see on a bulletin board down the hall from the Chilliwack library.

Teddy Bear Dreams, a Chilliwack dance shop, do-nated a pair of defective dance shoes. We painted them red and covered them with sparkles. Kartar Thandi from Facilities drilled holes in our shoes and secured them to the bulletin board.

The witch’s hat came

from the Aboriginal Resource Centre’s Josephine Charlie. Theatre instructor Ian Fenwick lent us the broom, doll and mask.

It turned out that at the same time as we were planning our display, Ian was planning a new course: Musical Theatre 306. The poster, designed by

Diane Nosaty from IMS, advertises that course.

Look for a display of related re-sources, coming soon to the Chilli-wack library, or see the online display here: http://www.ufv.ca/library/exhibits/thewizardofozandmusicaltheatre.htm.

History of Musical Theatre display in Chilliwack

From page 9 The Louvre goes on for days, weeks even. My first glimpse came when walking along the Rue de Rivoli when we spotted what looked like a very old palace. We walked for about 15 minutes without coming to the end of the building.

The glass pyramid, glimpsed through an arch-way, gave it away. The Louvre itself was old looking and dirty. It should be old: the original Louvre for-tress was built 800 years ago.

In the mid-1300s the Louvre became a royal pal-ace and was eventually Louis XIV’s home before he built Versailles. After the French Revolution, the Louvre was transformed into a public museum, ex-panded and re-organized over the years to become the Grand Louvre, punctuated by Ieoh Ming Pei’s

stunning pyramid entrance to a lower level that in-cludes shops and amenities.

Today, the Louvre’s 60,000 square meters of ex-hibition space contain 35,000 artworks, including Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” Islamic art, ancient Egyptian artefacts and a display of the medieval Louvre’s foundations and moat, on whose ancient stone structure images from the visitors entering the pyramid above are projected.

Studying the Louvre and other Paris museums, I wrote papers exploring the theory and politics be-hind museum displays. Applying the theoretical framework to the institutions I visited in Paris will help the work I do in creating physical and virtual displays for UFV library, as well as working with stu-dents researching assignments.

Summer learning: Louvre museum was a highlight 

Bulle n board outside Chilliwack library 

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Book Art: visual art instructor Brenda Fredrick’s

students mount summer display in UFV Abbotsford library

Photos of student work courtesy of Brenda Fredrick