Electronic Reading Lists

Attention UFV Faculty!

Did you know that many of your course readings, particularly for scholarly journal articles, are available in UFV’s electronic journals collection?

The UFV Library is offering a service to create electronic reading lists for your courses.

We can create persistent links to our licensed or open access journal, magazine and newspaper content, to e-books, or to freely available web documents, such as government reports. Students can click on the link to access the course reading. These links will work from off-campus.

Process

• Instructors can email their course readings lists to the UFV library. We will add persistent links to all readings available electronically, if possible.
• The list will be emailed back to the instructor.
• You may then use the document in Blackboard, myUFV, as an email handout to students, or on a course web page.
• A second option is to have us prepare an electronic course reserves page within the UFV Library catalogue.


Advantages

• UFV has already paid licensing fees for access to this content. Students do not have to duplicate this payment in the form of royalty fees.
• Additional readings can be added at any time throughout the semester.
• Students can access the readings from any computer, both on and off campus

Limitations

• We are not arranging to digitize and link to print book chapters.
• Not all journals are available in UFV’s licensed collection.
• Please allow adequate processing time.

The Electronic Reading List request form is available at:
http://www.ufv.ca/library/faculty/reserves/ereadings.htm

For more information, contact Patti Wilson at loc. 4277

A reminder: don't leave personal property unattended.

Library patrons should keep all valuables including purses, backpacks, textbooks, laptops, or cell phones with them at all times. No personal items should be left unattended in the Library, even for a brief period of time. UFV Libraries are not responsible for the theft of personal property in the Library.

A reminder: No food in the library

We want the library to be a great place to study, think and write; one that is clean and accessible. We don’t permit food in the library, and we ask that you make sure your drinks are covered to avoid spilling on the furniture, floors or books! Save your lunch or dinner to eat in the cafeteria or other areas on campus. We ask that you throw any cups or bottles into our recycling and/or garbage bins provided. If you are being disturbed by the aromas, noise or mess of food eaten by students near you, please tell a library employee at one of our service desks. We appreciate your cooperation and help in keeping our library clean.

View the library policy on food and drink.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online now at UFV

Based on the English Short Title bibliography, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 - 1800. This collection contains over 136,000 printed works comprising more than 26 million scanned fascimile pages.
Full text searching allows users to explore a vast range of books, directories, plays, Bibles, sheet music, sermons, advertisements, letters, broadsides, essays and more.
 Major 18th century writers are represented, with multiple editions of their works.  Authors include Addison, Bentham, Boswell, Burke, Burns, Congreve, Defoe, Fielding, Gibbon, Hume, Johnson, Paine, Pope, Reynolds, Richardson, Rousseau, Sheridan, Smith, Smollett, Sterne, Swift, and Voltaire. As well, rare works from lesser known authors are included.
ECCO will be useful to research the history of most disciplines, including  geography, British and world history, exploration, political science, social reform, business and economics, medicine, science, technology, literature and theatre, religion, philosophy, law, music and fine arts.

Posted by Patti Wilson

Berg Fashion Library now available!

Berg Fashion Library is a unique portal for content and images in fashion and dress studies. It includes:

• Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (10 volumes)
• Full text of approximately 60 Berg fashion e-books
• Thousands of colour images from the V&A Museum and other sources
• Fashion dictionaries
• Indexing of key fashion periodicals 

UFV has a 3 simultaneous user license.  Take an online tour of the Berg Fashion Library.

Updated by Mary-Anne MacDougall

Easter Hours

Will you need a place to get away from Easter bunnies and candies? Fortunately, the library at the Abbotsford campus will be open all four days of the Easter weekend! All the usual services will be offered and a reference librarian will be there to help you with your research as the semester winds down.

The Abbotsford Campus Library will be open:

• Friday, April 6th: noon-6PM
• Saturday, April 7th: 10AM-6PM
• Sunday, April 8th: noon-6PM
• Monday, April 9th: noon-6PM

The Chilliwack Campus library will be open on Saturday, April 7, 10AM-4PM. It will be closed all other days of the Easter weekend.

The Mission Campus library will be closed for the entire weekend.

Posted by Brenda

UFV History databases added

Two UFV produced history databases have been added to the Research Databases gateway.

South Asia History Bibliography indexes books, book chapters, and scholarly journal articles related to South Asian history. It is designed to support UFV history courses, and was developed by Dr. David Milobar and a team from the UFV Library, including Mary-Anne MacDougall and Colleen Bell.

Woman's Own Index is a  free, fully searchable, online index to the writings on women’s issues appearing in nineteenth-century British periodicals between 1806 and 1901. WOI is the work of a collaborative team led by Dr. Jack Gaston and librarian Mary-Anne MacDougall.