Message from Kim Isaac 2 “If you’re writing a period novel, you have to know what people wore. Economic times, what’s going on in the world, technology; all these things affect culture and dress.” —Gayle Ramsden, page 10 Moving the Chilliwack library to the new Canada Education Park campus is the central event for us this issue. This new facility has been in the works for at least two years, and the knowledge that within a few weeks we will be there, has everyone very excited. But long-serving library staff members know that this is in fact the fourth time that a move from the existing Building A (the “motel”) on the Chilliwack North campus has been planned, which makes the fulfillment of the dream even sweeter. Back in 1993/94, detailed plans were developed for a building that was to replace Building A where the library is located. This building was to be located next to the “new” Building D, which houses the theatre, cafeteria, etc. But Ministry funding was not forthcoming, and the plans were put on the shelf. In the early 2000s, there was a flurry of activity when UCFV was given an indication that this building was once again a possibility, so the old plans were pulled out, dusted off, and updated to address new building code regulations and other changes. Libraries had evolved quite a bit in the years since the first plans, and we had to make changes to address the increased use of technology by staff and students. We were very excited at the prospect of a new library, but once again our hopes were dashed and the building was postponed. Once again, later that decade, UFV was finally given the funding to build, but by then the university was looking towards the old CFB Chilliwack lands, and the decision was made to hold off for a continued on page 13 Kim Isaac University Librarian 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: Patti Wilson Kim Isaac Heather Compeau Mary-Anne MadDougall Colleen Bell Lisa Morry Feedback? maryanne.macdougall@ufv.ca heather.compeau@ufv.ca Thanks to librarian Patti Wilson and library technicians Leslie Olsen and Betty Wierda for posing in the new Chilliwack campus library in the photo on the cover of this issue. Also thanks to librarian Brenda Philip for letting us use a picture of her readying the Chilliwack library collection for our move to Canada Education Park. Inside Library Connections 3 4 American History in Video and Eighteenth Century Collections Online 5 Electronic reading lists 8 Library move poster 9 Bookmyne 10 Gayle Ramsden 11 Berg Fashion Library 12 Mental Health Awareness display in Chilliwack 13 Dr. Shirley Lister memorial fund 8 Reference questions librarians get: How are 11 you going to move all those books? Chilliwack library: move planning and closure The Chilliwack library will be moving to Canada Education Park this June! We look forward to serving you at our new location on July 3. To move all the books, videos, computers and other items in the Chilliwack library, we will be closing from June 13 to July 2, 2012. During that time, regular library service will be available in the Abbotsford campus library. Here are some important things to note:  The Chilliwack library will be closed June 13 to July 2  The Chilliwack collection will not be available during this time, including video bookings and course reserves  Transfers between the Chilliwack and Abbotsford campus libraries will not be available during this time  Books may be returned through the exterior Chilliwack book drop, 45635 Yale Road, until July 3 Continued on page 5 Librarian Brenda Philip preparing for the move at the old Chilliwack campus library. Database News: American History in Video 4 and Eighteenth Century Collections Online Based on the English Short Title American History in Video provides the largest bibliography, Eightand richest collection of video available online for the eenth Century Colstudy of American history, with 2,000 hours and lections Online more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection (ECCO) contains allows students and researchers to analyze historical every significant events, and their presentation over time, through English-language commercial and governmental newsreels, archival and foreignfootage, public affairs footage, and important docu- language title printed mentaries. in the United KingCollections Librarian Patti Wilson Historical eras range from the Classical Period dom between the (1000 BCE-500 CE) to the 21 century. years 1701 - 1800. This collection contains more than 136,000 printed works comprising more than 26 million scanned facsimile 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, President Richard M. Nixon from History in Video Hume, Johnson, Paine, Pope, Historical subjects include: Reynolds, Rich English settlement of North America ardson, Rous American Revolution seau, Sheridan,  Post-revolutionary America Smith, Smollett,  Westward expansion Sterne, Swift, and  Antebellum America Voltaire. As well,  Women's suffrage movement rare works from  U.S. civil war lesser known auBri sh feminist writer Mary Wollstone World War I thors are included. cra from Eighteenth Century Collec World War II Use ECCO to ons Online  Cold War research the  Civil Rights movement history of most disciplines, including geography, Brit Vietnam conflict ish and world history, exploration, political science,  Space Exploration social reform, business and economics, medicine, science, technology, literature and theatre, religion, American History in Video is available from our philosophy, law, music and fine arts. Research Databases Gateway, and title records will For more information, call Patti Wilson at local soon appear in our Library catalogue. 4277. By Patti Wilson Electronic Reading Lists: Course pack evalua on 5 By Patti Wilson Advantages Did you know that many of your course readings,  UFV has already particularly for scholarly journal articles, are availapaid licensing ble in UFV’s electronic journals collection? The UFV fees for access Library staff recently analyzed course pack logs, to this content. and found hundreds of our full text articles were unStudents do not necessarily included in course packs. have to duplicate The UFV Library is offering a service to create this payment in electronic reading lists for your courses. the form of royalWe can create persistent links to our licensed or ty fees. Collections Librarian Patti Wilson open access journal, magazine and newspaper con-  Additional readtent, to e-books, or to freely available web docuings can be added at any time throughout the ments, such as government reports. Students can semester. click on the link to access the course reading.  Students can access the readings from any These links will work from off-campus. computer, both on and off campus Process Limitations  Instructors can email their course readings lists  We are not arranging to digitize and link to print to the UFV library. We will add persistent links to book chapters. all readings available electronically, if possible.  Not all journals are available in UFV’s licensed  The list will be emailed back to the instructor. collection.  You may then use the document in Blackboard,  Please allow adequate processing time. myUFV, as an email handout to students, or on The Electronic Reading List request form is a course web page. available at: http://www.ufv.ca/library/faculty/  A second option is to have us prepare an elecreserves/ereadings.htm tronic course reserves page within the UFV LiFor more information, contact Patti Wilson at lobrary catalogue. cal 4277. Chilliwack campus library closing June 13 to July 2 Continued from page 3  Please get your requests for video bookings in early. Call Heather LeGood at 604-864-4667, use the            video bookings form here: video bookings, or visit the Abbotsford library For course reserves during the closure, please call Carol Konkle at 604-504-7441, ext. 4218 or visit the Abbotsford library. See the course reserves form here: course reserves. For Inter-library loans during the closure, please call Paula Brennan at 604-864-4678 or visit the Abbotsford library. See the inter-library loans page here: Inter-library loans. For student computers, please visit the Abbotsford library or computer labs For study space, please visit the Abbotsford campus For reference service, call the Abbotsford library at 604-854-4545 or use this reference request form. For circulation service, see this page or call the Abbotsford library at 604-854-4545 For all other questions, please call or visit the Abbotsford library For links to all library locations: click here: http://www.ufv.ca/library/contact_us/Library_Locations.htm For library services and policies click here: http://www.ufv.ca/library/services_policies.htm Our new address will be: 45190 Caen Avenue, Chilliwack, BC, Canada V2R 0N3 Check this website for updates: http://www.ufv.ca/library/exhibits/wearemoving.htm Images of the new Chilliwack library at Canada Educa on Park 7 The Chilliwack Library is Moving Summer 2012 The Chilliwack library will be closed June 13 to July 2 to move to Canada Education Park! We look forward to serving you at our new location on July 3. Closure: To move all the books, videos, computers and other items in the Chilliwack library, we will be closing from June 13 to July 2, 2012. During that time, regular library service will be available at the Abbotsford campus library. Our new address will be: 45190 Caen Avenue, Chilliwack, BC, Canada V2R 0N3 8 The Mobile Library: BookMyne for Smartphones by Colleen Bell What could you do if you had access to the UFV Library while on the go? With BookMyne, you could scan a barcode while browsing your local bookstore and check to see if the UFV Library has it, then save it to retrieve later or even place a hold on it. Or you could remember, at the last minute, that book that’s due today, and renew it on the spot – no need to find a computer. BookMyne also allows you to search the catalogue in more conventional ways (by title, author, keyword, or subject), access all the functions of your library ac- Home screen Details about a specific item (click on the > to see more loca on informa on) Typical results screen 97 count (due dates, fines, holds, and more), access e-books from your bookshelf (for participating e-book providers), and search bestseller lists for reading suggestions. BookMyne for the UFV Library is free and currently available for iPhones and Android devices from the respective app stores. So download it and give it a try. Gayle Ramsden: Fashion Design instructor’s international roots stretch to United Arab Emirates study tour on April 27 and planned lege now offers an associate deto arrive back just before the sumFashion Design Instructor Gayle gree in fashion design and has mer semester to get ready to teach achieved accreditation. Ramsden travelled to New York at FD 340 Fashion as art—Art as It sounds like an exotic experithe end of April as part of the Fashion Design study tour. This follows ence, even for someone who trav- fashion. And this is where the library’s new Berg fashion Design els as much as Gayle does. on last summer’s study tour Database factors in. in Paris, a stint developing “It’s truly amazing and curriculum in the United Arab it’s not just fashion,” Gayle Emirates, an adventure exsays. “It can open up new ploring textiles in India, and avenues in English, history, volunteering in Kenya. theatre, art history, anthroTravel informs Gayle’s pology and sociology.” teaching at UFV, where she The new Berg database started as a sessional when seems like it would be a we were still Fraser Valley perfect match for students College, and compliments and others interested in her interests in textile texfashion design and theatre tures and working to promote costuming, but English, hisindependence for women. tory and sociology? Travel fits in with Gayle’s “Absolutely,” Gayle says. role as a member of the “People are going to be Global Development Instidrawn to this. You talk tute, an interdisciplinary orabout clothing in plays, in ganization, based on the UFV Fashion Design Instructor Gayle Ramsden in Abu Dhabi fiction. If you’re writing a United Nations’ Millennium period novel, you have to goals. The Global Development In Kenya, Gayle volunteered know what people wore. Economic Institute brings UFV’s efforts to furhelping a young woman, who had times, what’s going on in the world, ther student and faculty research, inherited a tailoring shop, raise her technology; all these things affect create international partnerships business profile and expand her culture and dress. It’s going to and promote economic justice unmarket. Gayle has toured textiles in make people think about clothing. der one roof. As a GDI member, India and worked with women in Some of the Berg titles we had in Gayle helped develop a fashion rural areas, helping them to imthe library already include the “Joy design curriculum for Al Khawarizprove their livelihoods. And she has of Crafts.” That could be visual arts, mi International College in the Unittoured Paris, most recently last art history, cultural anthropology or ed Arab Emirates. summer, when the fashion design cultural politics.” As part of this project, Gayle, department partnered with art his“Under the term dress, there’s who has a master’s degree in Adtory and modern languages to lead body modification and tapestry, tatministrative Leadership and Currica UFV study tour. toos, painting, foot binding, moko, ulum and Instruction, travelled to This summer Gayle travelled to and piercing. It could be Dubai and Abu Dhabi where the New York for the fashion design Continued on page 11 program is established. That col- By Lisa Morry Berg Fashion Library Resources for Fashion, Theatre, English, History and more 11 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 Tapestry, tattoos, binding, piercing, painting Continued from page 6 pertinent to a class on indigenous culture and you find it in the fashion collection.” Gayle says she thinks the Berg database is “going to open the door to critical thought on fashion and textiles within our culture. “There are wonderful visual resources you can look at—even body armour. It’s phenomenal. The images are right at your fingertips. There’s an academic essay at the bottom and added references.” “For example,” she says “looking at Vivienne Westwood, you can see the references and resources. I can see myself looking at things and going off track.” The Berg Fashion Database includes the 10-volume Encyclopedia of world dress, which has 1,600 images from the Victoria and Albert Museum and 600 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Costume, taking visitors around the world of fashion. But you don’t have to get on a plane. Click here for access. Mental Health Awareness display: 12 Resources in Chilliwack prove popular Poster outside the Chilliwack campus library has mirrors where faces are cut out. By Lisa Morry The library thanks Diane Nosaty of Abbotsford Educational Technology Services for taking the phoRecognizing that one in five of us will experience tos and designing the poster and our anonymous mental illness in our lifetime, according to the Canamodels who posed for the poster. dian Mental Health Association, and the basic fact This exhibit ties in nicely with a display on autism, that all of us knows someone affected by mental illsuggested by TASK instructor Alyson Seale. We ness, we wanted to create a display highlighting placed some information about April 2, Autism mental health resources in our libraries. Awareness Day, on a bulletin down the hall from the Long before we completed the poster, we had a Chilliwack campus library. table of mental health books and videos set up in the While autism does not affect as many people as Chilliwack campus library. Without a sign or other mental illnesses, it does affect one in 110 children indication that this was a special theme, these library and one in 70 boys, according to Alyson. At her sugresources were rapidly borrowed. We filled the table gestion, the display highlights positive aspects of again, and then again with books and videos on anoautism, which some speculate affects highly sucrexia, depression, schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, cessful people in adaptive ways. anxiety, psychiatry, the history of mental illness and For research guides relating to mental illness and more. autism, see the Psychology libguide here: http:// Because there is so much stigma attached to libguides.ufv.ca/Psychology and the Social Work and mental illness, we removed the faces from the 4’ Human Resources libguide here: http:// high by 8’ wide poster and replaced them with mirlibguides.ufv.ca/SocialWork. For a list of library and rors, so people passing by would see themselves in other mental health resources, check out our Mental these figures. We also wanted to make sure that the Health Awareness display page: http://www.ufv.ca/ UFV students, staff and faculty members who posed library/exhibits/mentalhealthawareness.htm. were not falsely identified as having mental illnesses. Dr. Shirley Lister: memorial fund tribute 913 Shirley Lister was an amazing friend, colleague, educator, mother and daughter. She willingly shared her passion for teaching, care for her students, and love for her family through kindness and compassion. She was an accomplished athlete who ran marathons, competed internationally in cross country skiing, and consistently ranked in the top three in athletic competitions. Shirley also rowed with the Thunder Strokers Dragon Boat Team and could be found most weekends skiing at Manning Park. Shirley’s academic and professional accomplishments were many. She completed a Bachelor of Physical Education in 1980, a Master of Science in Adapted Physical Education in 1985, both at the University of Alberta, a Bachelor of Education at the University of Ottawa in 1989, and her PhD in Educational Psychology in 1999 at the University of Alberta. Shirley joined the University of the Fraser Valley Teacher Education Program in 2008. Shirley made many positive contributions to the lives of students and colleagues at UFV. She served on the Racism and Anti-Racism Network, Research Ethics Board, Graduate Studies Committee, Library Advisory Board and Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee. She published in the areas of inclusion, special education and educational psychology. Shirley will be remembered most for her strong advocacy for persons with disabilities as she was a constant champion of social justice and inclusive educational approaches. She had an infectious smile and always greeted her colleagues and students with radiant enthusiasm. To honour this unique woman, UFV, with the very gen- Dr. Shirley Lister erous support of her family, is establishing the Dr. Shirley Lister Memorial Fund for TEP Library Resources. This fund will benefit many students and faculty and is a fitting tribute to Dr. Shirley Lister’s legacy. Fulfillment of a 20‐year‐old dream comes true continued from page 2 met students’ needs. move of the entire campus. Against all the odds stacked against them, Library During the almost 20 years since the first plans for staff found many creative ways to make the space a new Chilliwack library were envisioned, Chilliwack pleasant, welcoming, attractive and functional. I library staff have had to find ways to cope with a would like to acknowledge our Chilliwack staff and space that was increasingly inadequate for the needs thank them for their cheerful, uncomplaining, creative of UFV students and faculty. commitment to making that space work for all these The growing print collection slowly pushed almost years. I am so happy that they will finally have a new all student study space out of the library, but fortuand beautiful space to share with UFV students, facnately the “old cafeteria” area just outside the library ulty, staff and community users.