The top tips for UBC Library appear in the latest issue of UBC Reports, “Back to School and In the Cloud” (UBC Reports | Vol. 57 | No. 9 | Sep. 1, 2011). The item appears below, and can also be found on the UBC Reports website.
Top 10 tips for connecting with UBC Library, without setting foot in the stacks
| 10 | Learn to be a better student with Study Toolkits—topics include time management, note-taking and exam prep |
| 9 | Boost your academic endeavors with tools, spaces, workshops or sit on the Student Library Advisory Council at the Okanagan’s Learning Commons |
| 8 | Call on the Library Robot (aka the Automated Storage and Retrieval System) to fetch a book, a journal, a map or a vinyl record on the Vancouver campus |
| 7 | Find research and teaching materials, including 28,000 retrospective UBC theses and dissertations on cIRcle, UBC’s information repository—or contribute your own |
| 6 | Peruse letters by Charles Darwin and Florence Nightingale in the ever-growing digital collections |
| 5 | Tour the sacred sites of Burma or peer into the psychology of gambling guided by Webcast lectures |
| 4 | Hear Canadian writers Timothy Taylor, Matthew J. Trafford and Linda Besner read from their works this month in the Robson Reading Series |
| 3 | Visit the historic Chung Collection and put yourself in the shoes of an early immigrant to B.C. from China |
| 2 | Read what more than 20 UBC librarians are saying in the blogsphere |
| 1 | Make UBC Library part of your social network on Twitter and Facebook |