World Health Day @YUL April 7, 2011

Posted on April 6, 2011 by William Denton

The Libraries are chock full o’ resources on Drug Resistance, the theme chosen for World Health Day 2011.

(The image above links back to the World Health Organization website)

Here’s some online resources from YUL:

..and books, government documents

The no-nonsense guide to world health (Usdin, Shereen )
Naturally dangerous : surprising facts about food, health, and the environment (Collman, James Paddock.)
Introduction to global health (Jacobsen, Kathryn H. )
Communicable disease control in emergencies : a field manual (Connolly, M. A.)
Recent advances in immunization (Andrus, Jon Kim)
Communicable disease control handbook (Hawker, Jeremy)
World Health Organization (Burci, Gian Luca)
Genomics and world health : report of the Advisory Committee on Health Research. (World Health Organization, Advisory Committee on Health Research)
World health and disease (Gray, Alastair)

Oxford Scholarship Online: new ebook titles!

Posted on March 17, 2011 by William Denton

York University Libraries recently purchased several new updates to our existing Oxford Scholarship Online collections, in disciplines ranging from Classical Studies to Literature to Psychology. To view these titles, log in to OSO at http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler32196, click on one of the subjects to the left and then click on “View new
title information.”

Oxford Scholarship Online combines Oxford University Press’ core scholarly books in 18 subject areas: Business and Management, Biology, Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Politics, Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology, Religion and
Social Work. Along with its redesigned look, Oxford Scholarship Online offers advanced search capabilities, keywords and abstracts on the book and chapter level, DOIs, reference linking from bibliographies and footnotes, and more.

Canada in WWI: Meeting the challenges and dilemmas of the Great War

Posted on November 29, 2010 by William Denton

A new month-long display at Scott Library (located in the first floor alcove by the entrance) Focuses on how Canadians fared during World War 1 and we discovered just how rich the resources are here at York concerning this period.

The exhibit is divided into 3 sections. This week, it’s

Canada in WWI – Part 1 :
How we met the challenges and dilemmas of the Great War.

Expecting to locate a number of texts and pamphlets from official agencies, such as government documents and political organizations, we were delighted to uncover such a wide range of sources. We came across many photographs, pamphlets and books and during the first week of the display we put together resources dealing with the politics, our government documents, hospitals and our soldiers (one of the more moving photos of a young conscript looking at the inside of his hat in which he placed a picture of his sweetheart)

We hope you have an opportunity to see the display and remember there will be Part 2 : Change and Continuity in Canadian Life” and Part 3: The End of War and Present Day Remembrances”.

If you have any comments or questions, please contact Dana Craig or Peter Duerr.

Peter and Dana would like to thank: Trudy Bodak, Kathy Elder, John Thomson and Lorraine Toth. Special thanks go to Archives and Special Collections staff: Michael Moir, Suzanne Dubeau, Julia Holland and Anna St. Onge.

Resources: The Causes and Human Cost of War

Posted on November 10, 2010 by William Denton

For Remembrance Day, here’s a sample of our recent acquisitions: print, DVD and online, plus a wealth of personal correspondence from our Archives.
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TRIAL: Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography Online

Posted on March 30, 2010 by William Denton

York University Libraries has arranged a trial to the Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography Online.

Access the trial here: http://dib.cambridge.org

The trial will run for 30 days.

The Dictionary of Irish Biography is a collaborative project between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy, involving 700 contributors and spanning 9,000 lives. The Dictionary includes the lives of Irish men and women who made a significant contribution in Ireland and abroad, as well as those born overseas who had noteworthy careers in Ireland from James Ussher to James Joyce, St Patrick to Patrick Pearse, St Brigit to Maud Gonne MacBride, Shane O’Neil to Eamon de Valera, Edward Carson to Bobby Sands.