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Dear Colleagues on AskAway,
Thanks everyone in advance for your support with our biology undergraduates. We are starting to see BIOL 140 students at our in-person desks and we anticipate they will be visiting AskAway soon too!
The BIOL 140 assignment this term is on freshwater and terrestrial organisms. Students are looking for information about their organism, its habitat and abiotic factors that affect its growth, survival, reproduction and behaviour. A good place to start is the course page for terrestrial organisms: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=537 or freshwater organism: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=145
In addition to a catalogue search, we recommend the students check our reserve room for books and have created a guide “Biology 140: Quick Guide to Finding Books in Reference & Reserve at Woodward” to help them find the general call number range for their organism (This guide is linked from the course page). To find the journal literature, we recommend they use Zoological Record and suggest searching for the common and scientific names for the organism – narrowed by terms such as habitat OR ecology OR behavio*r. If a student is not finding very much information about their specific species such as Tribolium confusum, try a broader search for the genus Tribolium. I have posted on the course pages “Recording of Jan 20th Research Class How to Find the Best Resources for your BIOL 140 Research Assignment” to show the students step-by-step how to find the research for this assignment.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks again for your support!
Kind regards,
Katherine
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Katherine Miller, MLIS
Reference Librarian, Natural Sciences
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