Trial Database: Counseling and Therapy in Video
Counseling and Therapy in Video is a collection in the Alexander Street Press *Critical Video Editions®* series, containing more than 300 hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. The videos are designed for training and continuing education, providing a firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works contains more than 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions-almost 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, together with 25,000 pages of major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full-text of the sessions themselves. All accounts are non-fiction, delivered in the first person and, where possible, contemporaneous.
Trial ends March 30, 2010.
Olympic Update
Douglas College has
scheduled changes during this winter semester to give students the opportunity to experience the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Classes will be suspended from February 15 to the 27, but the library will continue to maintain
limited open hours.
Hours
Both campus libraries will be open:
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10am-3pm
- Closed weekends
- Regular hours resume on Monday, March 1st.
Online Services
With the modified library hours, our online services will become even more important to you.
Ask a Librarian
While the physical library may be closed, our
AskAway online reference service will continue to be available for an extended period of time. Chat with a Librarian in real time to get the reference help you need.
Sunday - Thursday 10am - 9pm
Friday & Saturday 11am - 5pm
Your other option is also to
email a Reference Librarian directly or
submit a question through an
online form.
Trial Database: Naxos Video Library
Naxos Video Library brings you an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Over 250 full-length videos are available.
Trial ends February 1, 2010.
Renovations in the Library
We're donning our hardhats! Renovations to the New Westminster campus Library begin Monday, December 21st and continue through January. The Electronic Library Facility (ELF) will be closed for the duration, but if you're looking for an available computer, try the 5th and 6th floors. If you're an instructor and would like to book a Library Research class, please contact
Lisa Sim or
Patti Romanko.
Our collection is also temporarily moving around a bit. You'll find the CDs at the back of the library in the AV lab sitting on shelving trucks for the time being, and the LP records have been moved entirely into storage. If there's something you need though, just ask at the front counter and we'll retrieve it for you.
Lots of noise initially, but more student space in the end!
End of Semester Information
Please remember to return all Library materials borrowed and pay any Library fines you have owing by Friday, December 18, 2009. Students will not be able to access their grades or transcripts and their registration will be suspended until all materials have been returned or paid for. Please check your
Library Account to see if you have any outstanding materials!
Paper, Electronic and now... Books of Flesh and Blood!
Luc Lang gives a demonstration to a borrower on the art of working with stained glass. |
Borrowers attracted by the mask are treated to a talk on indigenous art exhibits by Dan Lepsoe. |
Douglas College Living Library is hoping no one is left on the shelf when it hosts the third "live" event in the TriCities on Thursday, November 26.
The event, which runs from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Douglas College Library Coquitlam campus, is co-hosted by Coquitlam Public Library which has provided some of the books.
"We have some great people volunteering as books so we hope lots of people will come to the David Lam Campus Library and check them out," says Carole Compton-Smith, director of library services at Douglas College.
"Books" can be borrowed for up to 20 minutes to answer questions about their areas of expertise.
Some of the books at the November 26 event have titles, including Kim Longmuir,
Picture This, on pictographs of BC's interior, Mardi Joyce,
What's Your Sign on astrology and Luc Lang,
Glazier: A Glass Act, on the art of stained glass. Others are still coming up with their titles but include Dan Ledsoe on organizing exhibits of fine art, Dr. Abdul Hassam on Islamic religion and culture, Hudson Andrews on psychiatric nursing and Pastor Dave Warkentin on religion and culture.
The Douglas College Living Library takes place on Thursday, November, 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the David Lam Campus, 1250 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam. Admission is free, everyone is welcome. Parking is available either underground or on Pinetree Way. For information, call 604-777-6173.
Double-sided vs. Single-sided Printing: an update on printing changes
Did you click on the print icon and wind up with a double-sided document? Did you really want it to be single-sided?
In an effort to go green, the College has set up the libraries and computer labs to default to double-sided printing (referred to as duplexing). Students are charged per sheet, potentially doubling the 300-page printing limit if one always prints double-sided.
But, sometimes you may still want to print single-sided. Here's how:
- Select the Office Button in the upper left corner (the round ball).
- Select Print, then Print again. The Print dialogue box opens.
- Select the Properties button in the upper right corner. The Document Properties dialogue box opens.
- Uncheck the box beside Print on both sides.
- Click on OK, then OK the next dialogue box as well.
- Your document will now print single-sided. This printing option will remain until you either manually change it back, or log off the computer.
You'll find these instructions and a handy reference card beside each printer.
More information on printing.
Encore: a new way to search!
Through a single search box our new library catalogue,
Encore, will connect you to everything you've come to expect from our Classic Catalogue, and then display that information in ways that are intuitive, relevant and very familar to Douglas College users. You'll find faceted search results, tag clouds, community reviews, did you mean...?, recently added suggestions and relevance ranking.
If you liked searching our
Classic Catalogue, don't despair, we're also keeping that option available for more advanced searching. You may find you'll enjoy the new Encore so much that it changes the way you search our library resources.
» Connect to Encore now! 
