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Suggestion for New Title Purchase: Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online

Published by Dipa Barua
Author: Rosemary J. Coombe, Darren Wershler, and Martin Zeilinger
Title: Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online
Publisher & where & when published: University of Toronto Press
If you wish to be notified when the item is ready for you, please select a pick-up location: Bennett Library (SFU Burnaby)
Your affiliation: SFU Staff

A: You will be glad to know that this book is on its way to the Library as we have a standing order for books published by Canadian University Presses.

Troubles Accessing MIT Sloan E-Journal

Published by Dipa Barua
I am trying to access an article on MIT Sloan e-Journal. The first article (the discipline of creativity) was fine, the second article (The dandelion principle) asked for subscription, even though I went through SFU proxy.
Could you please look into this? Thank you.

Suggestion for New Title Purchase: Chimurenga Magazine

Published by Dipa Barua

Author: Ntone Edjabe
Title: Chimurenga Magazine
Publisher & where & when published: Cape Town, South Africa
Where you saw this item mentioned: On the Internet
If you wish to be notified when the item is ready for you, please select a pick-up location: Bennett Library (SFU Burnaby)
Your affiliation: SFU Undergraduate Student

A: Thanks for your email.  Your request was forwarded to me as the liaison librarian for contemporary art at SFU because this was deemed to be a arts & culture magazine.

Questions about Factiva

Published by Dipa Barua

Q: Hello treasured SFU librarians.
This new journal database, Factiva, is impossible! I've been dumped onto it when searching a precise article, and it gives me a heap of irrelevant results. And often there is no alternative database available, even when, for example, the "Holdings" page states that the article is available through Lexis/Nexus.
Did the library subscribe to Factiva and cancel other databases? Is it possible to go back to the former system? It is putting a crimp in my research.
Thanks!
Which library?  Web site / online resources

Suggestion for New Title Purchase: Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive

Published by Dipa Barua

Author: Alana Kumbier
Title: Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive
Publisher & where & when published: Litwin Books, Sacramento CA
If you wish to be notified when the item is ready for you, please select a pick-up location: Bennett Library (SFU Burnaby)

A: Thanks very much for the suggestion.  I have ordered it now and once it arrives and has been processed, you will get an email and be able to borrow it.

Thanks
Moninder

Suggestion for New Title Purchase: Fundamentals of Multimedia

Published by Dipa Barua

Author: Li, Ze-Nian; Drew Mark S.; Liu, Jiangchuan
Title: Fundamentals of Multimedia, 2nd ed. The lib. has elec. access, but this is an SFU-authored book and shd. be on the shelf as well
Publisher & where & when published: Springer, 2014
Where you saw this item mentioned: I am one of the authors.
Your affiliation: SFU Faculty