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Collection Spotlight: New Books!
The latest UBC Education Library Collection Spotlight is up!
Our feature wall, located on the main level of the branch, is displaying “New Books for March 2022.”
Come by and browse our newest Picture Books and Young Adult Novel arrivals.
Feel free to browse our new books online as well.
UBC Climate Emergency Week: Feb 14-18
UBC Education Library is participating in UBC Climate Change Week by dedicating our latest Collection Spotlight to climate change and the environment. Visit and browse the display located on the main level breezeway:
For more information regarding the week’s events, please visit: sustain.ubc.ca/events/climate-emergency-week
A selection of online resources available from UBC Library related to climate change and the environment is also available:
Rebuilding the Earth by Mark Everard
Highlights humanity’s interdependence with our planet’s ecosystems
Brings together widely applicable lessons on positive regenerative change
Advocates for practical and integrated sustainable development
50 climate questions: a blizzard of blistering facts
by Peter Christie; illustrated by Ross Kinnaird.
Looks at the history of climate change and its effects, from “snowball Earth” to carbon dioxide emissions.
Environmental protests
by Duchess Harris.
As people began to see how pollution and industry could damage the environment, they began to seek change. This book explores the research that revealed how common practices harmed the environment, the events people held to raise awareness, and the tactics protesters use to protect nature and change laws.
Climate change and the voiceless: protecting future generations, wildlife, and natural resources
by Randall S. Abate, Monmouth University.
Abate identifies the common vulnerabilities of the voiceless – future generations, wildlife, and natural resources – and demonstrates how the law can evolve to protect their interests more effectively. This book will appeal to anyone interested in how the law can mitigate the effects of climate change on those who stand to lose the most.
What we know about climate change
by Kerry Emanuel
A renowned climatologist assesses current scientific understanding of climate change and sounds a call to action.
A people’s curriculum for the Earth: teaching climate change and the environmental crisis
by Bigelow, Bill; Swinehart, Tim
A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis.
What is climate?
by Bobbie Kalman.
Introduces the concept of climate, including the four seasons; describes how it differs all around the world, from tropical to arctic; and explains drastic climate change and how it is affecting the Earth.
Collection Spotlight: Young Adult Fiction
Our most recent Collection Spotlight is up! “Young Adult Fiction” is a gathering of popular, classic, and current UBC Education Library titles in the YA Literature genre. Find these books in the breezeway area of our branch.
Just a few of the titles:
As many nows as I can get / Shana Youngdahl.
PZ7.1 .Y8124 As 2019 Great Reads.
Internment / Samira Ahmed.
PZ7.1 .A345 In 2019
Red at the bone / Jacqueline Woodson.
PS3573 .O64524 R43 2019 Great Reads.
Booked / by Kwame Alexander.
PZ7.5.A44 Bk 2019
Pet / Akwaeke Emezi.
PZ7.1 .E474 Pt 2019 Great Reads.
We are okay: a novel / by Nina LaCour.
PZ7.L13577 Wr 2019
Like a love story / Abdi Nazemian.
PZ7.1 .N378 Lk 2019 Great Reads
Dear Haiti, love Alaine / Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite.
PZ7.1 .M678 De 2019
Ghosts / David A. Robertson.
PZ7 .R544725 Gh 2019
Other words for home / Jasmine Warga.
PZ7.5 .W28 Ot 2019
A girl like that / Tanaz Bhathena.
PZ7.1 .B5324 Gr 2018
Call of the wraith / Kevin Sands.
PZ7.1 .S26 Cl 2018
Tilly and the Crazy Eights / Monique Gray Smith.
PS8613 .R3894 T55 2018 Great Reads.
Aftermath / Kelley Armstrong.
PZ7.A73369 Af 2018
Nice try, Jane Sinner / Lianne Oelke.
PS8629.E54 N53 2018
The agony of Bun O’Keefe / Heather Smith.
PZ7 .S649133 Ag 2017
A conjuring of light / V.E. Schwab.
PS3619 .C4848 C66 2017 Great Reads.
The hundredth queen / Emily R. King.
PZ7.1.K5854 Hn 2017
Faculty/Instructors: Please submit your course syllabus by mid-November for the Winter term.
It’s getting to be that time of the year again for faculty and instructors: time to start thinking about submitting your course syllabus in advance for the Winter term!
In order to have enough processing time to clear copyright and make the material available, library staff greatly appreciate syllabus submissions by mid-November to be ready for January.
Simply email your syllabus to syllabus.service@ubc.ca as a Word or PDF document.
You may check the status of your requests by logging into LOCR and accessing your course shell.