Piping Up

Author: Michael Blackwood
Title: New Music Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde  (video)
Publisher & where & when published: Michael Blackwood Productions
Where you saw this item mentioned:
http://www.michaelblackwoodproductions.com/md_newmusic.php
Your affiliation: SFU Alumna/Alumnus

A. Thank you for contacting the SFU Library with your purchase suggestion. We normally purchase films for the collection only when they are requested by professors or instructors in association with courses and areas of research. If this request is for a class you are taking, please let me know. Otherwise, I would recommend contacting your public library with this request.

Best regards,

Baharak Yousefi
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Head, Fraser Valley real Estate Board Academic Library

Q. I requested a book through interlibrary loan and I got an email a few days ago that the book is ready for pickup, but I am away right now and will not be able to pick it up until Aug 31. Would it be possible for me to pick it up at that time?

A. Yes you can pick up your interlibrary loan book on August 31. However, the book is due back on September 5 – you could keep it for a few extra days until, say, September 7 or 10th if you’d like.
Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards,
Don Taylor
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Donald Taylor
Interim Head, Acquisitions and Serials
Ass’t Head Access Services and IR Coordinator

Author: Marodsilton Muborakshoeva
Title: Islam and Higher Education: Concepts, Challenges, and Opportunities
Publisher & where & when published: Routledge (978-0-415-68750-8)
Where you saw this item mentioned: Publisher Website
Your affiliation: SFU Faculty

A. Thanks very much for recommending this book for purchase. I’d be happy to order a copy of “Islam and Higher Education: Concepts, Challenges, and Opportunities” once it’s available (looks like it will be released for sale on Aug. 30th). You should receive an email once this book’s arrived at the Belzberg Library and is available to be checked out.

Best wishes, Hope
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Hope Power
Education Liaison Librarian
W.A.C. Bennett Library (Burnaby)

Author: Joseph Dodds
Title: Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos: Complexity Theory,
Deleuze|Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis
Publisher & where & when published: Routledge (Sep 13 2011)
Where you saw this item mentioned:
http://www.amazon.ca/Psychoanalysis-Ecology-Edge-Chaos-Complexity/dp/0415666120/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345081222&sr=1-1
Your affiliation: SFU Graduate Student

A. We already have two copies of the book that you suggested for purchase “Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos”http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b5851571~S1a. You can use the ‘Request Item’ button at the top of the record to have a copy sent to Belzberg library, your preferred location.

Best regards,
Ivana
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Ivana Niseteo, MA, MLIS
Collections Librarian
Liaison Librarian for Linguistics, French, Humanities, French Cohort in Arts

Q. I would like to request two inter-library loans for two books which I will need on the 3rd of September. However, I am not in Canada until the 2nd of  September. Could you please tell me for how many days the library keeps the delivered inter-library books? How could I deal with this issue? Thank you.

A. The Library keeps interlibrary loan books on the pick-up/hold shelf for the length of the loan period. So, for example, if a book arrived on August 25 and was due to be returned on September 15, it would stay on the pick-up shelf waiting to be picked up by the patron until September 15. Due to your not being at SFU until September 2, you should probably wait until August 23 or 24 at the earliest before making your request, as interlibrary loan books that come from Western Canadian libraries arrive between 2-7 days of being requested.
If your request is for a more harder to obtain item, it will take longer to arrive as we’ll have to go farther afield and mediate the request (have humans actually search for it rather it being an automated request).
Please let me know if you have any questions.

Don
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Donald Taylor
Interim Head, Acquisitions and Serials
Ass’t Head Access Services and IR Coordinator

Q. Would the library please consider purchasing the following books?
Title: The Introvert Advantage and How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
Author: Marti Olsen Laney Psy.D.
Paperback: 330 pages
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; 1 edition (February 1, 2002)

A. Two titles that you requested The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World and Quiet: The Power of Introverts are actually out of scope of the SFU Collections Policy as they both belong to the General/Popular category, but I have forwarded your request to our Psychology librarian for her consideration.

Best regards,
Ivana
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Ivana Niseteo, MA, MLIS
Collections Librarian
Liaison Librarian for Linguistics, French, Humanities, French Cohort in Arts

We were using a history text from the SFU Bennett library for basic reading yesterday and there is some note we like to mention. It is not clear if the library keeps a record of all its holdings in check but the material we used did not seem to be a genuine copy of the text. The fact that we had used a former edition of the material suggest the copy on hand is of lesser quality. The new edition shows much inconsistency in style and contents, across many sections. Do not the library would verify that it is keeping it collections in a more secure condition.

A. I am sorry to hear that the library does not have the latest edition of the text you were using for your history class.  Unfortunately, we do not normally buy textbooks unless requested by a professor, so it is quite possible that we do not always have the latest editions of textbooks. However, if the book you were using with your group was not a textbook, I would ask you to please send me the title and author’s name, and we may consider purchasing a new edition. It may have also happened that a copy of the new edition went missing from our collection at some point in the past. Please send me more information about the book, and I will be happy to take a look at it.

Best regards,
Ivana
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Ivana Niseteo, MA, MLIS
Collections Librarian
Liaison Librarian for Linguistics, French, Humanities, French Cohort in Arts

Author: R. M. Matthijs Cornelissen, Girishwar Misra, Suneet Varma
Title: Foundations of Indian Psychology Volume 1 and 2
Publisher & where & when published: Pearson Education, India (??)
Where you saw this item mentioned:
http://pearson.vrvbookshop.com/book/foundations-indian-psychology-volume-1-2-r-m-matthijs-cornelissen/7308501730843
Your affiliation: SFU Graduate Student

A.  Thanks very much for the suggestion for purchase.  We will order if for the collection and you will receive an email notification once it is ready and available for use.

Moninder Bubber
Liaison Librarian

Author: Daniel C. Harris.
Title: Quantitative chemical analysis
Publisher & where & when published: W.H. Freeman and Co., 2010
Where you saw this item mentioned: Required for Chem 215
Your affiliation: SFU Undergraduate Student

A. Unfortunately, we do not normally buy textbooks unless requested by a professor, so at this time we are not considering purchasing a new edition of “Quantitative Chemical Analysis”. Students are encouraged to buy their own textbooks, but we do have some older editions of this book that you may want to borrow.
Regards,
Ivana
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Ivana Niseteo, MA, MLIS
Collections Librarian
Liaison Librarian for Linguistics, French, Humanities, French Cohort in Arts

Author: Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Hsuan-Tien Lin
Title: Learning From Data
Publisher & where & when published: AMLBook & CA, US & March 27, 2012
Where you saw this item mentioned:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1600490069/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=
Your affiliation: SFU Graduate Student

A. Thank you for your suggestion. We will order a copy of “Learning From Data” by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa et al. ‘on demand’ for you, and you will be notified via email once it becomes available for pick-up. You may find it useful to know that this course of 18 lectures is fully available on Youtube http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html .

Cheers,
Ivana
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Ivana Niseteo, MA, MLIS
Collections Librarian
Liaison Librarian for Linguistics, French, Humanities, French Cohort in Arts