Creme Fraiche!

We had some creme fraiche left over from a recipe for Eggs Florentine from Gordon Ramsay's cook book and I wanted to know if there were any blogs on creme fraiche. Perhaps a recipe to use up the remaining amount would pop up! [Actually, if truth be told, my son had this delicious dinner of Eggs Florentine ready when I appeared home after working all day on the Robarts Reference Desk last Saturday. How lucky can a librarian get!]

I searched Google Blogs using "creme fraiche" as the search term and received more than 153,000 results. The Internet, and blogs in particular, are great places to find recipes because feedback (no pun intended) from people who have tried a recipe is often available. Also, a would-be cook can type in a list of ingredients on hand, and get recipe suggestions.

Bon appetit!

Tips on how to obtain actual psychological tests at York

Generally YUL does not collect commercial psychological tests (mental measurements) because they are tightly controlled by their publishers. Although the Mental Measurements Yearbooks can be helpful in identifying and reviewing commercial tests, the test contained within it are generally not accessible by undergraduates. However, there are a few ways to obtain actual tests at .

1) Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures

APA.: Washington, DC, 1974-2003. 8 vols. Call number: BF 431 D49 Scott Reference

Provides basic descriptive information about tests which appeared in scholarly psychology and education journals; “unpublished” here simply means not published commercially, and therefore generally freely available. Entries provide references to the journal source in which it was published. Use the cumulative index from the most recent volume for the entire set. There is a a separate title index next to the set on the shelf.

2) Psychology Resource Centre

Location: BSB 162B
The Psychology Resource Centre maintains a collection of 2400+ psychological tests. To see a list of tests in the Resource Centre, click here.

Please note: The Psychology Resource Centre is only open to psychology graduate students and 4th year undergraduate thesis students.

3) Compendia

Some tests have been compiled in published compendia. Many of these compendia are carried by the Library. The Psychology Resource Centre maintains an excellent online index to tests published in these compendia. If you identify a test in a compendium, check the library catalogue to find out if YUL owns the book. Please note that some compendia consist of a combination of abstracts and fully reproduced tests. The compendia index web site indexes both. Please read the fine print on the web site for information on each compendium publication to distinguish which are full text and which are not.

Most of the information in this post is on the "Guide to Psychological Tests" handout available at the Reference Desks.

RefWorks Help

If patrons require assistance with RefWorks beyond what you feel comfortable providing, please direct them to e-mail refworks@yorku.ca. This e-mail account is monitored regularly by various librarians; I would prefer not to have RefWorks problems e-mailed directly to me. The RefWorks e-mail address is on the Footnotes, Bibliographies, RefWorks webpage. However, if I'm around and available to help in person, feel free to continue to refer patrons to me.

Thanks,
Adam

Communications 1310 Assignment

Students doing this assignment are choosing their topics from a list. Here is a tip for one of the topics.

Topic: Canadian regulations regarding advertising to children
If you search the catalogue you will find a few items but most of these are out already, and I was not able to find much in periodical indexes on Canadian regulations. However, if you go to the website for the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, you will find some great documents. On their site search "advertising and children". You will find "The Broadcast Code for Advertising to Children" and other documents.
Mark

HUMA2190 - Germany Through the Ages

One requirement of the library assignment for this course is to find two articles in electronic format for which there are no print equivalents. I have been in contact with the professor regarding this issue and explained the difficult of verifying that something does not exist in print. She will accept citations for two articles in electronic format that do not have print equivalents in the York collection. Please see me (Adam) if you have any questions.

HIST 1050 Library Assignment

Most of you have encountered these students by now. While for the most part the assignment is pretty much straightforward, there are two vexing questions for which these hints might help:

1. Book on The Neighbors

The students are asked to find a book using or dealing with Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne Poland by Jan Gross. While Historical Abstracts may be used to answer the question, apparently the book was very controversial and there is in fact a work on it. Doing a subject search for "Gross Jan" will lead you to this item which meets the criteria for the assignment:

Polonsky, Antony and Joanna B. Michlic, eds. The Neighbours respond: the controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2004
DS 135 P62 J4458 2004

2. 1911 Census Question

The students are asked to retrieve information from the 1911 Census Returns. The PDFs are not searchable by family name so you will have to browse a bit to find them. To save time, this is what you should do:

1. Go to http://www.collectionscanada.ca
2. Select Canadian Genealogy Centre (middle right)
3. Select Databases tab (upper left)
4. Go to 1911 Census (halfway down page)
5. Perform search (instructions are on the assignment sheet)

The two family names you are looking for are Sylliboy and Holmes. Both are found on page 3 of the respective returns. Note: About half the residents of Whycocomagh Indian Reserve are named Sylliboy, be careful.

RefWorks Workshops

RefWorks workshops have been scheduled for Scott Library. Information is available at http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/Home/ResearchAndInstruction/citationmgmt/index.

Adam