The Linguistics Reading Room in TFS 224 houses a unique collection of books, journals, working papers from several different universities, theses, unpublished manuscripts, and audio tape materials that function as valuable research resources for students and faculty in the department. In addition to being a stimulating place to browse for interesting research material, it's also a great place to study!

The Reading Room Collection

The eMac in the Reading Room is set up to search the catalogue of holdings. The Reading Room catalogue is not yet complete (this is one of our current undergraduate RA projects!), but there are more than a 1000 entries at this point, and this number is growing weekly. You can browse the catalogue contents on the KOHA web site. Simply log-on to the student account and follow the directions in the documents folder.

Reading Room Access

The Linguistics Reading Room is accessible at any time to Linguistics Grad students (each of whom is issued a key). It is also open to all Undergraduate students for 6 hours a week during the academic term when the Linguistics Reading Room Assistant is working there.

Opening Hours

The current schedule, effective until the end of April 2011, for Undergrad access is:
Mondays 11:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Wednesdays 11:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Thursdays 1:00 am - 3:00 pm

Usage Policies

Please note: This is not a circulating collection. No materials are to be taken out of the Reading Room. There is a photocopier in the room, and materials can be copied right there - with due care please for the fragile state of some of the manuscripts.

When you take material off the shelf or out of a filing cabinet, please note exactly where it came from, and return it to its original home when you have finished with it. Thanks!

Please be sure that all windows are closed and that the Reading Room door is locked if you are the last person to leave the room.

Contacts

If you need help finding or using any of these resources, please contact:

Linguistics Reading Room Undergraduate Assistant
2010-2011: Catherine Stewart (c.stewart13@hotmail.com)

Linguistics Reading Room Faculty Supervisor
Michael Rochemont (rochemon@interchange.ubc.ca)

Linguistics Department Administrator
Edna Dharmaratne (edharmar@interchange.ubc.ca; 604-822 -4256)

If you would like to use any of the Audio Resources that are in the Linguistics Reading Room, please contact:

Linguistics Department Technical Support
Masaru Kiyota (lingtech.ubc@gmail.com)