Alexander Street Press

COPPUL has added the following two Alexander Street Press products to its inventory of database subscriptions:

• Counseling and Therapy in Video is a landmark collection in the Alexander Street Press Critical Video Editions™ series, containing more than 300 hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. The videos are designed for training and continuing education, for providing an invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with clients, and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice.

• Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works contains more than 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions—almost 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, together with 25,000 pages of major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full-text of the sessions themselves. All accounts are non-fiction, delivered in the first person and, where possible, contemporaneous.

Both products are available as an outright purchase or as an annual subscription from Gibson Library Connections Inc. Please contact Debbie Braun, COPPUL Licensing Coordinator, for more information.

New COPPUL member

COPPUL is pleased to announce that Mount Royal University will become a full member of the consortium on April 1, 2010. Mount Royal has been an Affiliate Member of COPPUL for many years.

Mount Royal University, located in Calgary, has a FLE enrollment of approximately 8,000. Areas of collection specialization, in addition to Arts and Science, include Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, Communication, Design, Nursing, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and the Holocaust.

As a COPPUL member, Mount Royal will be participating in the national reciprocal borrowing and resource sharing agreements. They will also be part of COPPUL's interlibrary loan centralized invoicing program.

Welcome to Mount Royal University!

COPPUL Outstanding Contribution Award Winner

COPPUL is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2010 Outstanding Contribution Award is Mark Jordan, Head of Library Systems, Simon Fraser University.

Mark is being recognized for his many contributions to the COPPUL Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) where played a key role in identifying and resolving technical challenges that had to be overcome to ensure the successful implementation of the network.

The PLN is a project that utilizes the LOCKSS digital preservation system as a means to archive collections of local significance to members of COPPUL that are not being preserved through any other means. There are only a handful of Private LOCKSS Networks currently in production and the COPPUL PLN is the first such initiative in Canada.

Congratulations to Mark!

A press release about the award can be found on the COPPUL website.