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Anthropometric data is important for designing and assessing products.

Do you need to know the abdominal depth of a 7-month pregnant woman? The difference between British, US and Japanese men's calf circumferences? What about the head circumference of the 40th percentile of infants aged 6-9 months? You can find find all of these measurements in PeopleSize.

PeopleSize is reference visual anthropometry software. The Library has installed PeopleSize on the PCs in the library. Unfortunately PeopleSize does not work on Macs.

The National Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation partnered with Emily Carr in a technology demonstration project that harnesses the clean power of hydrogen and fuel cells in a sustainably designed visitor kiosk. The kiosk will be located in the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Gateway technology demonstration and exhibit centre of the NRC-IFCI’s LEED Gold certified building at the University of British Columbia.

Check out these peer-reviewed journals that are available full text in Art Full Text.

Fashion Theory

Provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the rigorous analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot-binding to fashion advertising.

The Library is excited to launch four new digital collections that support teaching and research at the University. These collections are the first local digital collections of Emily Carr University Art + Design. They include both images and text.

The collections are:

Saturday, November 7th – 11am-6pm
The Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street

Rabble.ca: "Do you believe in democracy and free expression? Do you want your opinion to count rather then have it swept under the carpet by corporate media? If you answered “yes” to the previous questions, Media Democracy Day is your day!" -- Read more.

Western Front: "Western Front Exhibitions and Media Arts are pleased to present Stories from Places and Times Distantly Close, the Vancouver premiere of works by internationally recognized media artists Cinema Suitcase and Will Kwan." -- Read more.

Opening: Friday, November 20, 8pm

• Artspeak, November 7, 2009 at 8pm 
• Co-presented with Fillip

Artspeak: "Los Angeles-based artists to launch Area Sneaks Issue 2.This event will include a demonstration/talk by Jen Hofer and Hillary Mushkin, a reading by Mathew Timmons, and a screening of Marie Jager's The Purple Cloud (2006). Area Sneaks is a Los Angeles-based journal edited by Joseph Mosconi and Rita Gonzalez which seeks further contact between the worlds of visual art and poetry."

"Get Animated! is a Canada-wide series of free screenings and activities from the National Film Board, to mark October 28th, 1982: the date the first animated film was shown, by Emile Reynaud at the Musee Grevin in Paris."

"You can also enjoy the NFB's online film festival programmed exclusively for Get Animated!"

For details for all events, go to: http://films.nfb.ca/get-animated/

"A festival of sonic collagism, and the art of sampled and repurposed sounds and images.Featuring  Jackson 2bears, Uri Caine, Chris Cutler, DJ Tapes, Eric The Red, Holzkopf, Mark Hosler (Negativland), John Oswald, People Like Us (Vicki Bennett), Scanner, David Shea and Sonarchy." --Read more.

Exhibition dates: October 3, 2009 - January 3, 2010

"The rigorously composed photographs of Canadian artist Scott McFarland explore a variety of environments—manicured private landscapes, botanical gardens, public parks, zoos and the pastoral fringes of urban space—as sites in which the intersection between civilization, nature and the particular character of photographic representation can be investigated." -- Read more.