Women and Trades

• Journal & Article Indexes
• Background Information
• Citation and Style Guides
• Carpentry Web Resources

• Associations
• More Government Websites
• Carpentry Schools
• Job Search

• Apprenticeship and the Red Seal Program
• BC Building Code
• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
• Canadian General Standards Board
• Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, WorkSafe B.C.
• Building BC.
• Canadian Woodworking Magazine
• Construction Innovation
• Fine Woodworking Online
• Institute for Research in Construction
• Lumber Basics
• Where to Find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet
• Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material
• Wood Products Extension Resources for Teachers
• Woodwire
• WorkSafe BC

Associations and Organizations

• American Wood Council
• American Forest and Paper Association
• Architectural Woodwork Institute
• Buildcore
• Canadian Home Builders' Association
• Canadian Labour Congress
• Canadian Plywood Association
• Canadian Wood Council
• Forest Products Society
• Woodworking
• Woodworker's Website Association
• Woodzone

TIP: Don't believe everything you read! Evaluate web sources very carefully for their accuracy, authority, and currency. Here are some evaluation criteria to help you

Job Search

• Canadian Careers Page
• Job Shark Canada
• Monster.ca
• Occupational Outlook Handbook - United States
• Also, check out Kwantlen Library's Job Search page

Selected Books in the Cloverdale Library

Call Numbers: Browse the library shelves for Carpentry and Construction books by going to the TA or TH sections

• Basic Blueprint Reading and Sketching
  T 379 O4 1999 Cloverdale
• British Columbia Building Code 2005
  REF TH 226 B7 B72006 Cloverdale
• Building Trades Printreading: residential and light commercial construction
  TH 431 P72 2000 Cloverdale
• Carpentry
  TH 5604 L44 2001 Cloverdale
• Carpentry and Building Construction
  TH 5604 F45 1986 Cloverdale
• Concrete Masonry Handbook for Architects, Engineers, Builders
  TH 1461 R36 1991 Cloverdale
• Carpentry
  TH 5606 H38 1999 Cloverdale
• Formwork for Concrete Construction TA 682.44 H86 2005 Cloverdale
• Illustrated Dictionary of Building Design and construction
  REF TH 9 B87 2005 Cloverdale
• National Building Code of Canada 2005
  REF TH 226 A15 N3 2005 2005 Cloverdale
• Ortho's all about carpentry basics
  TH 5640 O78 2000 Cloverdale

DVDs/Videos

The Cloverdale Library has over 100 videos/dvds on Carpentry and Construction topics located in the Reserve Video/DVD section of the library. These items are available to Carpentry students for a 1 day loan.

The library also has the following web-streamed video series:

• SafetyCare: a series of over 70 industrial safety videos available from the applications menu on the desktop of all library and computer lab pc's at the Cloverdale Campus.
• Worksafe BC : a series produced by WorkSafe BC

Kwantlen Library subscribes to a variety of journals both in print and online. If you're not sure if a journal is scholarly (often called "academic" or "peer-reviewed"), look at our checklist

Selected Magazines

• Building
  Cloverdale
• Canadian Home Workshop
  Cloverdale
• Construction Canada
  Cloverdale
• Fine Homebuilding
  Cloverdale
• Fine Woodworking
  Cloverdale
• Journal of Light Construction Cloverdale
• Wood Design & Building
  Cloverdale
• WorkSafe
  Cloverdale, Langley
• Workbench
  Cloverdale
  

• Academic Search Premier
• Applied Science and Technology Index
• Business Source Premier
• Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)

TIP for Advanced Researchers: Set up an alert for your favourite journal and you'll be notified when the latest issue is available electronically. For help with this, see our Search Alert guide.

• APA - American Psychological Assoc. guidelines
• MLA- Modern Language Assoc. standards

• British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Conestoga College
• Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
• Red Deer College
• Southern Alberta Institute of Technology