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Learning Centre Exhibit – The Pose Stands for Potentiality
An exhibit produced by two UBC graduate students is now on display in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The Pose Stands for Potentiality – featuring works by Jordy Hamilton and curated by Toby Lawrence – juxtaposes UBC’s presidential portraits with a series of smaller works, fostering a conversation between contemporary and traditional forms of […]
Book review columns – Business in Vancouver newspaper
Book reviews Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone. Reviewed by Donna Kaye. Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next by Greg Lindsay and John Kasarda. Reviewed by Treena Chambers. Comebacks at Work: Using Conversation to Master Confrontation by Kathleen Kelley Reardon and Christopher T. Noblet. Reviewed […]
UBC copyright update
Developments regarding UBC and copyright are featured in a blog from The Tyee, an online publication and The Ubyssey, UBC’s student newspaper. “The University of British Columbia has decided to opt-out of Access Copyright’s proposed tariff on copyrighted materials that generally make up student course packs, to avoid increased fees and restrictions that would begin […]
Old Streams project featured on Straight.com, Granville Online
The Old Streams project – which involves UBC Library and the Vancouver Aquarium – is featured on the Georgia Straight‘s website and Granville Online. UBC Library has digitized the content of the Aquarium’s paper maps from the 1970s, allowing users to discover Vancouver’s vanished streams and waterways. You can view the articles here and here, […]
UBC Library and Vancouver Aquarium reveal Vancouver’s secret waterways
Media Release | Jul. 19, 2011 Vancouver’s vanished streams and waterways can be discovered once again thanks to a digitization project involving UBC Library and the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre. UBC Library digitized the content of the Aquarium’s paper maps from the 1970s, allowing both scholars and the public to see the paths of […]
UBC Library in open access Partnership journal
An article from UBC Library’s Science and Engineering team appears in the open access journal Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. The piece, entitled “Teaching Matters: Increasing Library Visibility through Integrated Classroom Instruction,” is by Eugene Barsky (Librarian), Aleteia Greenwood (Head) and Kevin Read (student librarian and student at UBC’s […]
UBC Library in the BCLA Browser (Vol. 3, No. 3)
Find out about the latest developments at UBC Library in the new issue of the BCLA Browser (Volume 3, Number 3). The Features section includes news about University Librarian Ingrid Parent taking on the presidency of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions; a new Director for the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre; the […]
Information Literacy: Digging Deeper for Understanding in a Digital World
UBC’s Education Library hosted an information literacy mini-conference for secondary student teachers (teacher candidates) called “Digging Deeper for Understanding-Using Information Smarts in a Digital World” on June 8, 2011. The mini-conference was planned collaboratively with Dr. Kedrick James, a faculty member in the Department of Language and Literacy Education and Jo-Anne Naslund, Instructional Services librarian […]
UBC Library helps furnish schools, non-profit organizations
A piece of UBC Library now resides in the tiny Dora Drinkwater Community Library on Denman Island, B.C.
Expanding access to Earth and Ocean Sciences
Earth sciences researchers can now access and explore more relevant research thanks to cIRcle, UBC’s institutional repository. cIRcle is the University of British Columbia’s digital repository for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners. With more than 34,000 items freely accessible to anyone on the web, cIRcle offers continued […]