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UBC Library’s Joy Kirchner named ACRL Visiting Program Officer
Joy Kirchner, UBC Library’s Scholarly Communications Co-ordinator, has been appointed as a Visiting Program Officer to the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). The 12-month appointment was made to support the ACRL’s scholarly communications initiatives. Kirchner remains in her role at UBC Library, but has been granted some release time to assist the ACRL. [...]
UBC librarian wins engineering information award
Eugene Barsky, a Science and Engineering Librarian at UBC Library, has won an award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE, Engineering Libraries Division) for his work involving the digitization and promotion of decades of information on mine reclamation. Barsky was given the Innovation in Access to Engineering Information award for the project, a [...]
UBC Library's Dean Giustini interviewed by Significant Science
An interview with Dean Giutstini, “the Dean of Social Media in Medicine,” is featured on Significant Science – a blog about science, medicine, health and technology. Dean is a Reference Librarian at the Biomedical Branch Library. You can read the interview here.
UBC librarian published in open access Partnership journal (December 21)
Eugene Barsky, a Science and Engineering Librarian at UBC Library, has published an article in Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. Partnership is an open access journal. The article, entitled “A Library Journal Club as a Tool for Current Awareness and Open Communication: UBC case study” can be viewed at http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/1000/1558.
UBCO's Gwen Zilm awarded CLA's highest honour
Gwen Zilm, Associate Vice President, Learning Services at UBC Okanagan, has been awarded with the Miles Blackwell Outstanding Academic Librarian Award. This is the highest honour presented by the Canadian Library Association. The award was recently presented to Zilm at a national library conference in Montreal. You can read more here: http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/publicaffairs/mediareleases/2009/mr-09-053.html
UBC Librarian honoured as a Mover & Shaker
Dean Giustini of UBC Library’s Biomedical Branch Library has been named as a 2009 Mover & Shaker (Tech Evangelist) by Library Journal magazine, which states that “Together, these individuals comprise the coming generation of library leadership.” You can view the article on Dean here: www.libraryjournal.com/MS2009Inductee/2140335997.html
