By Glenn Drexhage on September 25, 2009
Manuela Boscenco is the winner of the Canadian Library Association’s (CLA) 2009 Student Article Contest. She is the Promotions Co-ordinator in UBC Library’s Development Office and a student at UBC’s School of Library and Information Studies. Her article, “Strictly Business: Providing Access to Digital Images,” appears in Feliciter, the CLA’s magazine, Issue 4, 2009. You […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on June 9, 2009
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
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By Glenn Drexhage on May 5, 2009
UBC Library is pleased to announce that Chris Hives, University Archivist, has been selected to participate in the 2009/10 Research Library Leadership Fellows Program, from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). This is an executive leadership program designed and sponsored by seven ARL member libraries: Brigham Young University and the University of Utah; University of […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on April 20, 2009
The B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP), an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, has been awarded a Programs and Services Merit Award by the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA). The award was presented at the annual BCLA conference in April. The awards committee noted that the organization was impressed with the project’s scope […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on March 17, 2009
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.” In his preweb library days, Dean Giustini noticed that consumer health groups for breast and prostate cancer, along with […]
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