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On health literacy, mobile devices and more: Q & A with Dean Giustini
Meet Dean Giustini, Reference Librarian and blogger at UBC’s Biomedical Branch Library at Vancouver General Hospital. What’s been the biggest change to health libraries and librarianship that you’ve encountered during your career? Two equally important trends that have changed health libraries and librarianship are: 1) the shift to digital forms of medical information and 2) […]
Live-in for Literacy at UBC Library
Live-in for Literacy is taking place again this year on the second floor foyer of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Three students are “camping” at the Learning Centre between January 27 and February 3, raising funds to build schools, libraries and other educational infrastructure in developing countries. This year, the goal this year is […]
Live in for Literacy featured in The Thunderbird
The recent Live in for Literacy event, held at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and supported by UBC Library, is featured in The Thunderbird – the student publication of UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism. You can view the article here: http://thethunderbird.ca/2009/03/11/students-set-up-camp-for-literacy/
Live-in for Literacy project at Learning Centre featured in the Vancouver Sun
From January 16, 2009 to January 26, two students are camping in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre foyer to raise support, awareness and funds for global literacy. The UBC students are participating as part of Live-in for Literacy 2009, a project that involves university students across Canada living in libraries. The aim is to […]
Room to Read charity featured in The Province blog
The Room to Read charity is featured in a blog from The Province newspaper. This charity is supported in part by the Live-in for Literacy campaign, which features students living in university libraries to raise funds. UBC students participated in this campaign for the first time last year. You can view the blog entry here: […]