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Cantonese Music: Where East meets West

October 11, 2009

gaohuIn collaboration with the Asian Library, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is pleased to present Cantonese Music: Where East meets West from October 1 to December 15, 2009.  Westernization has been a major process in Chinese music since the beginning of the 20th century, illustrated by the adoption of Western harmony, counterpoint and performance practices. Western elements have also influenced the design of instruments, introducing new sonorities to traditional texture.

This exhibit includes samples of hammer dulcimers, two-stringed fiddles, three-stringed lutes and a zither, along with scores. It’s believed that Steven Lee, who was an active member in Vancouver’s Chinese community in the 1940s and 1950s, collected these instruments.

For images of this display, please find here.

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Daniel Schachter – Constructive memory: Remembering The Past to Imagining The Future

October 9, 2009

As part of UBC Psychologys 5th Annual Quinn Memorial Lecture (QML), held on Friday, 9 October 2009, from 4:30 – 5:30 pm. The title of this lecture is “Constructive memory: Remembering the past to imagine the future. ” Daniel L. Schachter is Kenan Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Schachter is a renowned researcher whose research on memory and amnesia memory has had a profound impact on psychological science in general and cognitive neuroscience in particular. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

Select Articles Available at UBC Library

Parkin, A. J. (1997). Memory and amnesia: An introduction. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell.

Glisky, E. L., & Schachter, D. L. (1988). Acquisition of domain-specific knowledge in patients with organic memory disorders. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 21(6), 333. [Link]

Schachter, D. L. (1986). On the relation between genuine and simulated amnesia. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 4(1), 47-64. doi:10.1002/bsl.2370040104 [Link]

Squire, L., & Zola, S. (1998). Episodic memory, semantic memory, and amnesia. Hippocampus, 8(3), 205-211. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1998)8:3<205::AID-HIPO3>3.3.CO;2-8. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Neuroscience

Psychology

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Connects newsletter – Fall 2009 (posted October 7)

October 7, 2009

The fall issue of Connects, the newsletter of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, is now available. Read up on achievements of the past year and get a preview of projects to come.

You can view Connects online at www.supportubclibrary.ca/newsletters/Connects_Fall%2009_fa.pdf

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Open Access Week at UBC (posted October 7)

October 7, 2009

Join us at UBC as we take part in the First International Open Access Week.

Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society. Open Access is the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication, and it’s gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers throw their weight behind it.

UBC has joined SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science, Students for Free Culture, OASIS (the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook), Open Access Directory and eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries) – along with more than 120 institutions worldwide – to celebrate the First International Open Access Week.

Various events hosted by UBC Library will take place from Tuesday, October 20 through Thursday, October 22, 2009 in the Dodson Room, located on level three of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.  The event’s themes are: Open Access Around the World; Surfacing UBC Scholarship; and Journal Publishing.

Attend a workshop, participate in a panel discussion and hear from UBC colleagues about how they participate in the open access movement.  Come learn about open access and share your perspective!

For a schedule of events, and to register, go to www.library.ubc.ca/schol_comm/oa/start.html

For more information, contact Joy Kirchner at joy.kirchner@ubc.ca

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Learning Centre digitization program in UBC Reports (posted October 7)

October 7, 2009

The B.C. History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, is in the October 2009 issue of UBC Reports.

You can view the article here: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2009/10/01/sharing-island-treasures/

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Digitization project in the Cariboo Observer (posted October 7)

October 7, 2009

A story about a digitization project supported by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre appears in the Cariboo Observer. The project involves the digitization of community newspapers, and also was supported by the Observer, the City of Quesnel and the Friends of Quesnel Museum.

You can view the story here: http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_cariboo/quesnelobserver/news/63187607.html

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Denise Chong – Egg on Mao

October 5, 2009

In her first book in a decade, Denise Chong tells the story of the man who defaced Chairman Maos portrait during the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, twenty years ago. After eleven years in a Chinese jail, Lu Decheng escaped to Canada, followed by his family. They all now live in Calgary. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Chong, D. (1995). The concubine’s children. Toronto: Penguin.

Chong, D. (1997). The penguin anthology of stories by Canadian women. Toronto: Viking.

Chong, D. (2001). The girl in the picture: The story of Kim Phuc, the photograph, and the Vietnam war story. New York: Penguin.

Chong, D. (2013). Lives of the family: Stories of fate & circumstance. Toronto: Random House Canada.

UBC Library Research Guides

History

Chinese History

 

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Serve yourself – and win an iPod! (posted Sept. 30)

September 30, 2009

Check out your own books at UBC Library – and have a chance to win an 8GB iPod Touch!

The event is sponsored by 3M to promote usage of the Library’s 3M self-serve book checkout units, which are in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Koerner Library and Woodward Library.

On November 2, a draw will be made from all self-serve transactions that took place during the entire month of October. A lucky patron will be selected to win the iPod Touch, courtesy of 3M. All UBC Library cardholders are eligible to enter the raffle.

Look for more information on Library signage and digital displays, the Library’s homepage (www.library.ubc.ca) and at the bottom of the self-serve printouts.

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Canvas Treasures in Learning Centre gallery (posted Sept. 25)

September 25, 2009

Art and book lovers can now view Canvas Treasures that feature rare images from UBC Library’s special collections. From September 21 to October 12, 2009, a selection of these striking canvases are on display in the gallery space of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, located on level two and to the left of the Circulation Desk.

Images include details of rare medieval manuscripts, maps from the world’s first modern atlas, vintage illustrations of popular fairy tales such as Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen and an illuminated 1575 Spanish Chant Manuscript that the Library recently digitized.

These images, also featured on UBC Library Vault (www.ubcvault.ca), are printed with archival-quality inks onto premium canvas using a high-resolution printing technique called giclée. The prints are then stretched and gallery-wrapped onto wooden frames. The prints feature a certificate describing the image and its source, and a plaque containing the unique story of each image. Sizes are 36’’x48’’, 48’’x60’’ and 54’’x54’’.

Proceeds from the sale of these artworks support the growth and maintenance of UBC Library Collections. For more information, please contact Manuela Boscenco at 604-827-5914 or manuela.boscenco@ubc.ca or Jessica Woolman at 604-827-4275 or jessica.woolman@ubc.ca.

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Rita Wong

September 24, 2009

Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, part of the BC Book Prizes in Poetry, Forage is a vividly described, fierce commentary on our international political landscape and the injustices it breeds, this collection of poems holds sharply modern and timely opinions. It also features marginalia, Chinese characters and photos to give depth to the poetry’s political context. Bridging cultures and contexts, Forage “manages to be instructive without being pedantic, thought-provoking while still calling forth humor and beauty.” (Nightwood, 2007).

Rita Wong is the author of three books of poetry: sybil unrest (co-written with Larissa Lai, Line Books, 2008),forage (Nightwood 2007), and monkeypuzzle (Press Gang 1998). forage won  Canada Reads Poetry 2011. Wong received the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writer Award in 1997, and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2008. Building from her doctoral dissertation which examined labour in Asian North American literature, her work investigates the relationships between contemporary poetics, social justice, ecology, and decolonization.

An Associate Professor in Critical + Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design, she has developed a humanities course focused on water, for which she received a fellowship from the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. She is currently researching the poetics of water with the support of a SSHRC Research/Creation grant.

Rita Wong read at the Lillooet Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on September 24th, 2009 at 1.00PM.

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