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
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
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/
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
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
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.
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.
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.
A monthly web-writing series presented by Schema Magazine.
In partnership with: the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (University of British Columbia), the North American Association of Asian Professionals Vancouver (NAAAP), theTyee.ca, Fresh Media (Vancouver) and the Office of Learning Technology (University of British Columbia). Sponsored by The Laurier Institution.
Schema Magazine launches a monthly series of web writing workshops and speakers, featuring some of the most pioneering, innovative and ethnic cool voices on the Internet.
In the world of social networking and Web 2.0, having an online presence on the web is becoming more and more important. Social media gives us the tools to be a part of this growing conversation, but how do we define our voice on the web as a writer, a producer and as a blogger?
iWriteAboutMe.com will showcase dynamic web personalities, social media gurus, bloggers and writers who will talk about how they transformed their personal stories and diverse identities into an online brand. The series begins with Phil Yu, aka. AngryAsianMan.com, a trailblazer for Asia American voices on the web and someone who has truly set the stage for online discourse around race, culture and identity for the blogging generation. Phil will share the inspiring story of starting one of the most influential online spaces in today’s Asian American movement, share tips on how he keeps his content accessible and relevant, and what was involved in moving AngryAsianMan.com from activism to super-blog status.
The upcoming workshop:
Phil Yu aka. AngryAsianMan.com
Wednesday September 23, 2009
Victoria Learning Theatre
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | University of British Columbia 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, B.C.
Free Event and everyone is welcome. RSVP required as seating is limited. Please visit NAAAP Vancouver to reserve a seat.
To minimize the carbon footprint of this event, Phil Yu is speaking in Vancouver via video-conference from his headquarters in LA.
UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre are featured in the September 2009 issue of UBC Reports.
You can read about the digitization of UBC’s first 100 theses, a project undertaken by University Archives, here: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2009/09/04/women-were-first-to-earn-ubc-grad-degrees-first-100-theses-project/
And you can read about new offerings from the Chapman Learning Commons here: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2009/09/04/uncommon-learning-opportunities/