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Read about the latest developments at UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in the Fall 2008 issue of the CPSLD Newsletter – a publication from the Council of Post Secondary Library Directors, British Columbia.

You can view the newsletter here (UBC news begins on page 17):

http://www.cpsld.ca/Newsletter/Newsletter%20Vol.19%20No.2%20Fall%202008

Tony Harrison and award-winning actress Sian Thomas lead a master class at UBC on reading poetry aloud and delivering verse in performance. Some participants will have the opportunity to continue working with Harrison and Thomas on the delivery of verse and to perform scenes from Harrison’s plays as part of his final event at UBC on Monday, December 1.

Tony Harrison is a 2008 Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor, and one of Britain’s leading film and theatre poets. Indeed, he is one of the most important poets writing today. He has written nearly a dozen plays for London’s National Theatre since the 1970s, from his translation of The Misanthrope in 1973, to his most recent play, Fram, which premiered in April 2008. He is the author of translations for The Royal Shakespeare Company, libretto for the New York Metropolitan Opera, and plays for production in Nigeria, Greece and Austria. He has also created several film/poems for broadcast on television, as well as the feature-length verse film Prometheus. Harrison has published many volumes of poetry, including the poem, v., which caused a national uproar when a filmed version was broadcast on television.

All are welcome to attend the free workshop, which is co-hosted by Green College and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The event takes place on Wednesday, November 26 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Lillooet Room on the third level of the Learning Centre.

Those wishing to participate as actors are invited to send an e-mail to Hallie Marshall at halliem@interchange.ubc.ca.

For more information, contact gc.events@ubc.ca or 604-822-0676, or consult the full program of events at: www.greencollege.ubc.ca/Academic/Tony%20Harrison%202008.pdf

The first concert of the 2008-2009 season of the Dodson Music Series will take place on Friday November 14th at 12:00 noon in the Dodson Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

TIRESIAS AND FRIENDS

Tiresias is a duo ensemble consisting of Rachel Kiyo Kiwaasa, a recent alumna and also the previous director of this concert series when it was known as Music at Main, and Mark McGregor, a graduate student in the School of Music. They will be joined by colleagues in what promises to be an exciting and innovative programme of music by B.C. Composers.

The Dodson Music Series is a organized and performed by UBC Music students. Admission is free.

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present Open Access Authors Fund

In June 2008, Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary established an Open Access Authors Fund. The first of its kind in Canada and the sixth such program in the world, the Fund is designed to pay submission fees for University of Calgary authors who have articles accepted in Open Access journals that charge such fees. This initiative and other open access funds established at University of California-Berkeley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Nottingham, and University of Amsterdam represents innovative ways Libraries, typically in partnership with their University administrations or VP of Research offices, are supporting open access publication on their campuses.

Join Andrew Waller from the University of Calgary for a discussion of the background to and implementation of their Open Access Authors Fund.

Monday, November 17th, 2008
3:30 to 5:00pm Dodson Room (302), Irving K. Barker Learning Centre The University of British Columbia

RSVP: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/booking/description.cfm?sessionid=6188

About Andrew Waller:
Andrew Waller is Serials Librarian in the Collections Services unit at the University of Calgary. He also has some managerial responsibilities in the Serial Acquisitions unit. Andrew regularly writes and speaks on topics such as Open Access, e-journals, the effects of the USA PATRIOT and similar legislation on Canadian libraries, and systematic downloading. He is a contributor to the Open Access Librarian blog and is a Canadian editor for E-LIS.

For more information about The BCLRG Lecture Series please contact a committee member:
SFU: Heather De Forest (hdefores@sfu.ca), Don Taylor (dstaylor@sfu.ca),
UBC: Joy Kirchner (joy.kirchner@ubc.ca), Kat McGrath (kat.mcgrath@ubc.ca),
UVic: Katy Nelson (katnel@uvic.ca)

For over ten years Gabor Maté has been the staff physician at the Portland Hotel,
a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. His
patients are challenged by life-threatening drug addictions, schizophrenia,
mental illness, Hepatitis C, HIV and, in many cases, all four. But if Dr. Maté’s
patients are at the far end of the spectrum, how many of us are also struggling
with addictions?

Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, work, food, sex, gambling and excessive inappropriate
spending: what is amiss with our lives that we seek such self-destructive ways to
comfort ourselves? And why is it so difficult to stop these habits, even as they
threaten our health, jeopardize our relationships and corrode our lives? Join us
as Gabor Maté reads from In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.

When: Thursday, Dec 4th, 2008 – 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Where: The Lillooet Room (301) at the Chapman Learning Commons

Please rsvp in advance!