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Thumbsucker: Book Art at the Learning Centre

November 4, 2008

Thumbsucker, a riveting exhibition of book objects, is on display at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

The works were created by Visual Art Theory students at UBC in a 300-level course taught by Christine D’Onofrio. In D’Onofrio’s words, “An essential emptiness is what Thumbsucker seeks to find, but the promise of wanting something more makes it undeniably full.”

Come see for yourself – the show appears on the fourth floor mezzanine of the Learning Centre’s Ridington Room until November 14. Many of the items can be handled and explored in person.

More information is available here: http://www.ahva.ubc.ca/eventsDetails.cfm?EventID=650&EventTypeNumID=5

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BC Research Libraries Group Presents Open Access Authors Fund on November 17th

November 4, 2008

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)

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UBC Library awarded an A- in Globe and Mail survey

October 24, 2008

In the Globe and Mail’s Canadian University Report, UBC Library received an overall library satisfaction grade of A-, compared to the national average of B+.

You can view further details here:

http://www.globecampus.ca/navigator/university-of-british-columbia-the/

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Gabor Mate at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on Dec 4th

October 22, 2008

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!

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Learning Centre Tech Hub featured in e-Strategy

October 6, 2008

The Learning and Teaching Support Hub – a collaboration involving various UBC groups that is based at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – is featured in e-Strategy from UBC Information Technology.

You can view the article here:

http://update.estrategy.ubc.ca/2008/10/01/five-partners-one-plan

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Mike Hoolboom

October 2, 2008

Mike Hoolboom

The first novel from acclaimed filmmaker Mike Hoolboom, The Steve Machine is an audaciously original story of the friendship of Auden, a lost and HIV-positive young man, and Steve Reinke, a video artist who can cure insomnia, lower back pain and the ability to fall in love. Together the duo encounter much love, loss and laughter, as well as Yoko Ono, an orgy master, Leno and Letterman and the staff at Pizzabilities. Mike Hoolboom is the author of three previous books: Plague Years, Inside the Pleasure Dome: Fringe Film in Canada and Practical Dreamers. He is a founding member of the Pleasure Dome screening collective and has worked as the artistic director of the Images Festival and as the experimental film coordinator for the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. He is the winner of over thirty international prizes and has enjoyed nine international retrospectives of his work.

Mike Hoolboom read at the Lillooet Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on Thursday October 2, 2008 at 1.00PM.

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UBC Library Acquires Keenlyside Legal Research Collection

September 22, 2008

A riveting collection that highlights the effects of B.C.’s colonial justice system on Chinese and Aboriginal populations is now available at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC).

The John Keenlyside Legal Research Collection features court cases involving Chinese and Aboriginal people as both witnesses and defendants. The documents reveal how the 19th-century justice system and colonial society in British Columbia related to people of Aboriginal and Chinese descent. The collection comprises 82 files, totalling 340 documents.

John S. Keenlyside was born and raised in Vancouver and graduated from UBC with a degree in economics and political science. In 1973 he founded John S. Keenlyside & Co., an investment-counseling firm that he manages with his two sons.

Keenlyside acquired the legal collection in 1991. The documents date from 1862 to 1891 and are available to the public in the form of coloured photocopies, which are stored at Rare Books and Special Collections on the first level of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. A finding aid is available at: www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll/AZ/PDF/KL/Keenlyside_John.pdf
For more information, please contact Ralph Stanton, Head of Rare Books and Special Collections, at 604-822-4879 or ralph.stanton@ubc.ca.

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B.C. History Digitization Program in the Jewish Independent

September 19, 2008

A project that is part of the B.C. History Digitization Program – an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – was recently featured in the Jewish Independent.

You can view the article here:

http://www.jewishindependent.ca/archives/Aug08/archives08Aug29-05.html

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