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Paul Cubbon and George Moen – Smart Business, Small Business: An SBA Speaker Session in Vancouver

November 15, 2011

This is full recording of the Small Business Accelerator event, Smart Business, Small Business held October 17, 2011 at UBC Robson Square. The lecture features two compelling figures: Paul Cubbon, Marketing Instructor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business; and George Moen, a University of British Columbia alumnus, serial entrepreneur and President of Blenz The Canadian Coffee Company. Speakers offer insights around the notion that entrepreneur success is often bred from failure. Learn more about Paul Cubbon on his blog: http://blogs.ubc.ca/paulcubbon/ and George Moen on his blog: http://www.georgemoen.com/. The series was a celebratory event marking the Small Business Accelerators first year of service and was also held in conjunction with Small Business Week, organized by the Business Development Bank of Canada.

Speaker Biographies

George Moen proudly describes himself as a Serial Entrepreneur. With more than 30 years of experience in food and franchising, he specializes in transitioning small businesses into big business success stories. He is one of the country’s most followed CEO’s in social media and speaks as a keynote or on numerous panels at a variety of events about franchising, entrepreneurship, business and social media. Learn more about Paul Cubbon on his blog: http://blogs.ubc.ca/paulcubbon/

Paul Cubbon is a Marketing Instructor in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Cubbon’s interests are in marketing communication, customer behaviour, innovation and competition, social media, and how these combine to influence management practice in changing organizations to be truly customer serving. Learn more about George Moen on his blog: http://www.georgemoen.com/.

UBC Library Resources

Kruchten, P., Lawrence, P., Dahl, D., & Cubbon, P. (2011). New Venture Design–Interdisciplinary Capstone Projects at UBC. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association. [Link]

UBC Research Guides:

Current Awareness for Business Researchers

Marketing

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UBC Lifelong Learning Series Presents Ethan Zuckerman

November 15, 2011

Sunday November 20th 2011, 7pm at the Chan Centre for the Perfoming Arts

TICKETS CAN BE RESERVED HERE: HTTP://VANCOUVERHUMANRIGHTSLECTURE-EORG.EVENTBRITE.COM/

Activists around the world are turning to social media tools usually used for more pedestrian purposes: the sharing of family videos and videos of cats flushing toilets. But these tools can be extremely powerful in the hands of activists, as they are pervasive, easy to use and difficult for governments to censor. Zuckerman looks at “the cute cat theory” of internet activism, as it helps explain the Arab Spring protests, aggressive internet censorship in countries like China and Vietnam, and the challenges for the corporate owners of social media platforms in an era of online speech. This event is a hosted by UBC Continuing Studies, UBC School of Journalism, Yahoo!, and the Laurier Institution.

ABOUT ETHAN ZUCKERMAN

Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab. His research focuses on the distribution of attention in mainstream and new media, the use of technology for international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists.With Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan co-founded international blogging community Global Voices. Global Voices showcases news and opinions from citizen media in over 150 nations and thirty languages, publishing editions in twenty languages. Through Global Voices and through the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he served as a researcher and fellow for eight years, Ethan is active in efforts to promote freedom of expression and fight censorship in online spaces.

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre will sponsor the webcasting of this lecture.

For more information, please contact Allan Cho

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Michael V. Smith

November 10, 2011

Michael V. Smit

Michael V. Smith is a filmmaker, author and performer teaching creative writing in the interdisciplinary program of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus. His new novel, Progress (Cormorant Books, Spring 2011), is a tense, spirited depiction of how tragic events and long-held secrets shape a small working-class town.

Smith’s first novel, Cumberland (Cormorant Books, 2002), was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. In recent years, Smith won Vancouver’s Community Hero of the Year Award and the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers. He has also won a Western Magazine Award for Fiction, scooped two short film prize categories at Toronto’s Inside Out festival, and was nominated for the Journey Prize. Originally from Ontario, he now lives in Kelowna, BC.

Michael V. Smith read at the Lillooet Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on November 10, 2011.

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Rod Preece, Jodey Castricano, and David Fraser – Bringing the Collective Together: Nonhuman Animals, Humans and Practice at the University

November 8, 2011

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College, as part of the thematic series “The Ethics of Life, Use, and Care.” Featuring Rod Preece, Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University; Jodey Castricano, Critical Studies, UBC-O; Moderator: David Fraser, Zoologist, Animal Welfare Program, this lecture focuses on questions of ethics that interrogate habits of thought in the humanities and sciences in a 35-minute presentation by Rod Preece, political philosopher and well-respected Canadian scholar of animal rights.

UBC Library Resources

Preece, R., & Chamberlain, L. (1993). Animal welfare & human values. Waterloo, Ont., Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. [Link]

Preece, R. (2011). Animal sensibility and inclusive justice in the age of Bernard Shaw. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Preece, R. (2005). Brute souls, happy beasts, and evolution: The historical status of animals. Vancouver: UBC Press. [Link]

Castricano, J., & Project Muse University Press Archival eBooks. (2008). Animal subjects: An ethical reader in a posthuman world. North York; Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. [Link]

Fraser, D., & Universities Federation for Animal Welfare. (2008). Understanding animal welfare: The science in its cultural context. Ames, Iowa; Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.

UBC Research Guides

Animal Science / Applied Animal Biology

Zoology

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Paul Whitney – Keep Calm and Carry On or Freak Out and Throw Stuff; The Public Library Moving Forward

November 8, 2011

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and sponsored by SLAIS (School of Library, Archival and Information Studies). Amid escalating disruptive change in content provision and the widening economic malaise, the viability of public libraries is increasingly questioned. Drawing on his experience as a public librarian and copyright user rights advocate, Paul Whitney will discuss the implications of recent transformations for libraries. Whitney recently completed a research project on eBooks and Public Lending Right in Canada for the Public Lending Right Commission and is engaged in efforts to gain approval for a World Intellectual Property Organization international treaty on limitations and exceptions for libraries.

Paul Whitney is a consultant and educator on library and public policy issues. He served as Chief Librarian at Burnaby Public Library for 13 years and as the City Librarian at Vancouver Public Library from 2003 to his retirement at the end of 2010. He has been involved in various professional activities throughout his career, including serving as President of the Canadian Library Association and the British Columbia Library Association. Paul is a member of the International Federation of Library Associations Governing Board and is the GB liaison to IFLA’s Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee (CLM). He previously served six years as the Canadian representative on the CLM. Paul served on the Canadian Public Lending Right Commission and Executive for eight years and served at the Chair of the Library and Archives Canada Council on Access to Information for Print Disabled Canadians.

Select Articles Available at UBC Library

Greenwood, T. (1894). Public libraries: A history of the movement and manual for the organization and management of rate-supported libraries. Paris; London; Melbourne: Cassell & Co.

Champneys, A. L. (1907). Public libraries: A treatise on their design, construction, and fittings, with a chapter on the principles of planning, and a summary of the law. London: B.T. Batsford.

UBC Library Research Guides

Library, Archival, and Information Science

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Paul Hackett – Disease and the Nature of Canada

November 8, 2011

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Reflecting the harsh climate, thin soils and generally forbidding character of the vast northern territory that is Canada, it has often been said that the history of this country is inescapably environmental. This lecture series engages the great drama of human interaction with this challenging realm, reflecting on the transformation of the northern half of the continent through time as a foundation for sensible engagement with the environmental challenges facing Canadian society in the twenty-first century.Each lecture will address one of three central themes – human activities and Canadian nature; nature’s influence on the nature of Canada; and ideas and nature in Canada – and reflect upon how the subject of the lecture has affected/changed “the nature of Canada”. Dr. Hackett is interested in the historical and geographical patterns of the health of western Canada’s First Nations. His graduate research examined the past diffusion of directly-transmitted, acute infectious diseases, leading to the publication in 2002 of his book, A Very Remarkable Sickness. His CIHR-funded postdoctoral research focused on the changing public health of the Island Lake First Nations of northern Manitoba during the twentieth century. His current CIHR-supported research investigates the history of tuberculosis among the western First Nations. In keeping with his focus on the impact of cultural change on community health, an upcoming project will examine the factors that helped set the stage for the current epidemic of Type 2 diabetes among First Nations in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Select Articles Available at UBC Library

Hackett, P. (2005). Historical mourning practices observed among the Cree and Ojibway Indians of the central subarctic Ethnohistory, 52(3), 503-532. [Link]

Hackett, P. (2004). Averting disaster: The Hudson’s bay company and smallpox in western Canada during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 78(3), 575-609. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Aboriginal Health

First Nations

Occupational and Environmental Health

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Featured Place at IKBLC: Stewart, BC

November 4, 2011

Our featured place this week is Stewart B.C., which is a border town near the end of the Portland canal and the border of Alaska. Forestry and mining are the two main industries of the area, mining being what prompted white settlers to the area in 1898. The Nisga’a First Nation called the Stewart area Skam-A-Kounst, meaning “safe house” or “strong house.” Stewart is named for the Stewart brothers from Victoria, who held interests in a number of mines in the area at the turn of the century.

The featured item from Stewart is from our B.C. Historical Photograph Collection and shows a tram at one of mines in Stewart:

BC1538, Head of Porter-Idaho tram

This snowy photograph was taken in 1933 at the Porter-Idaho mine. This aerial tram line was built in 1928 to run from the mouth of the Marmot River up Mount Rainey to the mine.

In the Barber Centre, the Stewart room is room 184, a meeting room on the first floor.

To learn more about our historical photograph collections, you can consult our Historical Photographs Research Guide.

cross-posted at Rare Books and Special Collections, UBC Library.

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Anthony Clarke – The Mentoring Profile Inventory: An Online Professional Development Resource for Practicum Advisors

November 1, 2011

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education’s Community to Reimagine Educational Alternatives for Teacher Education (CREATE). The Richmond School Advisor Network has developed an online inventory, a Mentoring Profile Inventory (MPI), to help practicum advisors attend to selected dimensions of their advisory practice. The MPI helps advisors identify the degree to which elements of their advisory practice motivates and/or challenges them in their work with teacher candidates. The inventory provides advisors with an easy-to-understand graphic report (14 sub-scales and 3 summary charts) that can be used individually or collectively to facilitate advisors’ professional development. The MPI is relevant to both school and faculty advisors. (September 20, 12.30-2.00pm at the Neville Scarfe, Room 310).

Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library

Clarke, A. (2002). Who trains? employers’ commitment to workforce development. Labour Market Trends, 110(6), 319. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Education

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Richard Sparks – Evidence-Based What?

November 1, 2011

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College as part of the Knowledge Brokers and Knowledge Formats symposium. Today, the study of knowledge production, knowledge formats and knowledge politics is being developed across a wide variety of research fields. Along with the work of scholars such as Ian Hacking, Mary Poovey, and Bruno Latour, the work of the late Green College Principal, Richard Ericson, have all on policing, risk, the news media, and the insurance industry made an important contribution not only to these substantive areas but also to the methodological tools that scholars use in their everyday study of knowledge‐power processes. Jointly sponsored by Green College, UBC, and the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto.

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Sparks, R. (1992). Television and the drama of crime: Moral tales and the place of crime in public life. Philadelphia; Buckingham [England]: Open University Press.

Hood, R., & Sparks, R. F. (1970). Key issues in criminology. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Loader, I., & Sparks, R. (2011). Public criminology?. New York; London: Routledge.

Sparks, R. F. (1971). Local prisons: The crisis in the English penal system. London: Heinemann.

UBC Library Research Guides

Crime & Justice Statistics

Criminal Law

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Jonathan Simon – A New Medical Model: The Rise of Humanitarian Medicine as a Penal Knowledge

November 1, 2011

UBC Library Resources

Simon, J., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2005). Chemistry, pharmacy, and revolution in france, 1777-1809. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company. [Link]

Bensaude-Vincent, B., Simon, J., Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection, & Ebook Library. (2012). Chemistry: The impure science. Hackensack, NJ; London; Singapore: Imperial College Press. [Link]

UBC Research Guides

Medicine

Systematic Reviews Search Methods

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