Minghui Yu
World Poetry Society Presents Creative Dreaming Tools for Your Art
December 15, 2012, 1.00-3.00pm at the Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Melanie Feinberg – Personal Digital Collections as Creative Expression
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Once undertaken primarily by museum professionals, the activity of curatorship has been popularized via the Web. Social media tools, such as YouTube playlists and Pinterest Web bulletin boards, enable users to curate a diverse […]
Thomas Abel – Cultural Capital and the Production of Health
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Population Health lecture series. Health is a societal resource to be produced in everyday life based on the (unequally distributed) resources people have individually and collectively available. In regard to such resources, economic and social forms of capital have been studied […]
National School Library Day at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Engaging Youth With Indigenous Materials in Libraries and Classrooms, Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 4:30-6:00pm
"Re"-Telling the Story: A Conference on International Development
UBC Community Learning Initiative / AUCC Students for Development, Saturday, October 20, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 5:30 PM (PDT)
Julienne Molineaux – Library and Archives Canada, Ten Years After the Merger
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, the iSchool at The University of British Columbia, cordially invites you to the first of our Fall 2012 Colloquium Series, where Julienne Molineaux will present […]
Celebrate Learning Week 2012
Celebrate Learning Week (October 27 – November 4, 2012) at IKBLC presents two community events.
Darren Bifford and Grant Lawrence
Darren Bifford and Grant Lawrence at the Robson Reading Series Join us at 7pm, on Thursday, October 11, for a reading by Darren Bifford and Grant Lawrence at Robson Square. Doors open at 6:45. Admission is free and books will be available for purchase and signing. Darren Bifford is originally from Summerland, BC. His work […]
Ashok Kotwal and Bharat Ramaswami – Food Security in India
India is on the brink of enacting a law to guarantee subsidised food to about two-thirds of its population. The proposed ‘right to food’ is contentious for its cost, coverage and efficacy. This lecture is about what reforms offer the best prospects. Bharat Ramaswami, Planning Unit, India Statistical Institute and Ashok Kotwal, Economics, UBC. This […]
Re-Imagining and Indigenizing the Library's Role in Educating New Teachers
The role of libraries will be examined — specifically the Education Library, First Nations House of Learning Xwi7xwa Library, and more broadly, school libraries. The re-imagined teacher education program has inspired revision in the role Education librarians play to respectfully and meaningfully integrate First Nations history, content, and world-views; commit to inquiry and research oriented […]