Minghui Yu
Jonathan Kift and Josh Rose – Telling Stories with Data
Webcast sponosred by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS). Topic: What good is open data if we don’t know how to find and use it? The digital age has ushered in new opportunities to better understand our communities and demand accountability from our governments. In […]
Raminder Sidhu – Tears of Mehndi, Lillooet Room, IKBLC on Sept 28, 3PM
A courageous and timely novel, Tears of Mehndi explores the rich, complex and often heartbreaking lives of a tight-knit community in Vancouver’s Little India. Through the perspectives of several women whose lives intertwine over a generation, Raminder Sidhu deftly exposes the shrouded violence within the Indo-Canadian community, a difficult and often dissembled subject. Sidhu’s characters […]
Jan Wong – Out of the Blue
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. In collaboration with the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society’s month of ExplorAsian festival, Jan Wong will read from “Out of the Blue, A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness”. For twenty years, Jan Wong had been one of the Globe and Mail’s best-known […]
Huichol Arts of Mexico presented by MexicoFest 2012
August 1 to September 17, 2012
Telling Stories with Data – SLAIS Presentations (June 15, 2012, 2-3pm)
What good is open data if we don’t know how to find and use it? The digital age has ushered in new opportunities to better understand our communities and demand accountability from our governments. In an intensive two-day master class, digital publishing expert Phillip Smith introduced some of the “working with data” tricks he has learned […]
About Webcasts
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre uses webcasting services as a way to deliver broadcasts through the Internet. The sound and video is captured by video and streamed to YouTube’s server for viewing by end users from the comfort of their desktops. The following document outlines policies and procedures to ensure that webcasting services are […]
Wendy Hall – When Lullabies Are Not Enough
The Library’s Health Information Series is pleased to present a session on the topic of sleep and its effects on children’s and parent’s health. Dr. Wendy Hall, professor at UBC’s School of Nursing, presents “When Lullabies Are Not Enough: Reducing the Impact of Poor Sleep on Infants, Toddlers & Their Parents” which was held at […]
SLAIS Master of Arts in Children's Literature Program
Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable joint colloquium, children’s literature scholar Leonard Marcus on Maurice Sendak
“A Pocketful of Rhymes” presented by the Westcoast Calligraphy (July 3 to July 29th, 2012)
July 3 to July 29th, 2012