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Jami Brown, Lesley Dyck, Peter Bruckmann and Rose Soneff – SPARC Community Developers' Conference – Population Health and Community Development
In “What Have we Learned? Population Health and Community Development” Rose Soneff, Jami Brown, Lesley Dyck, and Peter Bruckmann facilitate a workshop that illustrates some of the new approaches being taken by organizations to address the population’s health using a community development approach. What factors enable this approach to be successful and what are the […]
Picturing Canadian children's literature
A fascinating exhibition that complements the release of a new book on children’s literature is now on display at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) division. Picturing Canada: Canadian Children’s Illustrated Books and Publishing, highlights Canadian picturebooks from the last 200 years. The exhibition includes rare children’s books as well as popular productions […]
New shows at the Learning Centre Gallery
Art fans, take note: two new exhibitions are now on display at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Beyond the Words features portraits of writers by the late Carl Kohler (1919-2006), a Neo-Modernist/Abstract Swedish artist. Subjects including Franz Kafka, Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Günter Grass and others are featured in mediums such as […]
New site bolsters Chung Collection
The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection, a designated national treasure, has a new virtual home. The handsome website, found at http://chung.library.ubc.ca, highlights the Chung Collection’s three main themes: immigration and settlement, early British Columbia history, and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Focus groups consisting of faculty, staff, students and community members provided […]
Ramachandra Guha – Ten Reasons why India will not and must not become a Superpower
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Randall Jimerson – Archivists and the Call of Justice
As part of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, Randall Jimerson presents on the history of recordkeeping and archives, and reveals that they have often been used to consolidate and enforce political power, often to control or oppress people. Far from being neutral repositories for facts and evidence, archives have always been sites […]
Farina Mir – The Punjabi Literary Formation: Language and Affect in a Vernacular Culture
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and lecture hosted by the Department of Asian Studies at UBC as part of the 2nd Annual Celebration of Punjabi in honour of the memory of Harjit K. Sidhu, Professor Farina Mir explores the contours of a colonial-era Punjabi literary formation in India. That is, those […]
Jack Zipes' Utopian Tendencies of Oddly Modern Fairy Tales IKBLC webcast
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
UBC site of major library conference in 2012
UBC has been selected as the host campus for the 2012 meeting of the ALADN Conference. ALADN, which stands for the Academic Library Advancement and Development Network, is a group that focuses on fundraising and development issues for academic and research libraries in North America. Members include professionals involved in development and advancement. UBC was […]
Sandra Singh – The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.