Minghui Yu
Jack Lohman – iSchool@UBC Research Day Keynote
Live Webcast – begins at 11.00AM on March 8, 2013. Tune in and view the lecture here on this page — for full screen view, click on upper right hand.
Freedom to Read Week @ IKBLC
Thursday, February 28th from 8 am – 8 pm in the Lilloet Room in IKBLC.
Anatoliy Gruzd – Automated Discover and Visualization of Communication Networks from Social Media
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). As social creatures, our online lives just like our offline lives are intertwined with others within a wide variety of social networks. Each retweet on Twitter, comment on a blog or link to a […]
Carol Tilley – Children, Comics, Critics, and the Researcher
In April 1953, eleven-year old Brian McLaughlin wrote to psychiatrist Fredric Wertham in response to the latter’s article in Reader’s Digest, “Comic Books – Blueprints for Delinquency.” The boy asserted confidently: “Anybody that goes out and kills someone because he read a comic book is a simple minded idiot. Sound silly? So does your item.” […]
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Celebrates Black History Month in February 2013
Display exhibition at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 2nd floor foyer
Idle Know More: A Space For Inquiry
Feb 27, 2013, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Irving K Barber Learning Centre – Seminar Room 2.22A
Anthony Grafton – Apocalypse in the stacks? The research library in the age of Google
March 20, 2013, 12.00 to 2.00PM at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Victoria Learning Theatre (Room 182)
Andrew Kaufman, Camille Martin and Barry Webster
Robson Reading Series Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 7pm UBC Bookstore at Robson Square.
Al Hunter
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 6:30 pm at the First Nations Longhouse at UBC.