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Standing Out While Fitting In: Succeeding in Academic Library Culture

A panel of librarians will discuss how to navigate a career in academic libraries.

"Chew On This" Sustainability Week Lectures at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

"Chew On This" Sustainability Week Lectures at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

As part of UBC’s Sustainability initiative, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, in partnership with Common Energy UBC, Oxfam UBC, and the UBC Commerce Undergraduate Society’s Sustainability Committee present “Chew On This,” a week-long series of lectures, panel discussions, and workshops.  Common Energy UBC is a student-run organization of diverse and forward-thinking individuals working to incorporate sustainability into all […]

Addressing Injustice: UBC’s Response to the Internment of Japanese Canadian Students

On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre hosted a symposium

World Poetry Call for Peace Poems for International Peace Festival at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

World Poetry Call for Peace Poems for our International Peace Festival in May!  Guidelines: Poems need to be dedicated to peace or for peace. One page only, two pages in another language Deadline:  April 15th , 2012, Poems need to have copyright © and include the name of poet and country. All selected poems will […]

Open Access Resource: World Digital Library

We are highlighting a fairly new open access resource, the World Digital Library (WDL)

Featured Place at IKBLC: Kitimat

This week we will take a look at Kitimat.

Who Benefits From Animal Research? webcast online

The IKBLC recently sponsored a webcast of this lecture, “Who Benefits From Animal Research?”

Health Information Series Presents Dr. Roger Wong at Richmond Public Library

Health Information Series Presents Dr. Roger Wong of UBC Faculty of Medicine