Dr. Susan Parker – Beyond Borges: Telling Tales of Future Libraries
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC iSchool. In the post-print information era, how do libraries manage scholarly information? Academic libraries have developed alongside technology, but technology is now changing the structures of information creation, dissemination, retrieval, and preservation. The use of technology in and by libraries, and by […]
AABC Webcast Roundtable: Audiovisual Records in a Digital Age
AABC Webcast Roundtable: Audiovisual Records in a Digital Age The AABC is pleased to partner with the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC to present our 7th webcast roundtable on “Audiovisual Records in a Digital Age”. Motion picture films and audio and video recordings are found in every archival collection. These visual records play an […]
Dr. Melanie Feinberg, Factotem: What Is Information Access For?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC iSchool. Abstract: In this talk, I seek to understand what we mean by information access, and what it means to provide information access in a responsible way. Specifically, I examine the idea of facts. How should providers of information deal with […]
Language reconstruction and strengthening community: the role of archival resources
Daryl Baldwin is a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Director of the Myaamia Center at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The Myaamia Center is a unique collaborative effort supported by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio for the purpose of advancing the language and cultural needs of […]
Open Scholarly Practice
“Open scholarship, which encompasses open access, open data, open educational resources, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, is changing how knowledge is created and shared.” Association of Research Libraries Open Scholarship In this session, we’ll explore ideas of scholarly practice in the digital age and how they can inform […]
Digital Preservation Management Roundtable: Best Practices vs. Reality
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | November 17, 2016 |Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC). This program is a conversation and discuss how they are working towards implementing what they learned to manage the digital records in their archives. The roundtable as a follow-up to the 3-day workshop on Digital Preservation Management. They will share strategies and tools from the workshop and discuss the steps required to develop an effective digital preservation program.
Emily Drabinski – Intersections with Power: Critical Teaching and the Library Catalogue
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | June 1, 2016 | As teaching librarians, we introduce our students to knowledge organization structures that enable inquiry and curiosity in the library, but also use language and logic that we might otherwise contest.
Building Research Data Management Services and Infrastructure in Canada and at UBC
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | March 1, 2016, 1:00-2:30pm | Dodson Room (302) | Dugan O’Neil, Compute Canada Chief Science Officer, and Chuck Humphrey, Director of Portage, will talk about collaborative initiatives for research data management and what they mean to various stakeholder communities, including, researchers, funding agencies, libraries, research service offices, ethics boards, IT units, and others.
AABC: Outreach, Fundraising, and Donor Relationships
February 26, 2016 | 10:30am-12:30pm | RSVP at aabc.advisor@aabc.ca by Monday, Feb. 22 | Building and maintaining donor relationships is a key aspect of daily archival work for many organizations. This can happen through simple outreach activities or grand fundraising events that shine attention on our archival treasures and our need for funding to preserve them.
Decolonize or Indigenize?: Transitionising for the information profession
Library and information institutions are colonial constructs that have collected and organized indigenous knowledge, but are they really inclusive? Using examples from Canada and New Zealand, this talk considers whether the answer to this question is to decolonize these institutions or to focus on indigenizing them. Speaker As Dodson Visiting Professor at the UBC iSchool […]