Learning Centre featured in Open Door newsletter
An update on the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is featured on page 3 of Open Door, the newsletter of the B.C. Library Trustees’ Association.
Drippytown exhibit in Vancouver Courier
The Vancouver Courier features an article on the exhibit Drippytown: Vancouver Life Through the Eyes of Independent Cartoonists.
Patricia Logie donation, event featured in the Coast Reporter
Patricia Logie, a B.C. artist who has donated her portrait collection Chronicles of Pride to UBC Library, is featured in the Coast Reporter, a Sunshine Coast newspaper.
Pecha Kucha Style Event at IKBLC: Topic – 2010 Olympics
Inspired by the excellent work of the Pecha Kucha Vancouver, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Olympic Programming Group is hosting our first Pecha Kucha inspired Event on Thursday, January 21st starting at 7 pm.
Gallery @ IKBLC Presents *Morph* Exhibit
Visual Arts 300 students for art exhibition in Gallery at IKBLC, Morph (December 8-31st, 2009) Working within the theme of “transformation” on a personal and universal level, Morph is an exhibition of paintings that offer multiple aspects of individuals’ creative focus, academic backgrounds, personal stories and global perspectives. In preceding projects, students have researched and […]
Free Film Screening of Murderball with Q&A with Ian Chan and Duncan Campbell.
November 23, 2009 at 6:00 – 9:00 pm
The Olympics and Freedom of Speech Discussion
November 19, 2009 at 5:30 – 7:00 pm Come and take part in this timely discussion about the Olympics and its effect on our freedom of speech. Expert speakers include: Daniel W. Burnett, UBC Graduate School of Journalism professor, media law expert; Margot Young, UBC Law, constitutional law expert, and coauthor of “Poverty: Human Rights, […]
Arts One and IKBLC Present Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Rousseau
Philosopher, novelist, playwright and composer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) became a leading figure of the Enlightenment as one of its sharpest critics. His Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men (1755)—a trenchant analysis of the political, moral and psychological hazards of civil society, and of the alienation of the modern […]
Arts One and IKBLC Present Shakespeare's Tempest Lecture
Come join us as Killam Teaching Prize-winner Robert Crawford presents “Upstart Crew: Mutinous Winds in Shakespeare’s Tempest”, an Arts One public lecture. Shakespeare’s final, richly allegorical play has been subjected to widely differing interpretation. But two readings persist: 1. it is a thinly disguised commentary on, and farewell to, the stage; 2. it is an […]
Presentation and webcast: Variations in Reading Behaviours
You are invited to view a Mediasite presentation entitled: Variations in Reading Behaviours: What Makes a Difference? This is a live webcast presented by UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. Prof. Carol Tenopir from the University of Tennessee will present her decades-long research on reading patterns in academic libraries. She will discuss the […]