"Just Google it": Algorithms of Oppression
December 8, Tuesday 2015 | 2:00-4:00pm | Douglas College 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, Room 2201 | Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
National School Library Day – The Place and Space for Canadian Children's Literature in Our Lives and Libraries
October 27, Tuesday 2015 | 5:00-6:00pm, at the Victoria Learning Theatre (Room 185), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Anahera Morehu – Housing the knowledge of tangata whenua (indigenous people)
Monday, August 10, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m, Lillooet Room (Level 3), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Julie McLeod – Tackling the wicked problem of managing records in the digital environment
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the iSchool at UBC. Drawing on her research on electronic records management, in particular the AC+erm (Accelerating positive change in electronic records management https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/acerm) project, Dr. Julie McLeod will argue that ERM is a ‘wicked problem.’ She will discuss how the Cynefin framework, […]
"Food In Transit" – Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Menu Exhibition talk by Robert Sung
November 19, 2014, 12.00pm to 1.00pm at the Dodson Room (Rm 302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Barbara Wildemuth – A Conversation on Mixed Methods Research, With a Focus on Why and How
November 5, 12:00-1:00pm in the Dodson Room (Rm 302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Vivian Howard – Reading Practices in a Digital World: Two Case Studies
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 5:00-6.00PM at the Dodson Room (Rm 302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Archives Association of British Columbia
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and event hosted by the Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC). How do you manage photographs when you cannot determine who owned them or who holds copyright over them or you don’t know anything about the content of the photograph itself. Do you have a policy […]
Citizen Science: Information, Technology and People
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Citizens have been informally contributing to science for hundreds of years. One of the best known modern examples is of sightings by bird watchers. The Christmas Bird Count, an annual national count in the […]