Dietmar Wolfram – Who are the Disciples and Admirers of an Author?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by SLAIS. Recitation (the act of citing a given author or her/his works multiple times) provides an indication of the influence of a cited author. This study investigated patterns of citation and recitation across frequently cited authors’ works to better understand how broadly […]
Elizabeth Denham – Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by SLAIS. Open Data and Open Government represent a brave new world of information-sharing for citizens. Drawing on examples from the provincial, national and international realm, B.C.’s Information and Privacy Commissioner will discuss the opportunities and challenges of information and data-sharing in the context of […]
Joan Mitchell – The Dewey Ecosystem
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by SLAIS. Joan S. Mitchell is Editor-in-Chief of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system at OCLC. There is a rich ecosystem associated with the Dewey Decimal Classification beyond what is visible in the iconic library shelf application of the system. Dewey numbers are associated with […]
Robert Majzels and Erín Mouré – Play Chthonics: New Canadian Readings
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Robert Majzels is a novelist, playwright, poet and translator, born in Montréal, Québec, and is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Calgary. He has published four novels: Hellman’s Scrapbook, City of Forgetting, Apikoros Sleuth, and The Humbugs Diet. […]
Ethan Zuckerman – Cute Cats and the Arab Spring: When Social Media Meet Social Change
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The 2011 Vancouver Human Rights Lecture is presented by the Laurier Institution, Yahoo!, UBC Continuing Studies and CBC Radio One. Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the […]
Amber Ridington – After Digital Repatriation: Articulations of Heritage, Community, and Cultural Property in a Northern Athapascan Hunting Group
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Using examples from her collaborative and applied work with the Doig River First Nation, a Dane-zaa Athapaskan group in northeastern BC, folklorist Amber Ridington will discuss some of the issues of cultural representation and […]
William Cope – Digital Literacy: Changing the Dynamics of Learning
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by SLAIS. We can use new technologies to do conventional, old things—as we do when we transfer Gutenberg’s typographic schemas onto desktops or the heritage logic of classrooms into learning management systems. This presentation explores seven ‘affordances’—things we could do differently with new media technologies, […]
Michael Eisenberg – Project Information Literacy: What College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by SLAIS (School of Library, Archival and Information Studies), and School Library Day Colloquium (Co-Sponsored with the UBC Education Library). Project Information Literacy (PIL) is ongoing research project, based in the University of Washington’s Information School. The project seeks to understand how early adults conceptualize […]
Paul Whitney – Keep Calm and Carry On or Freak Out and Throw Stuff; The Public Library Moving Forward
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and sponsored by SLAIS (School of Library, Archival and Information Studies). Amid escalating disruptive change in content provision and the widening economic malaise, the viability of public libraries is increasingly questioned. Drawing on his experience as a public librarian and copyright user rights advocate, Paul Whitney […]