Kate Hennessy – Repatriation, Digital Media, and Culture in the Virtual Museum
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Many Canadian First Nations and Aboriginal organizations are using digital media to revitalize their languages and assert control over the representation of their cultures. At the same time, museums, academic institutions, and individuals are […]
Ingrid Parent – Fast forward: 21st century libraries in a global context
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS) colloquium series. In today’s changing information society, knowledge curation is in demand, information literacy is essential, and those entering the workforce must be ready to demonstrate new competencies. No doubt, the library is a […]
Eliza Dresang – Project VIEWS: Early Learning Initiatives That Work Successfully (or Do They?)
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Abstract: How do we know whether early learning initiatives in which public libraries are involved work? That is, what is the impact on early learners? Dr. Eliza Dresang, the Early Learning Public Library Partnership, […]
George Buchanan – Supporting the Reading of Digital Books
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS) and the Digital Information Interaction Group. Libraries have traditionally stored large volumes of physical documents, and, in recent years, this has been supplemented by an increasing proportion of digital texts. Whilst there has been […]
Geoffrey Yeo – Speech Act Theory and Concepts of the Record
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). The philosophers J. L. Austin and John Searle developed speech act theory in the twentieth century. This talk will provide a brief introduction to the theory and then explore some aspects of it that […]
Ann Curry – Silencing by Shouting Down: Acceptable Censorship in 2010?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Dr. Curry’s research interests include Censorship and Intellectual Freedom, Information Ethics, Library Architecture, Public Libraries, Collection Management, and Issues in LIS Education. She is currently Professor at the Department of Education, University of Alberta. […]
Lissa Paul – Keywords For Children's Literature
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Master of Arts in Children’s Literature (MACL) program, the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, the Departments of Language and Literacy Education, English, and the Creative Writing Program, SLAIS presents Lissa Paul. As scholars working in children’s literature know all too […]
Michael Gurstein – Community Informatics
The application of information and communications technology (ICT) to enable and empower community processes, the goal of Community Informatics is to use information communication technologies (ICT) to enable the achievement of community objectives including overcoming “digital divides” both within and between communities. However, community informatics goes beyond discussions of the “Digital Divide” to examine how […]
Jack Zipes – Utopian Tendencies of Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
Jack Zipes is one of the worlds leading authorities on fairy tales, writing about and translating them. An internationally renowned scholar and author of more than 50 books on many subjects, he has through his writings transformed research on fairy tales, particularly with respect to how they function in the socialization of readers. Jack Zipes […]
Sandra Singh – The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?
Presented by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS) Colloquium Series, The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, which is part of the UBC Library system, has an intriguing and ambitious mission relating to its physical geography and that of the province of BC. As part of a vast campus community, the Learning Centre […]