Event Category Archives: News

Show-Case Exhibition – The Chapman Learning Commons

The Chapman Learning Commons (CLC) and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre presents a Show-Case created by the CLC Assistants. The CLCAs share original artwork capturing the nuances of Chapman Learning Commons lending equipment, campus study spaces, mascot, and projects. Including a collaboration with the Coaches Corner, the display showcases peer academic coaching where you […]

Equity Enhancement Fund Workshop

The Equity and Inclusion office hosts this interactive workshop sessions with students, staff and faculty who have received Equity Enhancement fund at UBC.

Walter "Robby" RobinsonSpotlight on the Church: Vancouver Institute & Irving K. Barber Centre Lecture

Spotlight on the Church: How Sex Abuse Went Unnoticed For So Long, And What It Took To Expose It. Mr. Walter “Robby” Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Boston Globe where he currently holds the title of Editor-At-Large.  He led the Globe‘s coverage of the Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal, for […]

One Day @ UBC: Calling Cartographers: Learn Open Source Geographic Information Systems

Learn how to create maps using free and open source software for Geographic Information Systems. By the end of the course, you have an understanding of free data sources, types of data, and how to create and publish your own unique map of Vancouver. The main software used will be QGIS; personal laptops are required. […]

Credit: PexelsExploring the CURE: A Symposium on Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences

Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been developing since at least 2000 at the University of British Columbia. This pedagogical innovation is consistent with UBC’s strategic vision of providing its undergraduates with opportunities for enhanced educational experiences as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science which called for the integration of authentic […]

How do you map diseases? A look into the world of GIScience and medical geography with Emily Acheson

UBC Library’s Visualizing the World: A Maps and Geographic Information Systems Speaker Series continues with a talk on January 23, 2018 at 12 p.m in the Lillooet Room at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre features a talk by PhD candidiate in Geography at UBC, Emily Acheson.

Seeing Voices: Using Light to Restore and Preserve Early Recorded Sound

Dr. Carl Haber is an experimental physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley who has developed innovative technologies for the non-invasive capture and digitization of sound from fragile, damaged, or obsolete recording media (including early 20th century wax cylinder recordings of Indigenous languages that are now critically endangered or […]

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 10th Anniversary Exhibitions

Ten years ago, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) celebrated its grand opening on UBC’s Vancouver campus. As a technology-forward place of learning, the four-story building is a focal point of education for students and researchers and has become an innovative fixture on campus.

In celebration of this 10-year milestone, UBC Library is installing two temporary exhibitions on Levels 1 and 2 of IKBLC.

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 10th Anniversary exhibitions are on display from August 27 through October 30, 2018.