Once Upon a Pop-up

01 May 2018 - 31 May 2018

Venue: Irving K, Barber Learning Centre Foyer

Rare Books and Special Collections at UBC Library is delighted to announce a new exhibition, located in the IKBLC Foyer: Once Upon a Pop-up!

The exhibition, curated by UBC Master of Library and Information Studies candidates Lucas Hill, Brooklyn Kemp, Sarah Khan, and Meaghan Smith, under the supervision of Professor Kathie Shoemaker, is a selection of pop-up books from RBSC’s children’s literature collection, ranging from the horror-filled to the historical, from the architectural to Alice in Wonderland.

Graduate Students in Teaching; Mini Conference 2018

01 May 2018 9:30 am

Venue: Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

This conference is an opportunity for students to focus on the present and future role of graduate students in teaching: graduate students teaching now, as well as graduate students as future faculty. This conference is free for all undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows, but registration is required.

Open Scholarship in Practice Day

02 May 2018 9:00 am

Venue: Dodson Room (302) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Learn about new tools that can increase the reproducibility of research, and new pedagogies that become possible when students and faculty become co-creators engaged in generative knowledge creation. Hear from UBC colleagues who are incorporating “openness” in innovative ways to enhance teaching, research, and publishing.