A “human orrery” that models the solar system has been on display during January in the foyer of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. You can find out more about the project here:
Live-in for Literacy project at Learning Centre featured in the Vancouver Sun
From January 16, 2009 to January 26, two students are camping in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre foyer to raise support, awareness and funds for global literacy.
The UBC students are participating as part of Live-in for Literacy 2009, a project that involves university students across Canada living in libraries. The aim is to raise funds to construct libraries in India.
UBC is the only university in Western Canada to take part in the event, and UBC Library has donated $1,000 to the cause.
You can view the press release here:
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/media/releases/2009/mr-09-008.html
And you can view a recent story in the Vancouver Sun here:
UBC Library featured in Fine Books and Collections magazine
UBC Library and the Chung Collection are featured in an article on Vancouver’s book culture in the January 2009 issue of Fine Books & Collections magazine.
The article is by Nicholas Basbanes, an author who recently read and spoke at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
You can view the piece here:
http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/200901/vancouver-1.phtml
Learning Centre-backed digitization project in the Times Colonist, Globe and Mail
A new B.C. electronic resource that involves support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre has launched.
The British Colonist Digitization project is a joint venture with the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper and the University of Victoria Library, with support from other organizations including the Learning Centre. The project involves the digitization of issues of the British Colonist newspaper (a precursor to the Times Colonist).
Articles on the project are featured in the Victoria Times Colonist and the Globe and Mail. You can view the articles here:
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1059621
And here is a link to the project website’s search page:
Gabor Mate
Image Credit: UBC Library, Gabor Mate
For over ten years Gabor Maté has been the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. His patients are challenged by life-threatening drug addictions, schizophrenia, mental illness, Hepatitis C, HIV and, in many cases, all four. But if Dr. Maté’s patients are at the far end of the spectrum, how many of us are also struggling with addictions?
Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, work, food, sex, gambling and excessive inappropriate spending: what is amiss with our lives that we seek such self-destructive ways to comfort ourselves? And why is it so difficult to stop these habits, even as they threaten our health, jeopardize our relationships and corrode our lives?
In 2008, in addition to his many other speaking engagements across Canada, Dr. Mate has been guest lecturer at Washington State University and a visiting professor at McGill University in the Faculty of Medicine. His next book, to be published in 2010, will be The Making and Unmaking of Bullies and Victims: A New Look at a Contemporary Malaise, co-written with developmental psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld.
Gabor Mate read at the Lillooet Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on December 04 2008.
Friends newsletter Fall/Winter 2008/09
The Fall/Winter 2008/09 issue of Friends, UBC Library’s newsletter, is now available.
You can view a PDF of the issue here:
Ian Wilson – Keynote Speech
Describing the new information landscape and its impact on libraries and archives, Ian Wilson examines the Canadian approach to history in the age of Wikipedia and Facebook, as well as the participatory nature of knowledge in the 21st century. Wilson also discusses the role of knowledge organizations, and outlines his vision for Canada’s digital strategy and the Canada Project. Finally, he discusses how digitization can help Canada succeed in the knowledge economy. Sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, this webcast took place on December 1, 2008 at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centres Victoria Learning Theatre.
Speaker Biography
Ian Wilson is a former chief Librarian and Archivist of Canada. Appointed in 2004, he had previously (as of July 1999) been National Archivist of Canada. With Roch Carrier, the then National Librarian, he developed and led the process to link the National Archive and National Library as a unified institution. His distinguished career has included archival and information management, university teaching and government service. In addition, he has published extensively on history, archives, heritage, and information management and has lectured both nationally and abroad. Wilson retired as head of LAC in April 2009.
UBC Library Resources
Wilson, I. E. (1995). Reflections on archival strategies. American Archivist,58(4), 414-428. [Link]
Wilson, I. E. (2012). “Peace, order and good government”: archives in society.Archival Science, 12(2), 235-244. [Link]
UBC Research Guides
Crossroads Conference at the Learning Centre
The Crossroads Conference helps bring people together. In our busy, hurried everyday lives, students and the leaders of society rarely have the opportunity to converse and work together.
For the first time, however, students from secondary schools across Metro Vancouver have the exclusive opportunity to cross paths with the social, environmental and economic leaders of Vancouver. Students will meet, converse and learn from these distinguished individuals, and understand how they can work together to bring positive change to Vancouver.
Students will participate in discussions led by members of the Honorary Board of Trustees, and they will get the chance to present their ideas and proposals during the conference.
The Crossroads Conference will be held on February 28, 2009 at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Hebb Theatre at the University of British Columbia. It is a one-day event that lasts from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. with lunch included for all delegates and volunteers. Registration begins in December 2009.
For more informaion, please see www.crossroadsconference.ca.
Introducing "Insight," UBC Library's Faculty newsletter
Welcome to Insight, UBC Library’s newsletter for faculty. You can view a PDF of Insight here:
UBC Players' Club on display at UBC AMS Gallery
An in-depth exhibit of UBC’s first student club will be on display from Monday, November 24 to Friday, November 28 in the UBC AMS Gallery, located in the Student Union Building on the Point Grey campus. This show is part of UBC’s Centenary Celebration (http://www.100.ubc.ca/welcome.html).
The group’s rich legacy of archives is also being digitized, thanks to a grant from the B.C. History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. For more on this program, please visit http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/ps/BCDigitInfo.html.
The UBC Players’ Club was one of the most prestigious students clubs at UBC. It was founded by Professor Frederic Wood in 1915 as a means to inspire his students with the power of dramatic literature thorough production and performance. The club provided audiences with the latest plays from Broadway, the West End and cutting-edge American theatres including the Provincetown Playhouse and Players Workshop, Chicago; mainstream modern fare from British theatre; and new Canadian work.
Over its 51-year lifespan, the club impacted the cultural life of the UBC campus and the city of Vancouver. The club’s influence was also felt in communities throughout B.C. thanks to annual spring tours. The club has been revived in recent years.
The UBC display will feature more than a half a century’s worth of memorabilia including programs, photos, scrapbooks, programs and audio clips. The curators are Norman Young, assisted by BFA Design candidate Ellie Kim, and presented by the Department of Theatre and Film with help from students who are active in the Players’ Club 2008.
Talks with past and present members will be held and recorded on-site. The Alumni Forum takes place on Wednesday, November 26 at 2 p.m., and the Member Forum takes place on Friday, November 28 at 2 p.m. To attend these, please RSVP by November 20 to 604-822-2678.
For more information, please visit www.theatre.ubc.ca/players_club_dramatic_impact.shtml.