What: It’s a 2 day unconference! A participant-driven meeting featuring lightning talks in the mornings, breakout sessions in the afternoons, with coffee, tea and snacks provided. Lightning talks are brief presentations which are typically 5-10 minutes in length on topics related to library technologies. Breakout sessions are an opportunity to bring participants together in an ad hoc fashion for a short, yet sustained period of problem solving, software development and fun.
When: December 1 & 2, 2016
Where: UBC Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room
Who: A diverse and open community of library developers and non-developers engaging in effective, collaborative problem-solving through technology regardless of their department or background.
Why: Why not? code4libBC is a group of dynamic library technology practitioners throughout the province who want to build new relationships as much as develop new software solutions to problems.
Cost: $30, please click here to register for this event.
Code of Conduct: As a Code4Lib event, we adhere to the Code4Lib Code of Conduct, which seeks to provide a welcoming, harassment-free environment. Please see the Code of Conduct for further details or check out their past events here. For more information including schedule, talks and sessions sign up, please see the code4libBC wiki page.
Given the legacy of 500 years of colonization, sharing and telling stories for children and young adults about difficult truths is important in moving forward towards reconciliation. As part of the journey, increased sensibilities and approaches are needed and give rise to many questions. How can children’s literature be decolonized and made appropriate for 21st century learners? What role do writers, illustrators, teachers, teacher-librarians and children’s librarians play in the process? What ethical and respectful approaches are employed to decolonize the creation, dissemination and use of literature, especially about issues that readers find stressful and upsetting? Who should tell the stories? What are the risks and benefits of appropriation and commodification of cultural heritage? And what critical analysis skills are essential when promoting and sharing literature that is both historic and an ongoing expression of colonization? Join our School Library Day conversation, to hear from our panelists.
Event Details:
When: October 26, 2016 4:00-6:00 pm
Where: Irving K. Barber Centre Chilcotin Board Room (Room 256)
Panelists:
Maggie De Vries will talk as a writer and editor. She edited Fatty Legs and A Stranger at Home and wrote the teen novel, Rabbit Ears.
Gordon Powell will provide insights as a teacher, teacher-librarian and district principal for Aboriginal Education in Surrey about First Nations collections and integrating aboriginal content.
Julie Flett will speak about her work as a Cree-Metis Canadian author and illustrator and how she indigenizes picture books for children.
Arushi Raina will comment about apartheid and growing up as a teenager in South Africa and how that influenced her debut young adult novel, When Morning Comes.
Free event, featuring light food and refreshments.
Webcasts of past National School Library Day Events include:
The BC Research Libraries Group and SFU Library are proud to present a morning program exploring the theme of “Open in Action”.
What Do We Want? (We’re Not Sure!) When Do We Want It? (Hard to Say!): Reconciling the Needs of Analysis and Advocacy in Scholarly-Communication Reform.
Speakers: Rick Andersen, Associate Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication at the University of Utah, and President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
Reforming scholarly communication is a tough job, made tougher by factors that include the lack of unanimity among stakeholders as to what reform should look like (or whether it’s needed at all); the wide variety of needs and interests among the system’s stakeholders; the structural complexity of the system itself; the lack of unanimity as to what “open access” means; the heavy weight of tradition in academic practice; and the high level of emotion that inevitably accompanies discussion of these issues. The difficulty and complexity of the reform project suggest that analysis is needed, but the moral and emotional weight of the issues involved naturally lead us in the direction of advocacy instead—and advocacy and analysis are, unfortunately, natural enemies. In this session we will review salient aspects of the scholarly-communication landscape that make reform particularly challenging, some principles for addressing those challenges, and some possible mechanisms for applying these principles to bridge perspectives, including strategies for including the all-important authors’ voice.
Event Details
When: October 25, 2016 | 9:30-10:30 am
Where: Simon Fraser University Vancouver Campus, Room 7000
Open in Action: A Panel Discussion
Speakers: Juan Pablo Alperin, Assistant Professor, SFU Publishing; Gwen Bird, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian, SFU; Rajiv Jhanghiani, Department of Psychology, KPU.
Barrier-free access to research and resources is not just a nice idea: it is a necessity that is being supported with concrete actions by leaders in BC universities. Join us in conversation with individuals who are taking concrete actions that advance the concept of Openness in higher education, scholarship, and the community at large. These panelists will talk about initiatives they are involved in, such as those that support the development and use of open textbooks; investigate who uses open access journal articles and under what conditions; build infrastructure for scholarly publishing; address community needs for information
Specifically, our panelists will talk about how their work intersects with the idea of Open and what motivates them towards putting Open into action. Following short presentations, there will be a moderated discussion.
Event Details
When: October 25, 2016 | 11:00-12:00 pm
Where: Simon Fraser University Vancouver Campus, Room 7000
The events are open to all and free but seating is limited and registration is required. Click here to register.
International Open Access Week is a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions and organizations across the world. For more information about International Open Access Week, please visit the website.
What is going on with the sexual assault policy at UBC? What are the limitations? How can we (re)write the policy by centering a culturally appropriate approach? You’re invited to learn about the proposed policy from Dr. Sara-Jane Finlay, Associate Vice-President, Equity & Inclusion. Dr. Lucia Lorenzi, panel member, recent UBC alumna, and anti-violence activist, will also talk about the expert panel recommendations. Following a moderated Q+A session, we will discuss and (re)imagine the policy through a student-led art activity. Come learn about the policy, make art, and have your voice heard. Lunch will be provided!
When: Thursday, Oct. 20 (12:30-2:00 pm) Where: Chilcotin Room (256), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall, Vancouver RSVP: http://ACAMrethinkspolicy.eventbrite.ca
Questions will be welcome. Here are some to think about:
How do you feel this policy reflects your needs and cultural identities?
What can students do to impact the policy?
What kinds of changes do you want to see take place?
How do you want the university to engage students regarding the policy in a culturally appropriate way?
In thinking through how we want to make and take up space, we are prioritizing this event as a student and survivor-centric space that centers Indigenous and POC students (particularly Asian Canadian student communities). Please be mindful of this if you plan on attending. If you have any questions or concerns about what it means to be an ally, feel free to contact acam.events@ubc.ca.
Accessibility Info:
If resources are available, language support can be provided if needed. We are also able to provide ASL interpretation if needed. To request these services, please contact acam.events@ubc.ca by Oct. 13.
There will be an active listener available during and after the dialogue if folks need to check in with someone.
Food (meat, vegetarian, and gluten-free) will be provided. Please let us know if you have any special dietary needs.
If you have questions or other accessibility needs, please email acam.events@ubc.ca
This event is organized by the ACAM Dialogues: Extending the Conversation on Sexual Violence in Asian Communities on Campus and Beyond project. These dialogues examine the intersections of race, gender, and violence, especially as they impact Asian student communities and open up spaces for students to share experiences and resources, build analyses, and discuss strategies of organizing against sexual and other forms of violence. The series will culminate in a public symposium in Spring 2017 to bring these conversations to a wider audience at UBC and beyond. For more information, please visit http://acamdialogues.arts.ubc.ca
This event will be taking place on the traditional, unceded, ancestral homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation. We recognize that sexual violence plays a key role in colonial and gendered violence, and continues to affect Indigenous communities. As the land which UBC is situated on was taken without consent, we ask settlers to consider what it means to be good guests.
Join us for a free discussion with a panel of experts who will explain what personalized medicine can tell you about your potential for heart health issues, and how doctors and researchers in British Columbia are collaborating to identify your risks, detect early warning signs and deliver individualized treatments. Learn how implementation of personalized medicine into BC healthcare can change clinical practice, improve health outcomes, and reduce health costs. This event will include a brief presentation from each panelist, followed by Q & A with the audience.
When: Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Time: 6-8 pm
Location: The Orpheum Annex- 823 Seymour Street, Vancouver BC
Panelists:
Dr. Andrew Krahn, Sauder Family and Heart and Stroke Foundation Chair in Cardiology
Dr. Andrew Penn, Director, Stroke Rapid Assessment Unit, Victoria General Hospital
Dr. Filip Van Petegem, Professor, UBC Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
The Talk will be moderated by Elaine Yong, Senior Communications Specialist, Media Relations, for Providence Healthcare & hosted by Dr. Pieter Cullis, Director, UBC Life Sciences Institute.
This is a free event and walk-ins are welcome. However, space is limited so please click here to register.
For more information on heart health, please visit the Heart and Stroke Foundation website. For those interested the discussion document entitled Roadmap for Bringing Personalized Medicine to British Columbians is available for download here {PDF}.
The Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC) and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre are pleased to present a livestream webcast roundtable as a follow-up to the 3-day workshop on Digital Preservation Management. They will share strategies and tools from the workshop and discuss the steps required to develop an effective digital preservation program.
November 17, 2016, 10:00am – 12:00pm at the Lillooet Room (Rm 301)
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Participants from the workshop will join the conversation and discuss how they are working towards implementing what they learned to manage the digital records in their archives.
The AABC would like to invite students to take part in the roundtable by joining them in person or following them on the live web broadcast. Details on how to send in comments and questions via email and twitter will be posted closer to the date.
If you would like to join the AABC in person at the roundtable, please RSVP to aabc.advisor@aabc.ca by Monday, November 14.
The Archives Association of British Columbia’s previous webcasts included:
TomoeArts will be screening a series of full live video performances from their Shôchiku’s Kabuki Meisakusen Series at the I. K Barber Learning Centre. The performances feature several talented onnagata (female role) actors such as Nakamura Jakuemon IV (1920-2012) and Bandô Tamasaburô. All screenings will be held at the I. K Barber Learning Centre in Chilcotin Room, room 256.
Sumidagawa: The Sumida River
When: Monday October 17,2016 7:00-8:30 pm
The first screening is the moving dance play Sumidagwa (The Sumida River), featuring Kiyomoto style music and was first premiered in 1919. The performance follows a desperate woman from Kyôto searching for her lost son. Her journey brings her to the banks of the Edo’s Sumida River where she encounters a boatman to take her across the river in search for her son. This role, played by Nakamura Jakuemon IV, is considered one of the most challenging female roles in kabuki.
Akoya-The Courtesan Akoya
When: Monday January 23, 2017 7:00-8:30 pm
Akoya is a scene from the puppet play Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki which first premiered in 1732 and was later restaged as a kabuki play. This scene, originally known as the “Koto Torture Scene”, shows Shigetada questioning the courtesan Akoya on where her lover, the defeated Heike warrior Kagekiyo, is. Shigetada forces Akoya to answer his questions while she plays various traditional Japanese instruments such as the koto, shamisen and kokyû (lap fiddle). The actor who plays Akoya requires years of special training to be able to play all three musical instruments on stage for this performance.
Ninin Dôjôji-The Two Maidens at the Dôjô Temple
When: Monday March 13, 2017 7:00-8:30 pm
This performance shows the two-dancer version of the famous play, Musume Dôjôji, where the double spirit of Kiyohime comes to the Dôjô temple as shirabyôshi dancers, Hanako and Sakurako. Their jealous serpent-selves are revealed as they destroy the bell that once hid their lover who ran away from them.
Tomoe (pronounced toh-moh-ay) Arts is a company based in Vancouver, Canada that promotes, teaches, and performs nihon buyoh or Japanese classical dance. They also create and present performances incorporating the forms and aesthetics of Japanese traditional performing arts. Visit TomoeArts to learn more.
All entrance is free and there will be English commentary provided at all recordings. The nearest parking for the I. K Barber Learning Centre are the Rose Garden and North Parkades. Parking at UBC is $7 after 5pm. Find other parking on campus here.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. At the December 2015 Paris climate conference (COP21), 195 countries agreed to reduce their carbon emissions and limit global climate change. While the agreement was ambitious, it also recognized that less developed countries would require more time to begin reducing their emissions. While some question whether it is fair to hold them to the same standard as societies that grew wealthy from carbon-driven industry, it is also clear that many of these countries have the most to lose. What structural changes need to be made to allow less developed countries to combat climate change as equal partners? Are there technologies that will allow them to leapfrog carbon and achieve sustainable economic growth?
Join us for a provocative UBC Dialogues program where experts will examine the challenges and opportunities facing less developed countries in the years ahead.
This event took place at the Telus garden on September 19, 2016.
Simon Donner– Associate Professor, UBC Department of Geography
Sumeet Gulati– Associate Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at the UBC Faculty of Land & Food Systems
Sybil Seitzinger– Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
Martino Tran– Assistant Professor, UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP); Associate Faculty Member, UBC Department of Civil Engineering.
Biographies
Lisa Johnson, BSC’02, MJ/04
Lisa Johnson is a reporter for CBC News in Vancouver. She specializes in science and environment stories, from E. coli and isotopes to carbon offsets and killer whales. As a general assignment news reporter, she’s also covered kidnappings, earthquakes, and has won a RTDNA award for her live reports from the Stanley Cup Riot.
Before she became a storyteller, Lisa thought she was going to be a scientist. She graduated from UBC with an Honours degree in biology after pipetting stickleback DNA, counting kelp, and watching fish mating dances.
She returned to UBC for her master’s in journalism, focusing on science and risk communications. She still takes interest in things that many journalists hate, including animal carcasses and math.
Simon Donner
Simon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at UBC, as well as an associate in UBC’s Liu Institute for Global Issues, Biodiversity Research Centre and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and the Atmospheric Sciences Program. He came to UBC after a few years in the Science, Technology and Environment Program in the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He spent his undergraduate days at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He also did a master’s degree in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and a PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin with the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment.
Sumeet Gulati
Sumeet Gulati is the Associate Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of British Columbia, studying the economics of urban transportation. Sumeet completed his BA in Economics at the University of Mumbai and then his Masters at the University of Delhi before moving to the USA to complete his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland.
Sumeet’s other research interests include; the impact of international trade on the environment, the effectiveness of Carbon Taxes and the Environmental Policy and the cost-effectiveness of programs designed to improve energy–efficiency.
Along with his co-authors Sumeet asks: at their modest values, do carbon taxes reduce gasoline consumption? Do they encourage people to buy fuel efficient vehicles? Do older consumers, especially women, perform better or worse while negotiating a price for a new car? What are the economics of car sharing—like Car2Go, and Evo? And what explains the autonomous emergence of electric rickshaws in India?
Sybil Seitzinger
Dr. Sybil Seitzinger is the executive director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions and a professor in the School of Environmental Studies.
Dr. Seitzinger holds a PhD in biological oceanography from the University of Rhode Island and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is highly cited, with more than 130 peer-reviewed publications to her credit.
Her research has centered on nutrient biogeochemistry in coastal marine and freshwater ecosystems, spanning a range of spatial scales from molecular level organic chemical characterization to models at global scales, with the impact of human activities being a common theme. Through an international collaboration, a spatially explicit, multi-nutrient, watershed model, Global NEWS, was developed which has been applied to watersheds globally under a range of scenarios. She has also dabbled in atmospheric chemistry, including aqueous phase secondary organic aerosol formation.
Dr. Seitzinger joins UVic from her position as executive director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work at the IGBP involved facilitating and integrating the work of scientists and researchers across Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe on global environmental change. Prior to that, she was director of the Rutgers/NOAA Cooperative Marine Education and Research Program and visiting professor at Rutgers University in the US. She served as president of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography from 2006-2010.
Martino Tran
Martino is Assistant Professor in Environmental Systems Science at the School of Community and Regional Planning and Associate Faculty Member in the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science. He is a Canada Research Chair nominee in Urban Systems and Co-Director on the Master of Engineering Leadership (MEL) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is also a Visiting Research Associate at the Environmental Change Institute and a former Oxford Martin Fellow at the University of Oxford.
He is broadly interested in applying environmental systems and engineering sciences for tackling societal challenges in energy and sustainability. This includes the application of systems theory, techno-economic analysis, and complex networks to assess long-term sustainability, risk and resilience in urban systems. Much of his work focuses on developing multi-scale decision support systems and integrated assessment modelling to inform climate and energy policy. Current focus areas include sustainable energy and transport systems, and interdependent infrastructure networks. He also lectures on Cities and Climate Change (PLAN 548S), and Urban Systems Analysis and Planning (URSY 520) at UBC.
Before arriving to UBC, Martino provided technical leadership and management for the UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC) a $10M program grant funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). He was responsible for integrated assessment focusing on model calibration, validation and simulation. He also made novel contributions to the development of multi-attribute, cross-sector performance metrics, and visualization techniques to assess infrastructure risk and interdependency. This work contributed to the first national infrastructure systems modelling capability to inform the UK government’s National Infrastructure Plan.
Martino has also led research for academia and industry on the large-scale deployment of smart energy and transport technologies, and has advised UNEP, UNDP and Hitachi Europe’s Smart Cities Program. He also collaborates with the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) tasked with informing UK energy and climate policy. He is a regular peer reviewer for Science and Nature.
Martino completed his PhD in Environmental Science specializing in mathematical modelling as an Oxford Martin Fellow jointly led by Engineering Sciences and the School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford. His thesis applied systems engineering and complex network theory to model the long-term techno-economic performance of alternative fuelled vehicles for climate change mitigation. He received a European Commission Erasmus Mundus scholarship completing a MSc in Environmental Science at Lund University, Sweden specializing in energy systems analysis. Before academia he worked in industry focusing on environmental impact assessment for major energy and transport infrastructure projects.
Select Books and Articles Available at UBC Library
Donner, S. D., & Mcdaniels, J. (2013). The influence of national temperature fluctuations on opinions about climate change in the U.S. since 1990. Climatic Change, 118(3-4), 537-550. [Link]
Gulati, S., & Roy, D. (2015). Free trade and the greening of domestic industry. Environment and Development Economics, 20(1), 1-19. [Link]
Weissbecker, I. (2011). Climate change and human well-being : Global challenges and opportunities Springer. [Link]
Have you ever wanted to contribute to the evolution of one of the largest research libraries in Canada? If so, please join the 2016-2017 Library Student Advisory Committee!
The Library Student Advisory Committee engages in open conversations about how to enhance library resources and services, and how to facilitate an exceptional student experience at UBC Library. The committee facilitates direct communication between library management and students, providing the opportunity for students to provide constructive feedback and to get involved in the decision making processes that guide the enhancement of learning spaces and library services.
Qualifications
Current UBC student (graduate or Undergraduate)
An interest in impacting decision making at UBC Library
Availability to attend monthly meetings from October 2016 to April 2017 (time determined based on committee member availability)
How to apply
Please submit your application online by Sunday, October 9.
Project Title: Uno Langmann Family Collection of BC Photographs Project
Organization: University of British Columbia Library
Description: The Uno Langmann Family Collection of British Columbia Photographs consists of more than 7,900 images from 77 albums. This collection includes extensive coverage of B.C. from the 1850s to the 1950s and includes photographs in a wide variety of formats and genres including albums, diaries, portraits, landscapes and city/townscapes.
A Life Sciences Institute Public Talk
TomoeArts will be screening a series of full live video performances from their 
7:00-8:30 pm
Akoya is a scene from the puppet play Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki which first premiered in 1732 and was later restaged as a kabuki play. This scene, originally known as the “Koto Torture Scene”, shows Shigetada questioning the courtesan Akoya on where her lover, the defeated Heike warrior Kagekiyo, is. Shigetada forces Akoya to answer his questions while she plays various traditional Japanese instruments such as the koto, shamisen and kokyû (lap fiddle). The actor who plays Akoya requires years of special training to be able to play all three musical instruments on stage for this performance.
7:00-8:30 pm
Simon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at UBC, as well as an associate in UBC’s Liu Institute for Global Issues, Biodiversity Research Centre and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and the Atmospheric Sciences Program. He came to UBC after a few years in the Science, Technology and Environment Program in the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He spent his undergraduate days at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He also did a master’s degree in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and a PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin with the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment.
Economics at the University of British Columbia, studying the economics of urban transportation. Sumeet completed his BA in Economics at the University of Mumbai and then his Masters at the University of Delhi before moving to the USA to complete his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Sybil Seitzinger is the executive director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions and a professor in the School of Environmental Studies.
School of Community and Regional Planning and Associate Faculty Member in the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science. He is a Canada Research Chair nominee in Urban Systems and Co-Director on the Master of Engineering Leadership (MEL) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is also a Visiting Research Associate at the Environmental Change Institute and a former Oxford Martin Fellow at the University of Oxford.