The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, located at the heart of the beautiful University of British Columbia (UBC), offers an art exhibition space consisting of eight free-standing display cases (6 feet width x 23 inches height x 22 inches depth) with clear Plexiglas lockable covers which houses books, posters, other print material and artifacts.
The art exhibition’s purpose is to encourage student learning, research excellence and community engagement. It serves to inform, educate, entertain, and promote UBC Library’s programs and services in keeping with the University’s mission as one of the world’s leading universities to create an “exceptional learning environment that fosters global citizenship, advances a civil and sustainable society, and supports outstanding research to serve the people of British Columbia, Canada and the world.”
To see more photos of past exhibitions, visit the Learning Centre’s Facebook page.
The Learning Centre is now welcoming submission proposals for its 2016-2017 Art Exhibition from individuals, groups and organizations within UBC and from the broader community. If you wish to contribute, please apply here by October 15, 2015.
What is the key to happiness? Is it family relationships? Wealth? Job satisfaction? Helping others? Perhaps we need to spend more time in nature, and less time in cities. And is happiness a universal feeling, or are there significant differences in the experience of it based on culture, age or other factors? There are so many ideas about where happiness comes from, yet many of us still struggle to find it. Are some people simply hardwired to be happy and others not, or is it a state of mind that can be consciously pursued?
Moderator
Shiral Tobin – Producer of CBC’s The Early Edition
Panelists
Elizabeth Dunn – Associate Professor, UBC Department of Psychology
John Innes – Dean, UBC Faculty of Forestry; Forest Renewal BC Chair in Forest Management
Holman Wang, BEd(Elem)’95, MASA’98, LLB’05 – Children’s Author and Illustrator
Jiaying Zhao – Canada Research Chair in Behavioral Sustainability; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, UBC
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Willingham, D. T., & Dunn, E. W. (2003). What neuroimaging and brain localization can do, cannot do, and should not do for social psychology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(4), 662. [Link]
Dunn, E. W., & Weidman, A. C. (2015). Building a science of spending: Lessons from the past and directions for the future. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 25(1), 172-178. doi:10.1016/j.jcps.2014.08.003 [Link]
Yu, R. Q., & Zhao, J. (2015). The persistence of the attentional bias to regularities in a changing environment. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, doi:10.3758/s13414-015-0930-5 [Link]
Mani, A., Mullainathan, S., Shafir, E., & Zhao, J. (2013). Poverty impedes cognitive function. Science, 341(6149), 976-980. doi:10.1126/science.1238041 [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Back in the ‘80s when the Vancouver Canucks were searching for wins in a tough Smythe Division, Victor de Bonis could be found parking cars at the Pacific Coliseum. After a detour through accounting firm KPMG, de Bonis joined the Canucks operation in 1994, and has since seen various teams and ownerships come and go. Yet through perseverance, relationships and a dedication to winning, over the past two decades, de Bonis has helped turned the franchise into one of the National Hockey League’s most successful franchises. We heard how he got his start, and learn about the challenges he faced and opportunities he seized along the way. Wesbrook Talks is presented by Wesbrook Village and alumni UBC. It is designed to provide intimate opportunities to listen to and engage with prominent alumni in the community.
Speaker Bio
Victor de Bonis is the Chief Operating Officer for Canucks Sports and Entertainment (CSE), and an Alternate Governor for the NHL. Working in partnership with President of Hockey Operations Trevor Linden, Victor has primary responsibility over all facets of business operations and directs the Senior Leadership Team.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Chapman, P., Wake, B., & Canadian Publishers Collection – non-CRKN. (2011). A thrilling ride: The Vancouver Canucks’ 40th anniversary season. Vancouver: Greystone Books. [Link]
Kerr, G. (2011). A season to remember: The Vancouver Canucks’ incredible 40th year. Madeira Park, B.C: Harbour Pub. [Link]
Cruickshank, D. (2012). Vancouver Canucks. Calgary, AB: Weigl Educational Publishers. [Link]
Munro, C. E. S. (2006). Sports fan culture & brand community: An ethnographic case study of the Vancouver Canucks booster club. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia. [Link]
Rossiter, S. (1994). Vancouver Canucks: the silver edition. Vancouver: Opus Productions Inc. [Link]
Boyd, D. (1973). The Vancouver Canucks story. New York; Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. [Link]
Jewison, N. (1990). The Vancouver Canuck: The first twenty years. Winlaw, B.C: Polestar Press. [Link]
Gallagher, T., & Gasher, M. (1982). Towels, triumph and tears: The Vancouver Canucks and their amazing drive to the 1982 Stanley Cup final. Madeira Park, B.C: Harbour Publishing. [Link]
The Vancouver Canucks’ family cook book. (1980). Vancouver, BC: Vancouver Canucks. [Link]
Douglas, G., & Kerr, G. (2010). Canucks at forty: Our game, our stories, our passion. Mississauga, Ontario: John Wiley & Sons Canada. [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Is Cantonese a “dialect” or a “language”? Is it a “culture” or a distinct “society”? Or is Cantonese something both more and less than all of these? The keynote for this workshop introduces how we might think about “Cantonese Worlds” both historically and in the present. Drawing upon the migration of peoples across the globe who spoke various forms of what we might consider “Cantonese,” we consider the “Cantonese Worlds” that have been made historically over the last 500 years, and their prospects in the present day. Over the last 50 years, migrations between Hong Kong and Canada have transformed cities such as Toronto and Vancouver. Significant changes in real estate, business, philanthropy, and education, as well as cultural transformations in language, popular media, and mass consumption have reshaped societies on both sides of the Pacific. Flows of people, goods, and ideas have been multidirectional–even as hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong Chinese became Canadian citizens, Canadians of both Chinese and non-Chinese heritage also migrated to Hong Kong for work and family. Counting the estimated 300,000 Canadian passport holders living in Hong Kong would rank it among the ten largest “Canadian” cities! The Hong Kong-Canada Crosscurrents Project looks back on the last half century in order to understand how the migration of people, goods, and ideas across the Pacific has created a complex crosscurrent of dense and sometimes surprising connections, including the transformation and re-animation of a Cantonese Pacific world that had spanned the ocean for centuries.
Relevant Books and Articles from UBC Library
Aijmer, G., & Ho, V. K. Y. (2000). Cantonese society in a time of change. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.
Topley, M., & DeBernardi, J. E. (2011). Cantonese society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, religion, medicine and money. Singapore: NUS Press.
Yu-Han, M., & Lee, H. Y. (2014). Strong and weak dialects of china: How Cantonese succeeded whereas Shaan’Xi failed with the help of media. Asian Social Science, 10(15), 23. [Link]
The University of British Columbia Point Grey campus is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking Musqueam people. We thank Musqueam for its hospitality and support of our work.
In celebration of Aboriginal History Month, a new collaborative exhibit at the Library highlights the history of the Musqueam people before and since Vancouver.
c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city is an unprecedented series of exhibitions about Musqueam’s ancient landscape and living culture, at three distinct locations. As part of Aboriginal History Month at UBC Library, the curators of c̓əsnaʔəm have developed a satellite exhibit at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) featuring belongings, replicas, images, maps and video.
The IKBLC exhibit looks at Musqueam ways of knowing, especially the ways they know and connect to their territory, and their ancestors’ ancient belongings. The exhibit uses the term “belonging” instead of item or artifact to show the ongoing connections to the belongings of ancestors. For example, one case features actual belongings recovered from the ancient site, while a neighboring case includes replicas made by present day Musqueam community members.
“Making belongings based on oral histories and stories in my community is really interesting and fun,” says Morgan Guerin, a Musqueam community member and Councillor who made harpoon points and antler tools to be used in the exhibit. Guerin also created a Sturgeon harpoon, the first made at Musqueam in nearly 100 years.
Located in the area now commonly known as the neighbourhood of Marpole in Vancouver, c̓əsnaʔəm was first occupied almost five thousand years ago. It became one of the largest of the Musqueam people’s ancient village sites – at what was then the mouth of the Fraser River. Over the past 125 years, archaeologists, collectors and treasure hunters have mined the c̓əsnaʔəm village and burial ground for artifacts and ancestral remains.
Designated as a National Historic Site in 1933, the site is obscured by an intersection of railway lines, roads and bridges to Richmond and the YVR Airport. However, c̓əsnaʔəm has continued to be an important cultural site for the Musqueam community.
The exhibition is open to the public daily from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m., on Level 2 of the IKLBC, and will be on display until August 26.
Musqueam First Nation, the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC, and the Museum of Vancouver (MOV) partnered on a groundbreaking exploration of an ancient landscape and living culture. c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city — a series of three distinct exhibitions, opened in January 2015. The unified exhibits connect visitors with c̓əsnaʔəm — one of the largest ancient village and burial sites upon which Vancouver was built — sharing its powerful 5,000-year history and continuing significance.
Musqueam Cultural Education Resource Centre
4000 Musqueam Ave. musqueam.bc.ca
Museum of Anthropology
6393 NW Marine Dr. moa.ubc.ca
Every year the Library coordinates an exhibit for Aboriginal History Month in collaboration with the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Xwi7xwa Library and the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology.
Learning Initiatives for Rural and Northern BC (LIRN BC) is a collaborative approach to building on the capacities of rural, remote and Northern British Columbian communities. The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is proud to partner with government and non-government organizations to provide and facilitate workshops to promote community learning and collaboration in rural and northern communities.
The LIRN BC process encourages local government, provincial, federal, First Nations, non-government organizations (community-based, regional and provincial) and businesses to work together to plan, deliver and evaluate a locally relevant learning initiative.
LIRN BC can bring trainers and facilitators to your community to deliver a learning event for residents. The 2015 Expression of Interest (EOI) includes workshop summaries for 21 workshops offered by LIRN BC partner organizations. Select the topic of the event from the choices offered and tell us why this is important in the form below. If your community is selected, you will be contacted by a LIRN BC partner who will work with you to design and deliver a learning event that meets the needs of your community. Successful applicants would be expected to provide publicity support, venue and refreshments.
►The EOI must be received by July 3rd, 2015.
The LIRN BC partners are:
Alzheimer Society of BC
Association of Neighbourhood Houses of BC
BC Centre for Employment Excellence
BC Healthy Communities (PlanH Program)
Community Social Planning Council (Victoria)
Fraser Basin Council (Integrated Community Sustainability Planning)
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre UBC
Leave Out Violence (LoVE)
PeerNetBC
SPARC BC
Vantage Point
Volunteer BC
YouthCo
EOI Details:
►The EOI must be received by July 3rd, 2015. Please do not exceed the provided space of the Application Section of the EOI. Follow this link for more information or to download the EOI form.
►Return the Application Section only – pages 15 to 21 of this document – as a Word document by email to jsands@sparc.bc.ca | Jim Sands, Project Coordinator, SPARC BC (Social Planning and Research Council of BC).
►Special Instructions: Please do not exceed the provided space of the Application Section of the EOI. Return the Application Section only – pages 15 to 21 of this document – as a Word document by email to jsands@sparc.bc.ca.
►LIRN BC does not provide direct funding or cash. The support offered by LIRN BC generally includes: event planning, workshop and/or dialogue design, facilitation, training, and reporting services that are related to each learning event. The community (through a local steering committee) is expected to help with planning, marketing, providing a venue, and providing catering if needed (this can be through charging admission).
Note: If you have any questions please contact Jim Sands at 604-718-8504 or jsands@sparc.bc.ca
For the 4th consecutive year, The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Centre for Community Engaged Learning are pleased to offer funding to instructors teaching courses that include remote community based experiential learning (CBEL) opportunities for their students. This funding is intended to support collaborations between UBC students and organizations located in communities outside of the Lower Mainland.
Faculty members are invited to apply online for up to $5,000 per course for the 2015/2016 academic year.
For more information, please visit the Student services website or click here for answers to some of the most frequently asked questions on our site.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Nursing. This presentation explores the development of forensic psychiatric services in Auckland, New Zealand in the late 1980s and 1990s. The story is based on oral histories undertaken with twenty one participants who helped create the service. They told of an innovative service, shaped by driven, motivated people, following some inspiring leadership. The background for this innovation and change was the chaos and struggles of the mental health hospital Oakley/ Carrington, wider political wrangles over whether responsibility for forensic patients lay with the Departments of Justice or Health, and the driving philosophy and policy of deinstitutionalisation. The forensic service that these contributors created was predicated on a distancing from the past chaos, and looking forward to creating a service that was new, different and with home-grown solutions.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Prebble is a nurse-historian with a long career in mental health nursing as a clinician, academic, and professional leader. Her primary research is in the social history of mental health nursing.
Relevant Books and Articles from UBC Library
Prebble, K. (2009). Remembering 100 years of mental health nursing registration. Nursing New Zealand (Wellington, N.Z.: 1995), 14(12), 26. [Link]
Hudson, E., Thom, K., & Prebble, K. (2015). Service users’ experiences of voluntary admission to mental hospital: A review of research literature. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 22(3), 327-336. doi:10.1080/13218719.2014.959156. [Link]
Prebble, K., Gooder, C., & Thom, K. (2014). New Zealand’s mental health district inspector in historical context: “the impartial scrutiny of a citizen of standing”. Journal of Law and Medicine, 22(2), 415.
Bazley, M., & Prebble, K. (2007). Rita McEwan–nursing leading, reformer and visionary.(NEWS AND EVENTS). Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 13(1), 8. [Link]
UBC Building Operations has initiated a project to replace and enhance the lighting in the Golden Jubilee Room (level 4) and the main staircase. The project will resolve maintenance issues with inaccessible light fixtures and allow these areas to be properly lit. The project is expected to be complete at the end of July. The Golden Jubilee Room will be closed to the public for the duration of the project. Access to the central staircase will be impacted at times and building users will be directed to the elevators or alternative staircases. Access to the main entry of the building (East Mall) will be maintained at all times.
