Paper Cutting Activity at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
You are invited to celebrate the Lunar New Year by trying your hand at making traditional Lunar New Year paper cutting decorations. Booth will be located on Level 2 near the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology.
Join us in person or online for an engaging discussion “Taming the Beast with Metadata” hosted by the Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC). Livestream sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
“Taming the Beast with Metadata”
Setting aside infrastructure, policies, management, and money, what information needs to be recorded in order to ensure that the longevity of a digital record? Let’s talk about Rules for Archival Description and PREMIS.
February 20, 2015 at the Irving K. Barber Centre (Lillooet Room)
With awards season just around the corner, the alumni UBC Book Club is rolling out its red carpet and offering two evocative books turned into movies: Tracks by Robyn Davidson and The End of the Affair by Graham Greene.
To learn more, we invite you to attend the Meet and Greet where you’ll meet your facilitator, fellow alumni, and learn about your book before you read it. Three weeks later, come to the Book Discussion and share your thoughts in a lively small group setting.
Meet and Greet:
Monday, March 16, 2015
7:00 – 8:00 pm
Book Discussion:
Monday, April 13, 2015
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Please click through to the book of your choice below for more details. Cecil Green Park House, at the University of British Columbia (6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, B.C) – map
Facilitated by Maureen Phillips, BA’ 84, MA. I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there’s no going back.’ So begins Robyn Davidson’s perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company.
Facilitated by Dr. Brian McIlroy, BA, MA, PhD. Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as “for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.”
UBC Library Resources
Davidson, Robyn. Tracks. London: Cape, 1989. [Available at Koerner Library]
Tracks, Movie Adaptation, 2014. [Available at Koerner Library]
Greene, Grahame. End of the Affair. London: Heineman, 1955. [Available at Koerner Library]
End of the Affair, Movie Adaptation, 1999. [Available at Koerner Library – Videomatica Collection]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Consortium and the BC History of Nursing Society. In the immediate post-WWII Years, the treatment of caesarean sections solidified and became entrenched in medical and social discourses. Canadian mothers and medical professionals embarked on a quarter-of-a-century consideration of how reduction of risk in c-sections could contribute to positive outcomes. This case study looks at the operation as it occurred at St. Paul’s Hospital, exploring social, technological, and professional changes in the operation through the lens of a large, urban, tertiary care facility to expose a shift to increased comfort with the operation. By examining medical records and prevailing medical and social discourses of the era, Sally Mennill traces this shift beyond the early-twentieth-century era of extreme caution with regard to surgical birth. Specifically, caesarean deliveries continued to take place in cases when the fetus had to be removed to prevent imminent death, but it was also relied upon increasingly in scenarios where the threat of death was not the primary determining factor. By the end of the 1960s, caesarean section had become an option even when existing records suggest that danger was not clear cut.
About the speaker:
Sally received her BA in History and Canadian Studies from Simon Fraser University in 2000, and her MA in Canadian Studies from Trent University in 2005. Her PhD, exploring caesarean sections in post-WWII British Columbia, is from UBC’s Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (2012). Sally has been teaching at Douglas College since 2007, first as contract faculty and now as probationary regular faculty.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Mennill, S. (2014). Ideal births and ideal babies: English-canadian advice literature in the 1950s and 1960s. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 31(2), 25. [Link]
Mennill, S., & Strong-Boag, V. (2008). Identifying victims: Child abuse and death in canadian families. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History = Bulletin Canadien d’Histoire De La Médecine, 25(2), 311. [Link]
UBC Library Research Guides
In celebration of Freedom to Read Week, the BCLA/CLA student chapters and the ALA student chapter at UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies are hosting a panel discussion on Intellectual Freedom. This discussion is not just the speakers’ personal experiences with banned or challenged books, but also their thoughts on how the concept of intellectual freedom informs and is informed by their work and choices as librarians, authors, publishers, and teachers. The panel will be primarily discussion-driven.
Christopher Kevlahan, Branch Head, Joe Fortes – Vancouver Public Library;
Miriam Moses, Acquisitions Manager, Burnaby Public Library;
Greg Mackie, Assistant Professor, UBC Deptartment of English;
Tara Robertson, Accessibility Librarian, CAPER-BC at Langara College.
The moderator is Ingrid Parent, UBC University Librarian.
February 24th from 12.00pm to 1.00pm at the Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). The colloquium is sponsored by the UBC Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Program, a multidisciplinary degree Program offered by the Creative Writing Program, the English Department, and the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies in the Faculty of Arts; and the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Faculty of Education. Kit Pearson is the author of over thirteen books for children, including middle grade novels in all genres, short stories, picture books, and non-fiction. Her books have been published in Canada in English and French, in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, France, China, and Korea. Her books have been awarded such honours as the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature. She has received seventeen awards for her writing, including the B.C. Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence in 2014.
Kit was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1947 and grew up there and in Vancouver, B.C. She received her B.A. from the University of Alberta, her M.L.S. from U.B.C.’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, and her M.A. from the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children’s Literature in Boston. She worked for ten years as a children’s librarian in Ontario and B.C., and is now a full-time writer living in Victoria. For more information see www.kitpearson.com
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Smyth, C. (2015). Pearson, Kit: The lights go on again (puffin classics series). Resource Links, 20(3), 16. [Link]
Smyth, C. (2015). Pearson, Kit: The sky is falling (penguin classics series). Resource Links, 20(3), 16. [Link]
Smyth, C. (2015). Pearson, Kit: Looking at the moon (penguin classics series). Resource Links, 20(3), 15. [Link]
UBC Library Research Guides
Kanjinchô, or the The Subscription List, is a matsubamemono dance play based on the classic noh play Ataka, the story is about Yoshitsune and his retainer Benkei trying to pass the barrier in disguise. Kanjinchô is one of the most popular plays in the kabuki repertoire and is one of the “Kabuki Jûhachiban” – or great 18 plays of kabuki.
Tomoe Arts focuses on kabuki dance plays based on noh themes and stories. It began in November with a tale of a flesh-eating demoness and continues in February to one of the greatest tales of duty and heroism, ending in April with the foolish drunken antics of two servants.
Tomoe Salon Series will be screening full videos of live performances from the Shôchiku’s Kabuki Meisakusen Series, which feature some of the greatest kabuki performers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The recordings have English language commentary, and after the performances, a discussion take place around the important story and performance elements. Green tea will be served as well.
This salon takes place February 2, 7.00-9.00pm at the Chilcotin Room (Rm 256), I.K Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall, UBC. The nearest parking to the Centre are the Rose Garden and North Parkades. Parking at UBC is $7 after 5pm. UBC Parking map.
We frequently hear this word used on campus and in our communities in acknowledgement and thanks to our host nation(s). UBC Longhouse Elder-in-Residence, Larry Grant, has given countless welcomes to Musqueam territory at UBC gatherings, and he never omits the use of this adjective to describe his nation’s lands.
How do you view the land beneath your feet? Is it anchored in a legally framed history learned from a settler perspective, or have you taken the time to learn about how Indigenous peoples view our lands and the conversations around our rights connected to it? This exhibit honors and raises the awareness of legal histories exemplifying ground breaking changes in the relationships between the Crown and Aboriginal Peoples. As members of this community at UBC, and as (many of us) guests on Musqueam territory, it is our responsibility to inform ourselves about the history of the land in solidarity of the Elders who gave much to the teaching and learning that takes place here. You are invited to consider the legal challenges raised by the communities and represented by unceded’s curators.
Curators
Drew Ann Wake
Andrea Roca
Larry Grant
Bruce Muir
Leona Sparrow
Jordan Wilson
Sue Rowley
Amy Perreault
Sarah Dupont
Jessica Woolman
Jason Woolman
Sarah Ling
Exhibition at the 2nd floor foyer of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (January 17 to February 28, 2015). For more information about this exhibition, please visit the website unceded.
To see more photos of this exhibit, please click here.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Africa Awareness Initiative. Africa Awareness’s Conference Week is the flagship event of Africa Awareness Initiative and is hosted annually in the second week of January at the University of British Columbia doing just this. Conference Week has historically been a meeting place of great minds, purposes, and movement. It is a culmination point of what we do as Africa Awareness Initiative, and a vehicle to display the African Continent in its entire splendour. In this week, the conference explores the theme of trans-formative leadership by fostering progressive dialogues, intellectual discussions and celebrations of artistry, by engaging passionately with the continent by inspiring conversations surrounding leadership. Honouring the cultural inclusiveness of the Museum of Anthropology, the opening ceremony is an evening that formally introduces Conference Week, highlighted by the giving of a Keynote speech. A night filled with cultural dance and artistry truly an inspired introduction to trans-formative leadership.
The Keynote speech is given by Dr. Cecil Abrahams a native of South Africa and a prominent opponent of Apartheid. Having been a colleague of Nelson Mandela in the African National Congress, Dr. Abrahams has had a wealth of experience in battling injustice and actualizing transformative leadership.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Abrahams, C. A. (1990). The tragic life: Bessie head and literature in southern Africa. Trenton, N.J: Africa World Press.
Abrahams, C. A. (1989). Essays on literature. St. Laurent, Quebec: AFO Enterprises.
Abrahams, C. (1979). The African writer and the western critic. World Literature Written in English, 18(1), 6-123.
Abrahams, C. (1979). The context of black south African literature. World Literature Written in English, 18, 8-19.
UBC Library Research Guides
Engage in a public dialogue about how environmental, behavioural and biological (including genetic) factors collide and interact to impact the health of British Columbians. People have control over some aspects of their health and not others.
Please RSVP below
Getting there: Vancouver’s Central Library is located in Library Square which occupies a full city block: bounded by Homer, Hamilton, Robson and Georgia Streets. The Central Library is accessible by bicycle, bus, skytrain and car, with underground and street parking available. The Alice MacKay Room is wheelchair accessible.
This talk is an informal and open forum that aims to bring the latest and greatest ideas in the area of the Life Sciences to the public. Each event is free to attend and will include a talk, networking opportunities and reception. This series focuses on Personalized Medicine and how the Life Sciences Institute faculty, staff and students are working to change clinical practice, improve health outcomes, and reduce health costs. In partnership with the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Health Information Series, an ongoing public lecture series that take place in the Lower Mainland community, this talk will also be recorded for webcast viewing at a later date.
Martin Dawes, MD, PhD
Head, UBC Department of Family Practice
Pieter Cullis, PhD
Director, UBC Life Sciences Institute; Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Bruce McManus, MD, PhD
Professor, UBC Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Co-Director, Institute for Heart + Lung Health; CEO, Centre of Excellence for Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF Centre)
Ida Goodreau
Adjunct Professor, UBC Sauder School of Business; Director of Strategy, UBC Centre for Healthcare Management
Teresa Liu-Ambrose, PhD, PT
Associate Professor, UBC Department of Physical Therapy; Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity, Mobility, and Cognitive Neuroscience
Larry Lynd, PhD
Professor, UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences; Director, UBC Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE)
Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level
Central Library
350 West Georgia Street
To attend this talk, please RSVP online.
For more information about this series, please contact Allan Cho, Community Engagement Librarian