Telling Stories with Data - SLAIS Presentations (June 15, 2012, 2-3pm)

Telling Stories with Data – SLAIS Presentations (June 15, 2012, 2-3pm)

July 23, 2012

What good is open data if we don’t know how to find and use it? The digital age has ushered in new opportunities to better understand our communities and demand accountability from our governments. In an intensive two-day master class, digital publishing expert Phillip Smith introduced some of the “working with data” tricks he has learned in over 15 years working with advocacy organizations, publishers and groups such as Civic Access and the Electoral Data Consortium. He is currently working to advance the field of “news innovation” through Mozilla and The Tyee. Come join us as Josh Rose and Jonathan Kift present present on how organizations make sense of data, and to use data to tell compelling stories.

Dodson Room (Room 302), June 15, 2.00PM to 3.00PM

Presenters

Josh Rose

I first became interested in Open Data while taking a Data Mining course in 2011 at Syracuse University through SLAIS distance learning. The course covered data mining theory and how machine learning can be used to extract knowledge and solve problems involving large amounts of data. Using Weka, an open-source data mining software application, I learned to pre-process and clean data for analysis before applying different machine learning concepts like classification, association rules, and clustering, to gain a clearer understanding of underlying patterns in data sets. For a final project, I combined Vancouver’s bicycle count data and publicly available weather and gas price data to show patterns of bicycle use in Vancouver over time. Currently, in my work as a GAA at UBC Library’s Assessment Office, I work with qualitative and quantitative data from surveys, usage statistics, and gate counts to create metrics to assess the library’s performance and reduce uncertainty in library decision making. I find working with data to be a challenging and rewarding process which I believe will only grow in importance as more and more data is collected and made available in all spheres of our lives. I am interested in attending the Tyee Master Class about Open Data to learn more about practical tricks and techniques for working with data as well as the chance to meet other workshop attendees and see how they are gathering, analyzing, and using data to benefit a larger community. This course will benefit me by allowing continued exploration of open data and analysis techniques, which I hope to use in my current and future jobs.

Jonathan Kift

Ever since I had the opportunity to listen to Andrea Reimer’s keynote at the ACCESS conference last October, I’ve been excited about the possibilities of working with Open Data in Vancouver. I developed a paper on GIS and Open Data for last Fall’s Community Informatics (LIBR 548H) class which I was able to turn into a poster to present at this year’s SLAIS Research Day. I feel that taking open data and making it accessible to the wider public through explanation and visualization is a skill that will be critical for taking my career where I want it to go. In addition, in my year as a co-op student at UBC LSIT (Library Systems & IT), I have had a chance to be part of several presentations to library staff and I feel comfortable in that role.

For more information, please contact: Gordon Yusko or Allan Cho

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About Webcasts

July 16, 2012

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre uses webcasting services as a way to deliver broadcasts through the Internet. The sound and video is captured by video and streamed to YouTube’s server for viewing by end users from the comfort of their desktops. The following document outlines policies and procedures to ensure that webcasting services are delivered efficiently and consistently to audiences. All webcasts must meet criteria as outlined in this policy. As the webcast initiative has evolved at UBC Library’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, its online digital collection has used four core types of entities from NISO’s “Framework of Guidance” as a benchmark.

Mission

The mission of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is dedicated to the intellectual, social, cultural, and economic development of people in British Columbia. By providing and enhancing access to information, knowledge, and innovative teaching through the support of learning and research on an interactive basis with people in British Columbia and throughout the world, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre supports the University’s mission to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest levels of excellence.

Aim of the Webcast Collection Development Policy

The Webcast Collection Development Policy is to provide a framework for the maintenance and development of the University Library’s collections, to indicate priorities, to establish selection criteria across the range of different subjects, topics, and issues to create a consistent and coherent basis for the future development of the collections.

The Learning Centre’s webcast collections development policies reflect the Learning Centre’s overall educational mission. Among our institutional goals is an “interdisciplinary environment dedicated to integrating people, knowledge, and innovation to develop solutions for the challenges of life.” We intend to allow these ideals to inform and guide our webcast collections policies as well. Our collection development policy is flexible and encourages creative ways of meeting our community’s information needs.

Through the recording of UBC and IKBLC-based lectures, seminars, conferences, and performances, the Learning Centre selects appropriate programs to be recorded which communicated and promoted UBC-based lectures and events as part of the IKBLC and UBC Library’s outreach to the community. The webcasts engage UBC Library and the Learning Centre with faculty and students, thus promoting their research in an online venue. The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre reflects the dedication of its founders and the people of British Columbia to continue to reinvest in the future of the Province by supporting and enhancing the environment for learning.

Our webcast series has a number of partners, including

Green College
St. John’s College
Institute of Asian Research (IAR)
the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS)
Faculty of Education’s Community to Reimagine Educational Alternatives for Teaching Education (CREATE)
UBC Continuing Studies
Vancouver Institute

Is it possible to show a video that is posted on the Internet in my classroom or link to it on my website?

It is important to check all videos posted on the Internet carefully for information regarding their use. YouTube videos can be used if the copyright owner uploaded the video onto YouTube. If it is a commercial or a television program on YouTube then any use of this will likely be an infringement of copyright. Check the YouTube Copyright Tips (http://www.youtube.com/t/howto_copyright) page for more information.

Creative Commons

IKBLC webcasts all have Creative Commons copyright licenses, which offers everyone from individual creators to institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

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Wendy Hall – When Lullabies Are Not Enough

July 13, 2012

The Library’s Health Information Series is pleased to present a session on the topic of sleep and its effects on children’s and parent’s health. Dr. Wendy Hall, professor at UBC’s School of Nursing, presents “When Lullabies Are Not Enough: Reducing the Impact of Poor Sleep on Infants, Toddlers & Their Parents” which was held at the Terry Salman Branch Library of the Vancouver Public. In this talk, Dr. Hall gives parents strategies for improving the sleep patterns of young infants as well as tips and tricks on developing better sleeping habits for parents of these infants leading to better health.

Biography

Dr. Hall is the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and professor at UBC’s School of Nursing. Her current project is called, Better Nights/Better Days: Improving Psychosocial Health Outcomes in Children with Behavioural Insomnia. Dr. Hall is currently teaching courses in maternal and child health, infant and child growth and development, and research methods. I am also involved in developing interdisciplinary workshops for medical, nursing, and midwifery students. I am particularly interested in facilitating interdisciplinary work and developing student mentoring opportunities.

UBC Library Resources

Hall, W.A., Bandsmer, J., Gregg, K., & Ebbehoj, C. (2013). Translating Knowledge Directly to Childbearing Women: A Study of Canadian Women’s Preferences. Health Care for Women International, 34(5), 363-379. DOI:10.1080/07399332.2012.740109 [Link]

Hall, W. A., Tomkinson, J., & Klein, M. C. (2012). Canadian Care Providers’ and Pregnant Women’s Approaches to Managing Birth Minimizing Risk While Maximizing Integrity. Qualitative Health Research, 22(5), 575-586. [Link]

Hall, W. A., Shearer, K., Mogan, J., & Berkowitz, J. (2002). Weighing preterm infants before & after breastfeeding: does it increase maternal confidence and competence?. MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, 27(6), 318-326. [Link]

Hall, W., & Irvine, V. (2009). E‐communication among mothers of infants and toddlers in a community‐based cohort: a content analysis. Journal of advanced nursing, 65(1), 175-183. [Link]

UBC Research Guides

Nursing

Pediatrics

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SLAIS Master of Arts in Children's Literature Program

July 12, 2012

The University of British Columbia Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Program

and

The Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable

Present

A talk by world-renowned children’s literature critic and historian, Leonard Marcus

Entitled:

“‘Let the Wild Rumpus Start’: Maurice Sendak as Storyteller and Psychologist”

Friday, October 12^th, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30 PM

The Lillooet Room, Room 301, Level 3, Chapman Learning Commons,

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall, University of British Columbia

Refreshments served

Book sales and signing

Free — No registration necessary

Maurice Sendak, foremost picture-book creator of the 20^th century, died on May 8th 2012. Noted children’s book historian Leonard Marcus, drawing on his incisive research, conversations with members of the psychological community, and wide-ranging interviews with Sendak, the creator of Max, Mickey, and friends, presents a rare glimpse into the life and work of the most original children’s book artist of our time.

Leonard Marcus is a world-renowned children’s literature critic, children’s book historian, curator of children’s book illustration exhibitions, and interviewer of authors and illustrators. Described as “one of the children’s book world’s most engaging speakers,” he is a children’s book reviewer for the New York Times, a columnist on illustrated books for The Horn Book Magazine, a judge on national American children’s book juries, and a prolific author who has written highly acclaimed books and hundreds of articles on children’s literature and publishing.

Among his over 20 books are: Minders of Make Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and theShaping of American Children’s Literature, winner of the Children’s Literature Association Book Award; Show Me A Story: Why Picture Books Matter; The Annotated Phantom Tolbooth; Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom; Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children’s Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way; and Magaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon.

Leonard Marcus has been a consultant to the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Book Foundation, All for Kids Foundation, Norman Rockwell Museum, National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature, and Book Globe Company Ltd (Japan). He is a member of the national board of the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature (www.nccil.org) and the Mazza Museum national advisory board.He holds degrees in history from Yale and poetry from the University of Iowa Graduate Writers’ Workshop. In 2007, Leonard Marcus was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Bank Street College of Education. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

This colloquium is sponsored by the Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable and the University of British Columbia Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Program,

a Multidisciplinary Degree Program offered by two faculties: the Creative Writing Program, Department of English and the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies in the Faculty of Arts; and the Language and Literacy Education Department in the Faculty of Education.

The Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable plans a series of annual events and conferences to bring award-winning authors, illustrators, editors and publishers to speak with students and Vancouver’s dynamic children’s literature community.

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“A Pocketful of Rhymes” presented by the Westcoast Calligraphy (July 3 to July 29th, 2012)

July 3, 2012

The theme of spring-time and gardens encourages different designs of colour, illustration, bookbinding, and paper making, within the mutual interest in the art of letters. “A Pocketful of Rhymes” has been a travelling exhibition displayed throughout the lower mainland, including Cloverdale Library and Fleetwood Public Library in Surrey, and the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver, B.C. Accompanying this month-long art exhibition at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre will be a public lecture by Professor Judi Saltman from the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies on July 26, 2012.

For more information about this accompanying lecture program, please find here.

Fore photos of this exhibition, please find here on our Facebook page.

For more information about this exhibition, please contact UBC Library’s Susan Andrews (susan.andrews@ubc.ca) or Allan Cho (allan.cho@ubc.ca).

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Ann Phelan, Marianne MacTavish, Wendy Carr – Inquiry in Teacher Education

June 29, 2012

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education’s CREATE Seminar Series. The re-visioned teacher education (BEd) program will be implemented in September. One of its guiding tenets is the development of an inquiry approach to teacher education. Three inquiry seminars will anchor the new program and, in preparation for this, instructors have piloted the inclusion of inquiry in the Principles of Teaching course in elementary, middle years and secondary cohorts for the past two years. Insights gained from the pilot, from student inquiry projects and from instructor and student feedback will be shared. The presentation offers an opportunity to learn more about the rationale for inquiry in teacher education and to discuss possibilities for the coming program.

Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library

Mathur, V. S. (1975). Teacher education: Some thoughts. Ambala City: Aggarwal Prakashan.

Christou, T. M., & Bullock, S. M. (2013). Foundations in teacher education: A Canadian perspective (ITION 2: English (print). ed.). Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Association of Teacher Education.

Hopkins, D., & Reid, K. (1985). Rethinking teacher education. Dover, N.H; London: Croom Helm.

Beck, C., Kosnik, C., & Project Muse University Press Archival eBooks. (2006). Innovations in teacher education: A social constructivist approach. Albany: Suny Press [Imprint]. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Education

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The Indigitization Tool Kit for First Nations Community Digitization Projects

June 29, 2012

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and was part of the Aboriginal Unhistory Month month-long series of events at UBC.The Indigitization Tool Kit is a how-to resource for First Nations communities digitizing cultural materials, such as open reel audio tapes from oral histories. Special guest Khelsilem will also speak about his involvement in the project. Presenters include Mimi Lam (UBC Librarian, Digital Projects), Gerry Lawson (Oral History Lab Coordinator, Audrey & Harry Hawthorn Library & Archives at MOA), and special guest Khelsilem (formerly Dustin Rivers), a Squamish/ Kwakwaka’wakw student, cultural educator and language enthusiast. This event is part of the Aboriginal (Un)History Month events, coordinated by UBC Library, in partnership with the Musqueam Indian Band, the Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology and the Museum of Anthropology. This event took place at the Dodson Room (302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall, University of British Columbia, on June 25, 2012.

UBC Library Research Guides

Library, Archival, and Information Science

Aboriginal Studies

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John Oliffe, Suki Grewal, and Bindy Kang – Heart Matters

June 26, 2012

On May 14, 2011, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and Woodward Library organized a talk at the Newton Branch library of the Surrey Public Library, focusing on men’s health as part of the Health Information Series. Dr. John Oliffe, Suki Grewal, and Bindy Kang shared their expertise in this important area of health research. This webcast can be viewed here. (Talk is conducted in both Punjabi and English). South Asian men—defined as men who were born in/originate from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal or Sri Lanka—are amongst the largest groups of immigrants in British Columbia, Canada. Little is known about their health behaviours; experiences of illness; or how they relate to, and engage with Canadian health care services. South Asian men’s groups (SAMGs) are naturally occurring groups meeting each week at various BC rural and urban temples and attract typically senior South Asian immigrant men. The SAMGs provided us with an opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge of a unique cultural milieu, and describe the connections between masculinity and older South Canadian immigrant men’s health. John Oliffe’s work has been highlighted in UBC Reports. For a transcript of this talk, please find here.

Are you interested in more about this area? There are open access resources available online selected by UBC Librarians

Chromosomal Variation in Man – http://resources.library.ubc.ca/717

Health Canada Drug Product Database – http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/prodpharma/databasdon/index-eng.php

PubMed – http://resources.library.ubc.ca/321

National Library of Medicine – http://resources.library.ubc.ca/627/

Population Index – http://resources.library.ubc.ca/1632

BioMed Central – http://www.biomedcentral.com/

UBC Health Wiki – http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/

Questions For Discussion

What does the latest research say about how the South Asian men interact with the health care system?

What specific resources do South Asian men need from health care?

What are some ways that South Asian men reach out to the health care system?

What are some online webpages you think might be relevant to the topic?

Men’s Health Research Program at UBC – http://www.menshealthresearch.ubc.ca/

The South Asian Heart Centre – http://www.southasianheartcenter.org/index.php

Birmingham Health & Wellbeing’s Aap Ki Sehat (Our Health) focuses on three middle-aged men and follows them through an average day – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcOWtj0uTp8

What Are Some UBC Resources That Might Be Helpful for understanding Men’s Health and Immigrant Populations?

Men’s health : body, identity and social context edited by Alex Broom, Philip Tovey [Available at UBC Woodward Library – WA306 .M548 2009]

Men’s health and illness : gender, power, and the body edited by Donald Sabo & David Frederick Gordon [UBC Woodward Library – WA300 .M458 1995]

Asian American communities and health : context, research, policy, and action by Chau Trinh-Shevrin, Nadia Shilpi Islam, and Mariano Jose Rey. [Available at UBC Okanagan Library – WA300.AA1 A832 2009]

Designing and conducting gender, sex, and health research by editors, John L. Oliffe, Lorraine J. Greaves. [Available at UBC Okanagan Library – W20.5 .D457 2012]

For more information, please contact Allan Cho

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Aboriginal Unhistory Month: Cultivating Conversations

June 22, 2012

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. The Aboriginal (Un)History Month exhibition celebrates Aboriginal creativity, scholarship, and intellectual traditions. It aims to educate, and cultivate conversations about relationship, representation, and recognition. The exhibition introduced a wide range of Aboriginal experience and examine different meanings of the term “history” through the leadership of Aboriginal youth, research, media and curriculum resources. Historic representations of Aboriginal peoples have contributed to the development of negative stereotypes, and the exhibit shows ways of dislodging stereotypes are explored through a spectrum of imagery, objects, and texts from various media, including student films.

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Chinese Canadian Stories

June 21, 2012

About
Events

Chinese Canadian Stories: Uncommon Histories from a Common Past is a collaborative, multidisciplinary project led by the University of British Columbia, funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s Community Historical Recognition Program (CHRP). Partners include Simon Fraser University and various campus and community-wide partners. This project will reshape the way all of us understand Canada, and reclaim the forgotten histories of peoples who have long been ignored in Canadian history. The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre has engaged the community in a number of community workshops throughout the Lower Mainland in Vancouver and also on campus at UBC.

At UBC, the Chinese Canadian Stories is a collaborative project between the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and various campus and community-wide partners. Its purpose is to reshape the way all of us understand Canada, and reclaim the forgotten histories of peoples who have long been ignored in Canadian history.

It brings together the outstanding expertise and resources of a wide range of UBC campus units and off-campus partners, including local civic institutions and community non-profit organizations.

ACAM Dialogue: Queer Asian Canadians

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ACAM Journal Launch – Tributaries

The Asian Canadian Asian Migration Studies program invites you to join us at it’s first academic ACAM journal launch. The ACAM undergraduate journal is a new student-run publication that reaches across various disciplines, genres, and forms, to consider topics around Asian and Asian Canadian identity. The journal seeks to recognize and encourage dialogue around these topics, and to grow as these dialogues continue. Submissions from all UBC students, disciplines and cultural contexts at are welcome. The inaugural issue, “Tributaries”, features collected poetry, short stories, visual art, and essays. This event will be taking place on the traditional, unceded, ancestral homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation.

It’s About Time: A Retrospective of Asian Presence at UBC (May 3-31, 2016)

May 3-31, 2016 | Level 2 of Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | To commemorate UBC's Centennial, the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program invites you to celebrate 100 years of Asian communities at UBC.

ACAM Program: Celebrating a Century of Asian Communities at UBC

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | May 24, 2016 | 4-6pm | Jack Poole Hall, 2nd floor, Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre | To commemorate a century of Asian communities at UBC, there will be a screening of vignettes made from the ACAM Centennial Alumni Project: Retelling UBC's History from an Asian Canadian Lens.

UBC ACAM Program: Sexual Violence in Asian Communities in Canada

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | March 18, 2016 | 12-1pm | Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. | Join Dr. Nora Angeles, Dr. JP Catungal, and K.Ho as they discuss sexual violence in Asian communities in Canada. The audience will engage in a facilitated dialogue with the panelists as we explore how sexual violence impacts Asian communities in Canada through the context of colonization and racism.

Articulations: ACAM Creative Showcase

Jan. 29, 2016, 12-1pm | IKBLC Lillooet Room (301) | RSVP for lunch | Looking to escape the rain this January? The ACAM (Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies) program warmly invites you to its first Creative Showcase event featuring ACAM students and alumni.

Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies Community Project Showcase

Are you interested in learning about some of the amazing research that Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies (ACAM) students are doing? Do you want to see what collaboration looks like between students and Asian Canadian communities? Thinking of taking an ACAM course next term but not sure what kind of projects you can do? […]

Telling Stories with Data - SLAIS Presentations (June 15, 2012, 2-3pm)