Generation One
Image credit: Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society
The 16th annual month-long festival to celebrate Asian Heritage Month in Metro Vancouver – explorASIAN 2012 – feature “Generation One Art Exhibition” as one of its signature programs at multiple sites throughout Metro Vancouver during the month of May, 2012. GENERATION ONE, as one of Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society’s signature programs, is a platform for local artists to showcase their artworks in the community. It is a distinctive art exhibition that features artworks of inter-cultural and inter-generation Pan-Asian artists, found in the dynamic area of Metro-Vancouver.
A special purpose of this year’s art exhibition is to put the spotlight on young artists who are either home-grown first-generation Asian-Canadians or new immigrants. In order to nurture and support young local talents, the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) has entered a new partnership with the International Arts Gallery to co-present a two-part exhibition at the International Arts Gallery from May 4 to 25, 2012.
GENERATION ONE 3D Art Exhibition at Irving K. Barber Center, UBC, May 4- May 25, 2012
Curated by VAHMS artists, this 3D exhibition will demonstrate the art of poetry as expressed in 3-dimensional art forms from different Asian cultural traditions. Check out the glass cases in the lobby and corridor at the IKBLC.
Image Credit: Lee Jong Jin
Born in Seoul, South Korea and trained at the Department of Sculpture at Seoul’s Hong-Ik University, Lee Jong Jin has been a professional artist since 1997. Between 1997 and 2008, Lee has had seven solo exhibition and 60 group exhibitions in Korea. Having immigrated to Canada in 2008, Lee has exhibited with the Korean Artists Association in Canada, and serving as president of the Korean Artists Association from 2010 to 2011.
My sculptures are an expression of my past, present, and inner happiness. I strive to maximize impact and meaning through simple forms. Children, love, happiness, and nature are my favourite subjects. I love stone sculptures. I hope my work warms hearts as hard as stone and helfs make the world a more loving place. [출처] Lee Jong Jin |작성자 모난돌이
Image credit: Ju-Ann Hu
Influenced by ancient cultures, Irene Ju-Ann Hu uses the language of multidimensional modern art to map myths or legends into visual expression. She works with ancient symbols to guide the viewer on a path towards active participation. I paint with oils and pigments, and create sculpture in wood and stone. Each piece becomes an individual note within a larger composition. After completing her BFA at the Royal Fine Art School in Den Bosch, Netherlands, she worked for two years with several accomplished artists and other master students at Universitait der Kunst, Berlin, Germany. Many cultures, philosophies, myths and symbols have influenced my thoughts and my creativity. Irene Ju-Ann is a Vancouver artist, she was born in China, move to Netherlands in 1979, was raised up in Nethelands. She studied in Berlin, Germany. In 2001 she moved to Leuven, Belgium. In 2006 she moved to Vancouver, Canada.
Contact: Celia Leung, Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society Program Coordinator
Live Webcast of the IFLA Presidential Programme: Libraries – A Force for Change
Image Credit: UBC Library
The IFLA 2012 Presidential Program is intended to provide IFLA, its members, and all organizations and individuals, with an investigation of these issues and guidance as to how institutions and communities can work together to develop the most useful and productive relationships.
UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre will be live webcasting this event, so please join us from wherever you are. Participate by tweeting your comments and questions. All times for sessions are listed in our Program. Times in our program are Pacific Daylight Time (Vancouver, BC).
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The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre will be offering a room for those on campus who are interested in attending this live webcast. Please join us at the Fraser River Room (Room 227) of the Learning Centre.
For more information about the live webcast, please contact Aleha McCauley or Allan Cho
Stolen Memories, Breaking the Silence Film Screenings at Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, May 29, 2012 – 6.00-7.00PM
Stolen Memories is a detective story about filmmaker Kagan Goh’s personal quest to return a photo album “stolen” from a Japanese Canadian family during the Japanese internment.
The filmmaker’s brother bought a photo album along with a framed photograph of a Japanese samurai warrior that once belonged to a Japanese Canadian family, at a garage sale for a mere $5 apiece. When his brother asked the Caucasian man who sold him the album how he had come to possess such a precious family heirloom, he replied indifferently that he found it in the attic collecting dust and he just wanted to “get rid of it.” The photographs are dated 1939. Three years before the Japanese internment.
To attend this event, please visit our registration page.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1942, Japanese Canadians were ordered to turn over property and belongings to the Custodian of Enemy Alien Property as a “protective measure only.” Caught in the whirlwind of anti-Japanese hysteria and paranoia, all of the Japanese descendents living in Canada at the time were rounded from their homes and herded off to internment camps and declared “enemy aliens.” They had no choice but to leave everything behind. The album was left behind when the family was interned and their possessions were either seized by the Canadian government and sold for a pittance, or stolen by looters.
Kagan Goh, aided by Mary Seki, his 70-year old detective sidekick, embarked upon a quest to find the rightful owners, find out what happened to them and return their lost photo album to them. Documenting the search as well as redressing the wrongs of the past is a symbolic “homecoming” – coming home in terms of returning to a place of self-acceptance, belonging, wholeness and healing.
Stolen Memories reflects deeply rooted issues of prejudice which have affected the Japanese Canadian community throughout the last one hundred years, experienced not just by the family but by the Japanese Canadians who helped in the quest to return the ‘stolen’ photo album. The extraordinary story is a microcosm within the macrocosm of the Japanese Canadian legacy.
Breaking the Silence is a short documentary written and directed by Kagan Goh and produced by Imtiaz Popat. The documentary is about Akihide John Otsuji, a Japanese Canadian who was imprisoned for defying a racist law called the Dispersal Campaign. After the Japanese internment, Japanese-Canadians were given the choice to either repatriate to Japan or move east of the Rockies, but not allowed to return to the West Coast. Aki returned to his hometown in Vancouver and was promptly imprisoned and labeled a criminal by the Canadian government. Mary Seki considers him to be a hero. “Breaking the Silence” is about Mary Seki’s quest to clear her brother’s name.
This event will take place at on May 29, 2012 at 6.00-7.00PM at the Dodson Room (Room 302) of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1
To attend this event, please visit our registration page.
As part of ExplorASIAN, and in partnership with Kagan Goh’s Stolen Memories, Monkeyking Motion Pictures, and Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society.
For more information, please contact Aleha McCauley or Allan Cho.
Dietmar Wolfram – Who are the Disciples and Admirers of an Author?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by SLAIS. Recitation (the act of citing a given author or her/his works multiple times) provides an indication of the influence of a cited author. This study investigated patterns of citation and recitation across frequently cited authors’ works to better understand how broadly citers have been influenced by cited authors and their publications. Dietmar Wolfram is Interim Dean & Professor School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Wolfram, D. (1996). Inter-record linkage structure in a hypertext bibliographic retrieval system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47(10). [Link]
Wolfram, D. (2003). Applied informetrics for information retrieval research. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited.
Wolfram, D. (2012). An analysis of Canadian contributions to the information science research literature: 1989–2008/Une analyse des contributions Canadiennes à la littérature de recherche en sciences de l’information : 1989–2008. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 36(1), 52-66. doi:10.1353/ils.2012.0005. [Link]
Wolfram, D. (2008). Search characteristics in different types of web-based IR environments: Are they the same? Information Processing and Management, 44(3), 1279-1292. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2007.07.010. [Link]
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Retell | Rethink | Recover
February 20, 2012 – April 30, 2012
RETELL
Focusing on the history of the Tōhoku region, this part of the exhibition includes Edo and Meiji-period works from the library’s Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era collection. The exhibition will highlight disaster prints such as those depicting catfish and dragons, common in Edo-period illustrated accounts of earthquakes and tsunamis. Historical maps of the areas affected by the 2011 disasters will also be displayed.
Location: Rare Books and Special Collections, Lower Level, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (click for map & hours)
RETHINK
Here the exhibition looks at the issue of nuclear energy and the debate that has taken place in Japan on this issue. As well, the exhibition highlights social media as a form of alternative media and information sharing in the wake of the disasters. Included in this part of the exhibition:
Nuclear imagery courtesy of Professor John O’Brian
Atomic bomb exposed tile donated to UBC by the Hiroshima University
Photos of anti-nuclear protests in Tokyo, contributed by UBC Alum Maho Harada
Japan Quake Map courtesy of Paul Nicholls
Twitter feeds contributed by UBC Alum Kozue Matsumoto
Facebook archives submitted by UBC Alum Brad Morrison
Animated video “nuclear poo”
Location: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Foyer (click for map & hours)
RECOVER
The final part of the exhibit uses the Asian Library collection as well as community contributions to recount Japan’s capacity to recover from adversity. The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami are examined, as well as past natural disasters that have struck the country. The exhibit features:
Ishinomaki handwritten newspaper reproductions (created in the days after the tsunami struck the Ishinomaki region)
– digital files courtesy of the Japan Newspaper Museum
Images of the Tsunami-affected region of Ogatsu, by UBC Alum Maho Harada
Images and blog entries related to volunteer relief efforts originating in Canada courtesy Manabu Ogawa
Postcards depicting the 1926 Tokyo earthquake courtesy Professor John O’Brian
Red Cross letter of recognition courtesy of the UBC Japan Association
Location: Asian Library (click for map & hours)
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Elizabeth Denham – Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by SLAIS. Open Data and Open Government represent a brave new world of information-sharing for citizens. Drawing on examples from the provincial, national and international realm, B.C.’s Information and Privacy Commissioner will discuss the opportunities and challenges of information and data-sharing in the context of Gov 2.0. Elizabeth Denham was appointed Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia in May, 2010. An expert in privacy and access, Ms. Denham has made significant contributions to data protection and has been an influential advocate for online privacy protection.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Denham, E., & Canadian Public Policy Collection. (2014). Failure to archive: Recommendations to modernize government records management. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia. [Link]
Eso, E. D. (1988). Promotion and outreach in a community archives. Vancouver: A.b.c.a.
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Margot Filipenko – The Multi-Purpose E-Portfolio: How Teacher Candidates Employ an Online Portfolio for Professional Development
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education. Margot Filipenko is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia and co-coordinator (with Brenda Lamb) of the Problem-Based Learning cohort. Dr. Filipenko teachs courses (graduate and undergraduate) both in literacy and in early childhood education. She is also a faculty member for the M.A. in Children’s Literature program housed in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS). She is also the Co-chair of the Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable. Dr. Filipenko’s research interests include early literacy, the texts and materials of early reading instruction, the relationship between picture books and graphic novels and the cultural aspects of children’s literature.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Filipenko, M. (1986). Struggles and outsiders are focus of modern adolescent literature. Highway One, 9(2), 15. [Link]
Ahn, J., & Filipenko, M. (2007). Narrative, imaginary play, art, and self: Intersecting worlds. Early Childhood Education Journal, 34(4), 279. doi:10.1007/s10643-006-0137-4 [Link]
Filipenko, M. (2004). Constructing knowledge about and with informational texts: Implications for teacher-librarians working with young children. School Libraries Worldwide, 10(1/2), 21. [Link]
Asselin, M., & Early, M. (2005). Accountability, assessment, and the literacies of information and communication technologies. Canadian Journal of Education / Revue Canadienne De l’Éducation, 28(4), 802-826. [Link]
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Standing Out While Fitting In: Succeeding in Academic Library Culture
Sponsored by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS) and the Academic Librarians in Public Service (ALPS) of the British Columbia Library Association, this event features a panel of librarians, who will discuss how to navigate a career in academic libraries. Panelists will discuss some of the common pitfalls for new librarians, strategies for integrating into an organization, and mapping a career path. The panel is especially useful for library school students looking at prospective careers paths, new hires who are just stepping into the field, or experienced librarians starting employment in academic libraries. Join us to hear five academic librarians engaged in a lively and reflective discussion on navigating a career in academic libraries.
Panelists discuss some of the common pitfalls for new hire librarians, strategies for integrating into an organization, and mapping a career path, with comments drawing from their personal experiences. This discussion will be of interest to a broad spectrum of librarians, from new hires to those in mid-career or those planning a move to another institution or sector. A Q&A period will also follow the second half of this event.
Panelists:
Dean Giustini is a Reference Librarian at the Biomedical Branch Library, Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre at UBC.
Teresa Lee is the e-Resource and Access Librarian at Woodward Library at UBC.
Janis McKenzie is the Head of Information and Instruction at SFU.
Julie Mitchell is the Managing Librarian at the Chapman Learning Commons at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC.
David Pepper is the Director of Library Services at BCIT.
April 18, 2012 – 6.00PM to 8.00PM
Lillooet Room, 301, at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
For more information:
Nick Josten, SLAIS