Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education. In September 2012 the re-visioned teacher education (BEd) program will begin. The presenters of this seminar will discuss the ways their long-standing PBL curriculum will fit with the new CREATE curriculum.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Zavalkoff, A. (2002). Teaching the teachers. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 6(3-4), 243. [Link]
Cramer, E. P., Ed. (2002). Addressing homophobia and heterosexism on college campuses. Harrington Park Press, The Haworth Press, Inc.
Hartley, P., Woods, A., Pill, M., & Taylor & Francis eBooks – CRKN. (2005). Enhancing teaching in higher education: New approaches for improving student learning. New York; London: Routledge. [Link]
Farr Darling, L., Erickson, G. L., & Clarke, A. (2007). Collective improvisation in a teacher education community (1. Aufl. ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-5668-0 [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in partnership with Woodward Library and Richmond Public Library. The Health Information Series is an ongoing public lecture series that take place in the Lower Mainland community. Dr. Roger Wong is Clinical Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia (UBC), Assistant Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education of the UBC Faculty of Medicine, and Associate Program Director of the UBC Internal Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Wong is also Consultant Physician and Head of the Geriatric Consultation Program, Vancouver General Hospital. His clinical research focuses on hospital medicine in vulnerable older adults, including quality improvement in acute care geriatrics. He has received numerous awards of appreciation from the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia to recognize his advocacy work in the community.
UBC Library Resources
Sztramko, R., Chau, V., & Wong, R. Y. (2011). Adverse drug events and associated factors in heart failure therapy among the very elderly. Canadian geriatrics journal: CGJ, 14(4), 79. [Link]
Wong, R. Y. (2013). Improving Health Care Transitions for Older Adults Through the Lens of Quality Improvement. JAMDA. [Link]
Villanyi, D., Fok, M., & Wong, R. Y. (2011). Medication reconciliation: identifying medication discrepancies in acutely ill hospitalized older adults. The American journal of geriatric pharmacotherapy, 9(5), 339-344. [Link]
We have been featuring resources from Rare Books and Special Collections that relate to the place names used in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as room names. Sometimes we find it challenging to find a related resource; sometimes the challenge is in narrowing down our research!
Such is the case with Victoria. Victoria B.C., on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, is our province’s capital and hence the place of many events in the province’s history. Rare Books and Special Collections contains almost innumerable books, maps, documents, and photographs related to Victoria. However, to rare books enthusiasts, there is one (or two) events from Victoria’s history that are of particular note: the publication of the first book (or books) to be printed in British Columbia.
What is largely accepted to be the first book printed in B.C. is Order in council constituting the Supreme Court of Civil Justice of Vancouver Island and rules of practice and forms to be used therein, which basically amounted to a “rule book” for the Supreme Court in Victoria. It was printed at the Victoria Gazette in November 1858.
“Order in Council…”
The copy photographed above is particularly special: it was David Cameron‘s personal copy! David Cameron was the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia- in other words, not only did he own the book, he wrote the book too. This copy was given to us by Dr. Wallace Chung, on the occasion of the re-opening of theChung Collection in Spring 2008. David Cameron’s signature can be seen on the cover, and on the Act to provide for the Administration of Justice in Vancouver’s Island, tipped in the front:
David Cameron’s signature
So, first book printed in B.C.- straightforward story, right? There was some debate over the years regarding which came first: Order in Council or Alfred Waddington’s Fraser Mines Vindicated, or, the History of Four Months.:
“Fraser Mines Vindicated”
It may have had something to do with Waddington’s preface, describing itself as “the first book published on Vancouver Island.” However, even Waddington’s own fine print explains that, “When the above was written Judge Cameron’s Book of Practice had not yet appeared.”
“Fraser Mines Vindicated” preface
Apparently the Order in Council leapfrogged ahead of Fraser Mines by mere days. In Lowther’s A Bibliography of British Columbia, she explains that Order in Council “has the distinction of being the first book printed in the colony of Vancouver Island, coming off the press ahead of Waddington’s Fraser mines vindicated.”
In the Barber Centre, the Victoria Learning Theatre is room 182. This is a large lecture theatre and is often used for special events.
Victoria Learning Theatre, courtesy of UBC Library Communications
Professor Campbell is the Director of Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University. She teaches Canadian environmental history, history of cultural landscapes, national and regional identities in Canada, and history of the arts. Her areas of expertise also include public history and Scandinavian history. This talk takes its inspiration from a passage in Stephen Leacock’s 1936 essay, “I’ll stay in Canada,” in which he writes: “To all of us here, the vast unknown country of the North, reaching away to the polar seas, supplies a peculiar mental background.” Leacock’s apparent affinity for a vast and never-seen space, the comfortable nationalization of an Ontario point-of-view, and the belief that Canadians share a “peculiar mental background” by virtue of our geographical location says a lot about Canadian attitudes toward nature in the twentieth century.
Claire Campbell interrogates this by focusing on the arts to examine Canadians’ cultural investment in both the concept and geography of wilderness spaces. Her talk will focus on post-Confederation Canada. Her concern is with Canadians trying to act as Canadians; naturalizing a certain territory and certain behaviour. It will draw together an eclectic constellation of sources to give a sense of the ubiquitous reach of wilderness references, moving from the more imaginative and impressionistic in the arts, to popular and consumer culture, and then to physical places where we have attempted to realize an ideal. Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Campbell, C. E., & DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books. (2011). A century of parks Canada, 1911-2011. Calgary, Alta: University of Calgary Press. [Link]
Campbell, C. E. (2005). Shaped by the west wind: Nature and history in Georgian bay. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Campbell, C. (2008). ‘It was Canadian, then, typically Canadian’: Revisiting wilderness at historic sites. British Journal of Canadian Studies, 21(1), 5-34. doi:10.3828/bjcs.21.1.2. [Link]
Summerby-Murray, R. E., & Campbell, C. E. (2013). Land and sea: Environmental history in Atlantic Canada. Fredericton, NB: Acadiensis Press.
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. The Composers’ Collective is proud to offer the third annual concert of Michael Park and Friends, an evening featuring contemporary works performed by the pianist Michael Park and accompanying guests. Michael Park is currently a third-year DMA student in Music Composition at UBC, while remaining active as a pianist, interpreting music of both established and emerging contemporary composers. This intimate fireside concert of chamber music, in the tradition of the 19th century salon, demonstrates the eclectic nature of contemporary Western Art Music. The innovation, ingenuity and beauty of today’s musical scene will be given focus through live performances and introductions from the composers themselves.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Kolt, R. P. (2015). Nationalism in western art music: A reassessment. National Identities, 17(1), 63-71. doi:10.1080/14608944.2014.920806 [Link]
VanWeelden, K. (2012). Classical music as popular music: Adolescents’ recognition of western art music. Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 31(1), 14-24. [Link]
Warren Cariou is from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he grew up in a family of Métis, German, and French heritage. He has written a book of novellas, The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs, and a memoir/cultural history entitled Lake of the Prairies, and he has also edited several texts by Aboriginal writers including Marvin Francis’s Bush Camp and the recent anthology from Kegedonce Press: W’daub Awae: Speaking True. He has recently produced a documentary film, Land of Oil and Water, and he is working on a documentary about storytelling. He is also working on a novel and a collection of poems. Cariou is a Canada Research Chair at the University of Manitoba, where he directs the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture. Marie Clements is an award-winning performer, playwright, screenwriter, director, producer and founding artistic director of urban ink productions and fathom labs highway. Her ten plays including Copper Thunderbird, Burning Vision, The Unnatural and Accidental Women, and Urban Tattoo have been presented on some of the most prestigious stages for Canadian and international work including the Festival de Theatre des Ameriques (Urban Tattoo 2001, Burning Vision 2003) in Montreal, and The Magnetic North Festival (Burning Vision 2003 and Copper Thunderbird 2007) in Ottawa, and have garnered awards including 2004 Canada-Japan Award, short listed for the 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award, Jessie Richardson Awards and a Jack Webster Journalism nomination. As writer and producer her full-length play Copper Thunderbird premiered as a co-production with The National Arts Centre in Ottawa, May 2007 and at The Magnetic North Festival 2007.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Cariou, W. (2002). Epistemology of the woodpile (the woodpile metaphor in Canadian and American fiction). University of Toronto Quarterly, 71(4), 909-917. [Link]
Cariou, W. (2007). Demography in the balance. Literary Review of Canada, 15(8), 22. [Link]
Cariou, W. (2006). Humanity behind bars. Literary Review of Canada, 14(1), 18. [Link]
Rebecca Irani, marketing and communications manager at UBC Bookstore, Annie Moss and Randy Hooper, founders of Discovery Organics and Chef Steve Golob from Place Vanier Residence will discuss the business case behind sustainable food and the cost and benefit of eating local, organic, and fair trade. Speakers will discuss the business case behind sustainable food.
Hosted by Common Energy UBC, Oxfam UBC, and the UBC Commerce Undergraduate Society’s Sustainability Committee, “Chew On This,” is a week-long series of lectures, panel discussions, and workshops. Common Energy UBC is a student-run organization of diverse and forward-thinking individuals working to incorporate sustainability into all aspects of the UBC community. It aims to affect real change by building strong networks and working proactively with the University, while fostering leadership and engaging peers through innovative programming. Oxfam UBC is an organization committed to developing innovative ways to support Oxfam’s important aid and relief work, and to raise awareness of global poverty. The UBC Commerce Undergraduate Society‘s Sustainability Committee works to provide opportunities for Sauder students to educate themselves on what sustainability means in the context of business and motivate students to integrate sustainability into their professional and personal lives. As well as using the CUS as a model for how sustainability can be implemented into the operations and strategic thinking of an organization. The purpose behind this week is to open a dialogue about sustainable food on campus and engage students through a variety of different forums. This is an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to engage in an open discussion around these topics which are growing increasingly important as the world’s population continues to grow and the effects of climate change on food production begin to show.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Eweje, G., Perry, M., & Emerald Business,Management & Economics Book Series. (2011). Business and sustainability. Bingley; Ipswich: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. [Link]
Wells, P. E., & ebrary eBooks. (2013). Business models for sustainability. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated. doi:10.4337/9781781001530 [Link]
Ionescu-Somers, A., Steger, U., & Palgrave Connect Business & Management Collection 2008. (2008). Business logic for sustainability: A food and beverage industry perspective. New York; Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan. [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, hosted by Common Energy UBC, Oxfam UBC, and the UBC Commerce Undergraduate Society’s Sustainability Committee. “Chew On This,” is a week-long series of lectures, panel discussions, and workshops. A diverse group of panelists will share their research and thoughts on the topic of Canada and what it means to have sustainable food in Canada.
Panelists include:
* Dr. Andrew Riseman, Associate Professor of Applied Biology and Plant Breeding in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems; co-chair of the Campus Academic Plan committee working to guide the future of the UBC Farm.
* Dr. Sean Smukler, Assistant Professor of Applied Biology and Soil Science; Junior Chair, Agriculture and the Environment; research working with farmers to assess impacts of farm management practices.
* Dr. James Vercammen, Professor in both the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and the Sauder School of Business; research focussing on food and resource economics.
* Will Valley, Project Coordinator, Think&Eat Green@School; member of Inner City Farms. Will’s research interests include the analysis and application of community-engaged scholarship and food system education
* Anelyse Weiler, Communications Coordinator, UBC Farm
* and Sophia Baker-French, Registered Dietician; MSc Candidate in Human Nutrition; previous Research Assistant with Think and Eat Green @ School; prior coordinator at the UBC Farm School Tours program.
Moderator: Amy Frye, Acting Director of UBC Farm
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Chapagain, T., & Riseman, A. (2012). Evaluation of heirloom and commercial cultivars of small grains under low input organic systems. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 3(5), 655-669. doi:10.4236/ajps.2012.35080 [Link]
Chapagain, T., & Riseman, A. (2014). Barley-pea intercropping: Effects on land productivity, carbon and nitrogen transformations. Field Crops Research, 166, 18-25. doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2014.06.014 [Link]
Sánchez-Moreno, S., Smukler, S., Ferris, H., O’Geen, A. T., & Jackson, L. E. (2008). Nematode diversity, food web condition, and chemical and physical properties in different soil habitats of an organic farm: 1. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 44(5), 727. doi:10.1007/s00374-007-0256-0 [Link]
Brodt, S., Klonsky, K., Jackson, L., Brush, S. B., & Smukler, S. (2009). Factors affecting adoption of hedgerows and other biodiversity-enhancing features on farms in California, USA. Agroforestry Systems, 76(1), 195-206. doi:10.1007/s10457-008-9168-8 [Link]
As part of the Learning Centre’s community information resources page, this week we are highlighting a fairly new open access resource, the World Digital Library (WDL) which is a multilingual digital portal with significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world, containing a world map and a timeline, and organized by geographic regions. This resource is useful for researchers, educators, history enthusiasts, particularly those who are interested in content-rare books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, prints, sound recordings, and films. A large number of libraries, archives, and cultural institutions collaborated with the WDL in contributing their collections of cultural content.
Not surprisingly, the World Digital Library contains many cultural treasures. One of them for example, is the Complete Library in Four Sections (Siku Quanshu), held at the National Library of China. The Siku quanshu (Complete library in four sections) was compiled during Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, was the largest collection of texts in pre-modern China and has an important historical place in the histories of cultural texts and academic thought in China.
Or how about the famous original watercolour drawing of “Retreat of Napoleon from Leipzig“? An original 1813 watercolor drawing by John Augustus Atkinson, this digitize art piece shows Napoleon seated in a tent shelter, surrounded by soldiers and members of his staff.
To find out more about this impressive open access product, you can go to the World Digital Library.
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Reads Sustainability. Captain Charles Moore, a scientist and activist, discusses “The Greatest Infection of the Sea” detailed in his acclaimed new book Plastic Ocean. Learn the shocking truth about the unintended consequences of the “Age of Plastics”, how we got here, & what we must do to stop adding to the millions of tons of plastic choking the world’s oceans. In 1997, Captain Charles Moore discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch– a whirlpool of plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean. Since his discovery, Moore has been analyzing the giant litter patch and its disastrous effects on ocean life. Through the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, he hopes to raise awareness about the problem and find ways to restrict its growth. He’s now leading several expeditions to sample plastic fragments across thousands of miles of the Pacific.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Gross, M. (2015). Oceans of plastic waste. Current Biology : CB, 25(3), R93-R96. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.01.038 [Link]
Marris, E. (2014). Fate of ocean plastic remains a mystery. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature.2014.16508 [Link]
Ecklund, E. (2005). The ocean’s plastic plague. California Coast & Ocean, 21(4), 25-25.
Plastics in oceans decompose and release hazardous chemicals. (2009). Clean-Soil Air Water, 37(9), 682-682. [Link]
