A project that’s received funding from the B.C. History Digitization Program appears in Burnaby Now.
The Burnaby Oral History Digitization Project received a $10,000 grant from the digitization program, which is an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
You can view the article here, and find out about the B.C. History Digitization Program here.
Our featured place this week is Sandspit, a small community of approximately 400 people, located on the northeastern tip of Moresby Island, near Spit Point. Situated between two beaches– Shingle Bay Beach to the west and Shell Beach to the south-east– Sandspit is the only settlement on Moresby Island.
Located on a long peninsula of sand and gravel, Sandspit has been home to the Haida people for thousands of years. The town today is sustained by logging, transportation (it has the largest airport on Haida Gwaii) and tourism.
In Rare Books and Special Collections, we do not have a lot material on Sandspit. So, to search for archival records related to Sandspit, or other small communities in British Columbia, we recommend that you try searching MemoryBC.ca, a portal where you can access descriptions of archival materials preserved in repositories throughout the province.
If you search for the keyword “Sandspit”, you will retrieve records from the Haida Gwaii Museum at Qay’llnagaay, located on nearby Graham Island.
Room 381, the Sandspit Meeting Room, is named after this important community in British Columbia. Located on the third floor of the Irving K Barber, this meeting room is part of the Gateway Programs: Arts One, Science One, Coordinated Science and Coordinated Arts.
“Voices from Gold Mountain” at the UBC Chan Centre (May 15, 2011)
An orchestral premiere & Senior/Debut Orchestras Season Finale by the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchesta was performed at the UBC Chan Centre. Supported by the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, the performance is the world premiere of Jin Zhang’s Voices from Gold Mountain, an orchestral commission inspired by the struggles of early Chinese-Canadian pioneers. The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver.
For more information for the 2012 Asian Heritage Month events that will be sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, please stay tuned!
For more information, please contact Allan Cho
Asian Heritage Month National Conference (May 14, 2011)
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre sponsored a webcast of an inaugural nation-wide teleconference among Asian Heritage Month societies in Vancouver,Calgary, Montreal and Toronto to share expert speakers’ experiences in integrating Asian-Canadian content into Canada’s education system. The Vancouver lecture took place at UBC’s University Services Building.
The IKBLC Webcast page has been revamped and launched! 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.” For more information, please check out the new design!
For more information on programming and webcasts selection process, please contact Program Services Librarian Allan Cho
The Learning Centre’s current art exhibition, Generation:1 was recently featured on UBC This Week. Generation:1 is an exhibit which showcases the artworks of local Asian Canadian artists to the community at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Since 1996, the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society has endeavoured to explore the diversity of Asian Canadian life and culture and promote the discussion of relevant issues and concerns within and beyond the Asian Canadian community. Year 2011 is the second anniversary for VAHMS to host Generation:1 Art Exhibition at UBC’s Irving K. Barber Centre.
A trustworthy point of access to diverse sources of quality business planning information, education and assistance for B.C. entrepreneurs, the Small Business Accelerator at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is a program that develops information services to help B.C. entrepreneurs, start-ups and businesses find the relevant information and tools to enhance market research that is a crucial part of sound business planning.
Every year, Inc. Magazine publishes its list of the top industries for startup businesses. The list for 2011 has come out, and you might be surprised to learn what’s big for 2011.
To create their list, Inc. Magazine begins by: “Analyzing and comparing data from firms Sageworks, IBISWorld, and AnythingResearch.com on employment, profit growth, anticipated industry growth and a host of other factors“. A more complete explanation can be found here. This year, “Inc.com has pinpointed 17 industries that are not only growing, but are also ripe for new companies.” Let’s take a look at what made the list, and how the Small Business Accelerator can support you in pursuing one of these businesses:
Check out the full list, industry descriptions and a brief summary of why the industry is in demand.
The Best Industries to Start a Business (2011)
If you’re interested in following how new business trends have changed over the past few years, you might want to compare the 2011 list with a few previous years. Here are the links to past results: 2010 / 2008.
PHOTO CREDIT: Photo WFEE09: Knowledge Wall/Gallery created by The Value Web Photo Gallery, on July 10, 2009. Photo made available under aCreative Commons Attribution-2.0 Generic license. Last viewed on May 5, 2011.
PHOTO CREDIT: Photo [134/365] Crossing the River created by Pasukaru76, on January 12, 2011. Photo made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-2.0 Generic license. Last viewed on May 5, 2011.
Cross-posted at the Small Business Accelerator website.In our ongoing series of B.C. place names used in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, this week we will look at Fernie, B.C. Located in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, Fernie is nearer to Alberta than it is to the rest of the province. Fernie’s main industry was and still is coal mining (the town is named after William Fernie, who started the coal mines in 1887) but today also includes tourism (especially skiing- Fernie made a bid for the 1968 Olympic games), transport and trade.
The District Ledger, 1910
Our featured document is a newspaper- the District Ledger which ran under various titles from at least 1893 to 1919 (see the B.C. Archives list of microfilmed newspapers). The District Ledger was technically the newspaper of the local district of the United Mine Workers of America, but also functioned as a local newspaper and job printer for the area. RBSC holds one lonely copy of the District Ledger, dated Oct. 21, 1910. (Do you have a stack of old District Ledgers in your basement or attic? We’d love to hear from you!)
Rare Books and Special Collections collects historic newspapers from across the province (and embracing the whole alphabet, from Abbotsford to Zeballos!). Newspapers are very popular amongst researchers as a way of understanding the important issues in other communities, in other time periods. Newspaper digitization projects have frequently been funded by the BC History Digitization Program. For help on newspapers more generally, check out UBC Library’s Newspapers research guide.
In the Barber Centre, the Fernie Reading Room is number 380, and is a study area for the use of students in the UBC Gateway Programs: Arts One, Science One, Coordinated Arts and Coordinated Science.
Cross-posted with Rare Books & Special Collections at UBC Library.
An article on an innovative project that has received funding from the B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) appears in the Alberni Valley Times. The project involves the digitization of thousands of images related to the community growth of Port Alberni, located on Vancouver Island.
The BCHDP was launched by UBC’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in 2006, provides matching funds to help libraries, archives, museums and other organizations around the province digitize an enticing array of material. Nearly $180,000 was awarded to 21 projects in 2011. Altogether, BCHDP funding has totalled more than $820,000 for 98 projects throughout British Columbia.
You can view the Alberni Valley Times article here, and view a complete list of the approved 2011 projects here.
The Learning Centre has partnered with the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society for a two-month long art exhibition called, Generation One, which featured prominent artists in the Greater Vancouver area. The exhibition occurred from May 1st to June 30, 2011 at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Art Exhibit space.
