An article about the digitization of photo archives from the Reach Gallery Museum appears in the Abbotsford News. This project received funding from the BC History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
You can view the article here, and find out more about the BC History Digitization Program here.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and sponsored by the Wat Endowment and hosted by the Department of Asian Studies. Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture. David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies at Harvard University. The world’s leading scholar of modern Chinese fiction, his research specialties include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, late Qing fiction and drama, and comparative literary theory. Wang received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and has taught at National Taiwan University and Columbia University. His many honors include an honorary doctorate from Lingnan University (Hong Kong), and his appointments as an Academician of the Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and as a Yangtze River Scholar affiliated with Fudan University (Shanghai). Writing at a time when History has collapsed and Revolution has lost its mandate, writers cannot take up the two subjects without pondering their inherent intelligibility. Drawing upon theories on “post-history” as developed by scholars such as Jacques Derrida, Li Zehou and Liu Zaifu, and contemporary fictional works as created by writers such as Mo Yan, Yan Lianke and Wang Anyi, this lecture will address the following three issues: History after Post-History, Enlightenment versus Enchantment and Socialist Utopia and “the Best of all Best Possible Worlds”.
Author’s Titles at UBC Library
Wang, D. (1999). Under the soviet shadow: The Yining incident; ethnic conflicts and international rivalry in Xinjiang, 1944-1949. Wantage: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. [Link]
Wang, D., & Rojas, C. (2007). Writing Taiwan: A new literary history. Durham: Duke University Press. [Link]
Wang, D., & Shang, W. (2005). Dynastic crisis and cultural innovation: From the late Ming to the late Qing and beyond. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center. [Link]
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Book, Theatre and Film Reviews
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS) colloquium series. In today’s changing information society, knowledge curation is in demand, information literacy is essential, and those entering the workforce must be ready to demonstrate new competencies. No doubt, the library is a force of change, contributing to and accelerating the ever growing needs of e-research. Yet libraries can do more. Libraries need to shift their paradigm from “They will come” to “We will go to them” and in doing so, be prepared to explore new methods of outreach and community engagement at a local level and beyond. How do we, as librarians and information professionals, meet these demands? What trends are libraries currently facing that will impact future generations of information professionals? This presentation will address these key issues and offer a review of libraries and librarianship in a global context.
Ingrid Parent is the 14th University Librarian at the University of British Columbia. Ms. Parent assumed leadership of the UBC Library on July 1, 2009, shortly after winning an award from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship. She is also President-elect of IFLA and will serve as president from 2011-2013. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. Ms. Parent has an honours degree in History and a Masters in Library Science, both from UBC. She has held a variety of positions in the information profession prior to returning to her alma mater, including the role of Assistant Deputy Minister at Library and Archives Canada (LAC).
From the Westcoast Calligraphy Society “Letters to the Garden” is a design of colour, illustration, bookbinding, and paper making for everyone interested in the art of letters – with the theme of “Springtime” and “Gardens.” “Letters to the Garden” is a travelling exhibition that has been displayed throughout the lower mainland, including Cloverdale Library and Fleetwood Public Library in Surrey, and the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver, B.C. This exhibit at IKBLC can be seen in Learning Centre foyer and Ike’s Cafe Gallery.
On March 2, 2011, Dr. Larry Goldenberg, an award-winning Canadian researcher, pioneer in the treatment of prostate cancer and world-renowned advocate of patient education. Dr. Goldenberg authored one of the first books to explain prostate cancer treatment options in layman’s terms. The Intelligent Guide to Prostate Cancer: All You Need to Know to Take an Active Part in Your Treatment is widely considered to be one of the best resources available to men diagnosed with the disease. Dr. Goldenberg talks about how the 21st century will be a century of aging, and how the Men’s Health Initiative will help people not only live long, but live healthy.
Goldenberg, S. Larry, Ian M. Thompson, and Carol Glegg. Intelligent Patient Guide to Prostate Cancer: All You Need to Know to Take an Active Part in Your Treatment. Gordon Soules Book Pub, 2001. [Available at BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacks- Call Number: WJ752 .G64 2001]
Goldenberg, S. Larry, Ian M. Thompson, and Carol Glegg. Intelligent Patient Guide to Prostate Cancer: All You Need to Know to Take an Active Part in Your Treatment. Gordon Soules Book Pub, 2001. [Available at WOODWARD LIBRARY stacks – Call Number: WJ752 .G64 1997]
Goldenberg, Larry. (2005). Further fine tuning of hormone therapy. The Journal of urology, 174(2), 415-416. [Link to journal article]
Akakura, Koichiro, Nicholas Bruchovsky, Goldenberg, Larry, Paul S. Rennie, Anne R. Buckley, and Lorne D. Sullivan. “Effects of intermittent androgen suppression on androgen‐dependent tumors. Apoptosis and serum prostate‐specific antigen.” Cancer 71, no. 9 (1993): 2782-2790. [Link to journal article]
PubMed – Premier database containing over 23 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a focus on biomedicine.
MedlinePlus (Consumer Health) – Freely-searchable consumer health information site linking to simple overviews, dictionaries, directories, organizations and news for ~750 topics.
HLWIK International – HLWIKI International was created in 2006 as a tool to support LIBR 534: Health Information Sources and Services at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) at the University of British Columbia. It encourages all professional health librarians and professionals to participate.
What is the biggest social barrier to people getting diagnosed?
What do you think is the best educational tool, in terms of prostate cancer education?
Do you think Movember is effective in closing the social barrier/taboos surrounding prostate cancer?
What sparked your interest in prostate cancer?
Prostate Cancer Canada – http://www.prostatecancer.ca/
U.S. National Library of Medicine – Prostate Cancer – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001418/
Canadian Cancer Society – Information, Diagnoses and Treatments
Prostate Cancer Foundation – http://www.pcf.org
MedicineNet, Inc. – Owned and Operated by WebMD and part of the WebMD Network – http://www.medicinenet.com/prostate_cancer/article.htm#_Toc498458212
Prostate cancer methods and protocols edited by Pamela J. Russell, Paul Jackson, and Elizabeth A. Kingsley [UBC online resource]
Challenges in prostate cancer edited by Winsor Bowsher and Adam Carter [UBC Woodward Library – WJ752 .C493 2006]
Prostate cancer edited by Marc S. Ernstoff, John A. Heaney, Richard E. Peschel [UBC Woodward Library – WJ752 .P7684 1998]
Prostate cancer: making survival decisions by Sylvan Meyer and Seymour C. Nash [UBC Woodward Library – WJ752 .M494 1994]
For more information, please contact Allan Cho
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS) colloquium series. In today’s changing information society, knowledge curation is in demand, information literacy is essential, and those entering the workforce must be ready to demonstrate new competencies. No doubt, the library is a force of change, contributing to and accelerating the ever growing needs of e-research. Yet libraries can do more. Libraries need to shift their paradigm from “They will come” to “We will go to them” and in doing so, be prepared to explore new methods of outreach and community engagement at a local level and beyond. How do we, as librarians and information professionals, meet these demands? What trends are libraries currently facing that will impact future generations of information professionals? This presentation will address these key issues and offer a review of libraries and librarianship in a global context.
Ingrid Parent was the 14th University Librarian at the University of British Columbia. Ms. Parent assumed leadership of the UBC Library on July 1, 2009, shortly after winning an award from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship. She is also President-elect of IFLA and will serve as president from 2011-2013. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. Ms. Parent has an honours degree in History and a Masters in Library Science, both from UBC. She has held a variety of positions in the information profession prior to returning to her alma mater, including the role of Assistant Deputy Minister at Library and Archives Canada (LAC).
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Parent, I. (2000). Fifty years of service to Canadian libraries. National Library of Canada, Marketing and Publishing Services.
Parent, I. (1992). Speaking from — ABSB (acquisitions and bibliographic services). National Library of Canada, Marketing and Publishing Services.
Parent, I. (2000). Canadian bibliographic centre: The more things change, the more they stay the same. National Library of Canada, Marketing and Publishing Services.
Parent, I. (1999). International conference on national bibliographic services: A truly international experience. National Library of Canada, Marketing and Publishing Services.
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The Westcoast Calligraphy Society’s “Letters to the Garden” is an exhibition with a theme of spring-time and gardens. With different designs of colour, illustration, bookbinding, and paper making, within the mutual interest in the art of letters, “Letters to the Garden” was a travelling exhibition that has been displayed throughout the lower mainland, including Cloverdale Library and Fleetwood Public Library in Surrey, and the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver, B.C.
The Society began life in September 1978 as the Society for Italic Handwriting, B. C. Branch. As the Society grew and its members’ interests expanded, the focus broadened to all types of calligraphy and in June 1986, the name was changed to Westcoast Calligraphy Society. The society is an enthusiastic group of people with a common bond–a love of all things calligraphic. Members share knowledge of design, colour, illustration, bookbinding, paper making and our other talents with everyone interested in the art of letters with more experienced members teaching beginning and more advanced calligraphy throughtout the Lower Mainland.
To see photos of this exhibition, please find here.
Image Credit: UBC Library, Ray Hsu
Image Credit: UBC Library, Evelyn Lau
Living Under Plastic represents a major departure from Evelyn Lau’s previous poetry books. Instead of the focus on relationships and emotional damage that has characterized much of her earlier work, this book opens up to explore new subjects: family history, illness, death and dying, consumerism, and the natural world. In a tone that is often elegiac, without ever being maudlin, these poems are steeped in immortality and loss. Haunted by the pull of the past, there is strength of character and a sense of affirmation in all of these poems. While grounded in travel and in place, the tone is surprisingly meditative and contemplative.
Evelyn Lau began publishing poetry at the age of 12; her creative efforts helped her escape the pressure of home and school. In 1985, at age 14, Lau left home and spent the next several years living itinerantly in Vancouver as a homeless person, sleeping mainly in shelters, friends’ homes and on the street. Despite the chaos of her first two years’ independence she submitted a great deal of poetry to journals and received some recognition. A diary she kept at the time was published in 1989 as Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid. The book was a critical and commercial success
Ray Hsu’s Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon, the follow-up to his award-winning first collection, Anthropy, is the second book in a prospective trilogy that explores the “grammar of personhood.” He has published over a hundred and twenty-five poems in over forty magazines internationally. Ray is an instructor at the Creative Writing Faculty at UBC.
Ray Hsu and Evelyn Lau read at the Victoria Learning Theatre of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on Febraury 24, 2011.
UBC Continuing Studies collaborates with other members of the UBC community to provide an ongoing series of free lectures, dialogues and debates on topics of interest to the general public – locally, nationally and internationally. The Lifelong Learning Series is held in the fall and winter terms at UBC Robson Square and is sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as part of its webcast collection.
Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations House of Learning, the Irving. K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Continuing Studies.
In 2010/2011, UBC Robson Square hosted this series of special dialogues on critical issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought, which included:
Restoring the Balance: Aboriginal Women’s Issues in Canada by Beverley K. Jacobs
Lands, Treaties, and Development Strategies by Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot
Contemporary First Nations Art NOW – An illustrated talk with Shawn Hunt, Lori Blondeau and Dana Claxton
Education, Community Initiatives & Mainstream Institutions by Erin Freeland Ballantyne and Dr. Glen Coulthard
On March 2, 2011, Dr. Larry Goldenberg – director of the Vancouver Prostate Centre and head of the Department of Urologic Sciences at UBC and an award-winning Canadian researcher as a pioneer in the treatment of prostate cancer and world-renowned advocate of patient education, gave a talk at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as part of the IKBLC-Woodward Library sponsored Health Information Series.
Dr. Goldenberg’s book, Prostate Cancer: All You Need to Know to Take an Active Part in Your Treatment, now in its third edition, is widely considered to be one of the best resources available to men diagnosed with the disease.
The Q&A Webcast of this event can be viewed here in its entirety: http://tiny.cc/goldenberg
Seats are limited, so please reserve as soon as possible for this opportunity!
Wednesday March 2, 2011 – 4:30pm -5:30pm
Chilcotin Board Room (Rm 256) at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
To ensure a seat, please RSVP in advance: 604.827.4366 or ikblc-events@interchange.ubc.ca
Presented by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
and UBC Woodward Library