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Decolonize or Indigenize?: Transitionising for the information profession

Decolonize or Indigenize?: Transitionising for the information profession

December 15, 2015

Library and information institutions are colonial constructs that have collected and organized indigenous knowledge, but are they really inclusive? Using examples from Canada and New Zealand, this talk considers whether the answer to this question is to decolonize these institutions or to focus on indigenizing them. Speaker As Dodson Visiting Professor at the UBC iSchool […]

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Julie McLeod – Tackling the wicked problem of managing records in the digital environment

Julie McLeod – Tackling the wicked problem of managing records in the digital environment

March 24, 2015

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the iSchool at UBC. Drawing on her research on electronic records management, in particular the AC+erm (Accelerating positive change in electronic records management https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/acerm) project, Dr. Julie McLeod will argue that ERM is a ‘wicked problem.’ She will discuss how the Cynefin framework, […]

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Bruce Kingma – "iSchool Entrepreneurship and Innovation"

Bruce Kingma – "iSchool Entrepreneurship and Innovation"

October 3, 2013

Wednesday, October 16, 11:30 pm – 12:30 pm, Dodson Room (Rm 302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

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