2012
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January 2013 Courses (All Students)
If you have decided not to take any of the January term courses in which you are registered, please go ahead and drop those courses now. We still have wait lists for some courses and it will be a big help to your fellow students if we can clear some of the wait lists sooner […]
6th Annual Drop Everything and Read Event by the BC Teacher-Librarians’ Association (MLIS, Dual)
On behalf of the BC Teacher-Librarians’ Association I would like to invite your library (patrons and staff, alike) to join teacher-librarians, school libraries, and literacy advocates across BC in helping to celebrate National School Library Day by participating in our 6th Annual Drop Everything and Read Event. This BC-wide event has grown to include participation […]
ALA Student Chapter Does Virtual Readout for Banned Books Week
For Banned Books Week 2012, the UBC Student Chapter of the American Library Association created a Virtual Readout of the picture book And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, with illustrations by Henry Cole. Since its publication in 2005, it has regularly made the top 10 list of the most challenged books […]
UBC iSchool Team Wins 2012 HCIR Challenge
The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, the iSchool at UBC, is proud to announce that the iSchool team has won the 2012 HCIR Challenge. Part of the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval Conference, held Oct. 4-5 in Cambridge, MA, this year’s Challenge was to design a system to provide efficient […]
Back on Track With Your Thesis and Leaders’ Dialogue (All Students)
Registration is now open for: Getting Back on Track with your Thesis (increase motivation and improve strategies to complete your thesis!) Tuesday, October 16th, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm For a complete session description, see http://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/7682-gps-event-getting-back-track-your-thesis To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g1e84 Leaders’ Dialogue Series: On Making a Difference for Good (join Dr. Susan Porter in […]
Mary Jinglewski Chosen for ACCOLEDS Workshop
MLIS student Mary Jinglewski has been selected as the UBC iSchool student for the annual ACCOLEDS training workshop on social science data and GIS. ACCOLEDS, which stands for A COPPUL Consortium of Library Electronic Data Services, is hosting the workshop in Winnipeg, MB, November 27-29. All expenses are paid by the Data Liberation Initiative, and […]
Banned Books Week: Lawrence Public Library Creates Artistic Trading Cards
Article with trading card images for banned books: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/banned-books-week-trading-cards_n_1941171.html
Colloquium: American Children’s Literature Critic and Historian, Leonard Marcus
Sponsored by The University of British Columbia Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Program and The Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable Present A talk by world-renowned entitled: “‘Let the Wild Rumpus Start’: Maurice Sendak as Storyteller and Psychologist” Friday, October 12th, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30 PM The Lillooet Room, Room 301, Level 3, Chapman Learning Commons, […]
REMINDER: RSVP Today for Public Librarians’ Interest Group Meeting (MLIS, Dual Students)
A reminder that today is the RSVP deadline for next week’s social gathering of the Public Librarians’ Interest Group. Two of the goals of the Public Librarians Interest Group are: 1) To encourage and foster collegial collaboration; and 2) To promote networking and mentoring opportunities. As such, you are invited to a social gathering to […]
Thanks To All For Contributing To The Success Of The UNESCO Conference (All Students)
On behalf of myself and Ingrid Parent as co-organizers of the UNESCO conference, it is my great pleasure to thank all faculty and students who contributed to the great success of the UNESCO conference last week. While many names are given in the iSchool news on our website – including Professors Duranti as Program Chair, […]
