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Deadline Reminder – Conference Travel funding for MLIS/Dual Students (MLIS, Dual)
If you are interested in presenting at, attending, organizing or participating in the organization of a conference in your area of study or any allied field before April 2013, SLAIS may be able to provide a small amount of financial support. To apply for funding talk to a full-time faculty member whose research and teaching […]
Project and Stress Management (All Students)
Registration is now open for: Foundations of Project Management I: a team-based approach. Offered in partnership with the Mitacs Step program. Tuesday & Wednesday, October 30th & 31st 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Students must commit to attending both days)For a complete session description, please visit http://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/7668-gpsmitacs-event-foundations-project-management-i-team-based-approach-2-days You may register at https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g1ed8 This event is […]
HOLD THE DATE: Changing Times: Inspiring Libraries (MLIS, Dual)
Changing Times: Inspiring Libraries Summit True or False? – I want to live, work and learn in a community where knowledge is exciting, important and easy to get. – My library is not an economic, social or creative hub of my community. – I want my library to be more. If you answered true to […]
SLA President in Vancouver Oct. 24 (MLIS, Dual Students)
Brent Mai, President of the Special Libraries Association, will be in Vancouver on Wednesday October 24, 2012 to meet with Western Canada Chapter members about the SLA’s direction and vision. UBC SLAIS students are warmly invited to be part of this event. See http://wcanada.sla.org/2012/10/10/brent-mai-visit/ The session will be live-streamed and recorded for those who cannot […]
Resume Clinic + Career Planning (All Students)
Getting Back on Track with your Thesis: This session is currently being rescheduled and we apologize for the inconvenience. Furthermore, we were unable to contact students who had registered due to a technical issue with our online registration system. We hope to reschedule for later this fall or the spring. Space is still available for […]
Melanie Feinberg on Personal Digital Collections (All Students)
The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, the iSchool at University of British Columbia, is pleased to welcome Dr. Melanie Feinberg of the University of Texas at Austin as the next speaker in our 2012-13 Colloquium Series. She is speaking Wednesday, October 17, from 12 noon to 1 p.m., on the topic of “Personal […]
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 […]
