Non-UBC participants welcome!

Calling All Designers: The HCI@UBC steering committee invites you to submit a logo that represents the spirit of HCI@UBC.
Deadline: Friday, October 10^th, 5pm PST

Design Vision:  We would like a logo that reflects the vision of HCI@UBC initiative. “The goal of the HCI@UBC initiative at UBC is to bring together faculty and students from multiple disciplines towards advancing the field of HCI and towards collaborative relationships between disciplines.” The logo should reflect this goal. See description of HCI from our Website (http://hci.ubc.ca/)

Current Logo:

Design Values:  We want the brand to be Modern and Playful, yet Simple and Subtle (and not too ‘cartoony’).

Visual Style Must Haves and Suggestions:
MUST include: HCI@UBC
MUST be able to include OR exclude “Designing for People”
Consider incorporating the UBC logo or aspects of UBC logo into the design
Consider using the words to become the design
We are looking for something that is professional, but not too corporate

Submission Requirements: Submit your Entry (or entries) with the subject heading “HCI@UBC Logo Contest” to leanne.currie@nursing.ubc.ca
File Requirements: Please send medium resolution design file. If your design is selected, we will request a high resolution file.

The contest is not limited to UBC – please distribute as widely as possible!

CONTACT: leanne.currie@nursing.ubc.ca
NOTE: We reserve the right to not choose any of the submitted designs.

Looking forward to your entries,
Leanne Currie
on behalf of the HCI-at-UBC steering committee
HCI-at-UBC Steering Committee Members:
•Joanna McGrenere (Computer Science)
•Eric Meyers (iSchool/SLAIS)
•Konstantin Beznosov (ECE)
•Leanne Currie (School of Nursing)
•Machiel Van der Loos (Mechanical Engineering)

The Alberta Library Conference (ALC) 2015 Planning Committee, with support from the Library Association of Alberta (LAA) and the Alberta Library Trustees Association (ALTA), is pleased to announce that the call for proposals for the 2015 Alberta Library Conference is open. ALC 2015 takes place in Jasper, Alberta April 30 to May 3, 2015.

The ALC 2015 theme is #network.  On its own, the word network has many meanings for libraries.  The hashtag (#) takes this year’s theme to a different level.  By the simple act of adding a hashtag to a word or phrase, it becomes searchable on social media, organized by subject or topic, and, if promoted by enough individuals, can “trend” and attract more people to the discussion.  What are your strategies for building networks in your library and community groups?  What role do libraries play in creating and facilitating community conversations?  What are the important social trends that are impacting and shaping the service you design and provide?  The #network theme also encompasses the personal networks we form. How does personal networking help improve your library and your life? For example, what kind of networking takes place at this conference and how does it benefit our libraries?

The Committee strives to provide a range of sessions that are of interest to the broader library community in Alberta. Proposals from small rural libraries to large academic institutions demonstrate the complexity of librarianship as well as the adaptability and diversity of those who work within them. We encourage proposals from academic, public, school and special libraries of all sizes for consideration to present at the conference.

We are interested in receiving proposals from trustees for sessions which will provide education and training for Library Board members. If you are a public librarian, please share this call for submissions with your Board. In addition, if trustees have suggestions for speakers or topics of interest to trustees, they are invited to send them to Dr. Tanya Pollard to see if a session can be developed.

If you would like to be part of our program focused on examining and expanding our networks and exploring some of the many possibilities for connections facilitated by libraries through our people, services and spaces, please submit your proposal at Alberta Library Conference 2014 Call for Session Proposals http://bit.ly/1tKVLGh

Submission deadline is September 30, 2014

ALC Chair (2015):

• Lisa Hardy
  email: laa@albertalibraryconference.com

Program Co-Chairs:

• Lisa Hardy for LAA
  email: laa@albertalibraryconference.com

• Dr. Tanya Pollard for ALTA
  email: alta@albertalibraryconference.com

Questions may be addressed to ALC Chair, Lisa Hardy.

Thank you for your interest in the Alberta Library Conference

Graduate Pathways to Success Workshop:

Professional and Business Effectiveness

Thursday, September 25th, 2014, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Road

This 3.5 hour workshop, hosted in partnership with the Postdoctoral Fellows Office (PDFO) will help graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to:

• improve their communication and business effectiveness and get better results
• utilize professional business etiquette principles more effectively
• manage meetings more successfully

This program will be highly experiential and will give participants opportunity to practice having purposeful, professional conversations, incorporate professional business etiquette principles into their toolbox and practice how to manage meetings more successfully.

Attendees will:

• be more confident expressing a professional conversational signature, including being assertive, while managing power differentials with less stress and more success;
• experience better results and have more impact as they incorporate their conversational signatures into day-to-day conversations and committee meetings as they interact with supervisors, colleagues and the business community;
• be aware of the impacts of not following generally accepted professional business etiquette principles and also the benefit of following professional business etiquette principles; and,
• have more confidence and will experience much better results as they lead, facilitate and manage meetings.

Facilitator:

Dene Rossouw is the Principal and Motivational Coach at Possibil.com, helping leaders build their influence and inspire innovation at work. He helps his clients have the necessary conversations of leadership and helps organizations innovate by leveraging the power of employee ideas. Dene is the Past President of the Vancouver chapter of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers and is a Certified Executive Coach through Royal Roads University. He is a Certified Emotional Intelligence Facilitator and has the Associate Certificate in Workplace Conflict from the Justice Institute of British Columbia. He has a degree in Theology from the University of South Africa.

Registration: Priority will be given to UBC graduate students registered in the current academic session.

To register, please visit : https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3817

Postdoctoral Fellows may register at https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3754

For information about future Graduate Pathways to Success events, visit: www.grad.ubc.ca/pathways

We appreciate the support of the Graduate Student Society for these events.

Graduate Pathways to Success Workshop