Today is the last day for graduation applications to be submitted to Enrolment Services by all students expecting to graduate in May. Application is made through the Student Service Centre
Freedom to Read Week Marathon Reading Event (All Students)
Freedom to Read Week officially starts tomorrow and runs through March 2, 2013
CLA/ALA is hosting a marathon reading event on Thursday, February 28th from 8 am – 8 pm in the Lilloet Room in IKBLC.
You can sign up to read their favourite banned or challenged books for ten minutes. There will be baked goods for sale and a drawing for prizes for anyone who participates.
To sign up, see link: https://tinyurl.com/a5k66cg
To see poster, go to: https://slais.sites.olt.ubc.ca/?attachment_id=3346
REGISTRATION AND WAIT LIST INSTRUCTIONS PLEASE READ CAREFULLY (All Students)
This is a long and fairly complex message so please read it carefully.
Registration for Summer Terms 1 & 2 opens for Graduate and PhD students on February 28th tomorrow. You have probably already received your emails from Enrolment Services giving detailed instructions and confirmations of the date and time that you can begin to register.
Please register for both terms as soon as is feasible after the opening time on Thursday. The School cannot pre-register you prior to the time specified so please do not call or email anyone asking that this be done.
You will need you CWL ID and password. Please ensure that your email address in SSC is up to date.
As the registration system is centralized please contact Enrolment Services if you are having difficulties. In the first instance visit http://www.students.ubc.ca/coursesreg/contact-us/ if you cannot locate the information you are looking for on this site, there is a link for your question or call 604 822 9836 or 1.877.272.1422.
If after contacting all of the above and working through the problem with them you are still unable to register please email Debra Locke using slais.registration@ubc.ca with the following information. Please use only this email as messages sent to other addresses will not be acted on.
Name:
Program:
Student number:
The Course and Section you wish to Register for:
Time you contacted Enrolment services and a brief outline of what they told you.
NEW WAIT LIST PROCEDURE – please use an up to date browser
The Summer Session wait lists will open on Friday, March 1st at 12 noon.
Please visit: https://applications.arts.ubc.ca/slais_waitlist
You will need your CWL to access the system.
The courses are laid out on the screen in this order: term-term-program.
Please click + on the course you wish to register for and the minus sign if you wish to drop. The system refreshes every 20 seconds and will let you know where you are on the wait list. Once the wait list is full you will not be able to register.
You can register for a MAXIMUM of 8 wait lists – this includes both terms. For example 5 wait lists in term 1 and 3 wait lists in term 2, for a total of 8 wait lists. Out of consideration for your fellow students, PLEASE do not go on wait lists for courses unless you are committed to taking them if a space opens up. You will be also responsible to remove yourself from the wait list if you decide not to take the course during the term.
Once a course wait list is exhausted, the course in SSC will be re-opened for registering by students. Spaces will be filled on a first come/first-served basis as students register. The SLAIS office staff will NOT be maintaining any wait lists.
If you experience difficulties please email slais.registration@ubc.ca with your student number detailing the exact wording of the error message that the system sent you in your email.
If you are a MLIS or Dual student who will complete their degree requirements in August 2013, and must take ARST 570/LIBR 504 in order to graduate, please contact Debra Locke so that a seat can be set aside.
March 8th Research Day! (All Students)
All space in the iSchool suite will be in use for Demos, Posters and Talks.
NOTE: There will be NO quiet study space within the school from 9am-5pm.
Sorry for the inconvenience – please join us!
Student-Organized Archives Symposium a Success
On Friday, February 8, the UBC student chapter of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) held its 5th annual ACA@UBC International Symposium at the Frederic Wood Theatre. The theme for 2013 was “We Shape Our Tools, and Our Tools Shape Us”, focusing on the nature of various technologies used in the records lifecycle. Attendees and presenters from as far away as Sweden arrived to speak on the way these technologies influence records creation, maintenance, use, and preservation. Lectures touched on problems and opportunities surrounding big data (Richard Marciano), social media records (Bethany Cron), forensic tools in electronic document and records management systems (Eric Borglund), and more.
The student organized ACA@UBC International Symposium is a gathering of students and working professionals from a variety of archival specializations. The symposium has grown in size and reputation since its inception, with this year’s event welcoming more than 125 registered attendees. “Each year we’ve been fortunate enough to see an increase in the number of professionals registered, and similarly, each year we manage to bring out new speakers and new topics,” say symposium committee members Jessica Flank and Valerie Léveillé. A “unique educational opportunity for archival students to venture into the professional community, … the symposium allows students to look at practical and theoretical issues in the field from an international perspective,” explain Flank and Léveillé. And for the professionals in attendance, the chance to participate in a new dialogue each year “keeps the local professional community entertained and educated on various topics,” according to Flank and Léveillé. This was also the first year that the ACA@UBC chapter involved local chapters from ARMA and AABC (Archives Association of British Columbia), expanding the professional development network even further.
For the ACA chapter and the Symposium’s organizing committee, the experience of planning and facilitating an event of this size is an extremely valuable professional development opportunity. “Professional-events planning is a trait we will use throughout our careers, and being able to articulate how we planned and executed the conference is highly beneficial experience,” contend Flank and Léveillé. Beyond that, seeing an event come together in action can be a satisfying experience. “It was just nice to see all of our team’s hard work pay off. The topic, the speakers, the attendance – the whole symposium was a hit.”
For more details about the symposium, including PowerPoint presentations from the talks and the chance to provide feedback about the event, please go to https://acastudentchapter.sites.olt.ubc.ca/.
iSchool@UBC Storms iConference 2013
From February 12th through the 15th, faculty and students from the iSchool@UBC gathered with over 500 peers in Fort Worth, Texas for iConference 2013, an annual gathering of information scholars, researchers, and practitioners. Hosted by the College of Information at the University of North Texas, this year’s conference theme was “Scholarship in Action: Data, Innovation, Wisdom”.
The School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, the iSchool@UBC was well-represented at iConference 2013, and many of the School’s participants earned special recognition. Assistant Professor Dr. Eric Meyers, Lindsey Krabbenhoft, and Julia McKnight won the “Best of Conference” award for their poster, “Remediating Tinkerbell: Childhood Commodification and the Transmedia Narrative,” and the team consisting of Assistant Professor Dr. Lisa Nathan, Kathleen Gollner, and Tenny Webster won an Honourable Mention in the same category for “The Neighborhood Book Exchange: Community Catalyst or Media Hype?”. Meanwhile, Nick Josten, Jonathan Kift, Allison Trumble, and Brigid Winter were selected to present their work, “The Need for Information Gurus in Online Learning Communities” in the first iConference Social Media Expo (http://iconference.ischools.
For a full list of awards granted at iConference 2013, please see http://iconference.ischools.org/iConference13/awards/.
May 2013 Graduation Deadlines (All Students)
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Last day for graduation applications to be submitted to Enrolment Services by all students expecting to graduate in May. Application is made through the Student Service Centre.
Friday, 19 April 2013
Last day for graduate programs to notify the Faculty of Graduate Studies that all requirements (including major papers) have been met for non-thesis master’s degrees for May graduation
Last day for final master’s theses and doctoral dissertations to be accepted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies for May graduation. Must be approved and accepted by 4:00 pm.
Artona Grad Photos for 2013 SLAIS Grads: Appointments Are Available Until March 31 (All Students)
Artona grad photos for 2013 SLAIS grads: appointments are available until March 31.
Book online here: http://ubc.artona.timetrade.com/
Book now for your preferred time and to make it on the official composite.
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GPS workshop: Managing Projects (All Students)
Registration is now open for:
Managing Projects (Offered in partnership with Mitacs Step)
Thursday, March 7, 2013 9:00am to 5:00pm
For complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/7881-gps-workshopmitacs-step-managing-projects
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2358
Space is still available in this week’s The Essential Intercultural Communication Workshop (Offered in partnership with International House, this case-based interactive workshop for both domestic and international students will cover topics including TAing, working in groups and supervisor/student relationships).
Thursday, February 28th, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
To register, visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2362 .
Registration to present or to volunteer for Three Minute Thesis continues. Please contact graduate.pathways@ubc.ca for more information.
Research Day 2013
The iSchool at UBC will hold its fourth annual Research Day on Friday, March 8th from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the SLAIS suite, fourth floor of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The day will include poster presentations, demonstrations and talks by students and faculty, and a keynote address by Jack Lohman, Chief Executive Officer of the Royal B.C. Museum. This year’s Research Day will highlight interactivity between researchers and attendees, with a “Madness” session wherein each poster presenter will explain their research in two minutes, and a live Twitter feed showcasing attendees’ reactions to the event.
Participants will have the opportunity to share the highlights of their projects as well as engage with their colleagues’ work. Organizers expect it to build on previous years’ Research Days as a unique opportunity to raise awareness of the research that is going on among both faculty and students within and outside of the school. “Research Day is one of the only times to engage with the full component of faculty and students and to see the full diverse range of research that is going on here,” says SLAIS Assistant Professor and Research Day coordinator Dr. Lisa Nathan.
Pausing to think about projects and communicating with peers about research can be a valuable yet overlooked step in the learning process, maintains Nathan. “With so much emphasis on experiential learning, our students sometimes don’t have time for reflection, so we’re trying to emphasize the importance of reflecting on the practice. Research is one strong way to do that.” It is also an opportunity to be exposed to the various approaches taken in information-based research. “As a scholar in training, it’s been valuable to engage with faculty who work with multiple methodologies,” says PhD candidate and Research Day co-organizer Elizabeth Shaffer.
Research Day 2013 also aims to help broaden the scope of how the school defines research, encouraging more submissions from design-oriented projects and continuing to be inclusive of multidisciplinary approaches. This inclusivity can pose a challenge when deciding on a theme, admits Nathan, but this year’s topic promises to offer a fit for the full range of library, archival, children’s literature, and human-information interaction expertise. Entitled “Infrastructures of Knowledge: Mediating Memories, Representing Relationships, Framing Futures”, Research Day 2013’s theme addresses the intersections of people, information, and technology and was largely inspired by the work of Geoffrey C. Bowker, director of the Values in the Design of Information Systems and Technology laboratory at the University of California at Irvine. “I’m hoping [this and future] Research Days will expand beyond the footprint of our school and grow opportunities to collaborate,” says Nathan.
