Congratulations to Master of Arts in Children’s Literature candidate Sae Yong Kim, who has successfully defended her thesis, “An Analysis of a Selection of English-Language Korean Folktale Picture Books.” In her study, Sae Yong draws from the fields of folktale and fairy tale studies, Korean studies, and translation studies to examine the changes that are made to Korean folktales when they are retold in English and published in North America in the form of picture books. The thesis was supervised by SLAIS faculty member Professor Judith Saltman, who is the chair of the MACL program; also on the committee was Margot Filipenko of the UBC Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Faculty of Education.
Professor Lemieux Publishes New Book on Finance and Risk
The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, the iSchool at The University of British Columbia, is pleased to announce the publication of a new book edited by faculty member Dr. Victoria Lemieux. Financial Analysis and Risk Management: Data Governance, Analytics and Life Cycle Management (Springer 2012) brings together researchers in distinct domains that seldom interact to identify theoretical, technological, policy and practical issues related to the management of financial records, information and data. Collectively, the work draws attention to weaknesses in financial records, information and data related to the 2008 global financial crisis, noting that these weaknesses have led to operational risks in financial institutions, flawed bankruptcy and foreclosure proceedings following the crisis, and inadequacies in financial supervisors’ access to information needed for effective financial analysis and risk management.
GPS January Schedule (All Students)
The following workshops and information sessions will take place in January 2013. Registration for each session will open the Monday prior to the session, unless noted.
Thursday, January 10th: Resume and Cover Letter Clinic (registration opens Wednesday, Jan 2nd)
Thursday, January 10th: New Graduate Student Orientation (Information available at orientation.grad.ubc.ca; Registration now open at https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g208c )
Wednesday, January 16th: Job Search Clinic
Thursday, January 17th: Perfectionism
Monday, January 21st: Managing Effective Collaborative Research Teams
Wednesday, January 23rd: Time Mangement
Wednesday, January 23rd: 3MT coaching session
Wednesday, January 23rd: Communicating for a General Audience
Thursday, January 24th: Submitting your Thesis
Thursday, January 24th: Preparing for your Doctoral Exam
Thursday, January 24th: Copyright for your Thesis
Tuesday, January 29th: 3MT coaching session (face-to-face + via webinar)
Tuesday, January 29th: Time Management (via webinar)
Tuesday, January 30th: Practice your Presentation Skills
For complete details for each session visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events . All sessions will be posted by Friday of this week!
BC on Comics and the Multimodal World (MLIS, Dual, MACL)
Topic areas include:
– Comics and Internationalism
– Comics and Digital Culture
– Multimodal Narrative and First Nations/Aboriginal Cultures
– Comics, Information Design, and Alternative Literacies
More information provided through the website below http://www.thedclab.org/conference/
NASIG 2013 Grants, Awards, and Scholarships Open For Applicants (All Students)
The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) is pleased to announce the beginning of the application cycle for its 2013 grants, awards, and scholarships to be awarded at the 2013 Annual Conference being held in Buffalo, New York, June 6-9, 2013. Established in 1985, NASIG is an international organization committed to promoting communication and sharing of ideas among all people working with or concerned about serial publications. More information about NASIG is available at http://www.nasig.org
John Riddick Student Grant
Grants for qualifying students to attend the NASIG annual conference, covering cost of registration, three nights lodging, and travel within North America.
For more details, please visit the following page:
http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_studentgrant.cfm
Serials Specialist Award
Awards for promising paraprofessionals, covering cost of conference registration, three nights lodging, and travel within North America.
For more details, please visit the following page:
http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_specialist.cfm
Marcia Tuttle International Award
A $3,000 grant for an individual working in the serials information chain to fund appropriate activities in fostering international communication and education.
For more details, please visit the following page:
http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_tuttle.cfm
Horizon Award
Awards for promising new serials professionals, covering cost of conference registration, three nights lodging, and travel within North America. Recipients will also be invited to serve on a NASIG committee.
For more details, please visit the following page:
http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_horizon.cfm
Fritz Schwartz Education Scholarship
A $3,000 scholarship and conference travel grant for a graduate student demonstrating excellence in scholarship and the potential for accomplishments in a serials career.
For more details, please visit the following page:
http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_schwartz.cfm
Rose Robischon Scholarship
A scholarship awarded to a serials professional lacking funds for travel. The scholarship covers the cost of conference registration, three nights lodging, and travel within North America.
For more details, please visit the following page:
http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_robischon2.cfm
John Merriman Joint NASIG/UKSG Award
UK delegate sponsored by Taylor & Francis
A $6,000 award supports two people, one from each association, and consists of travel to the sister conference, and accommodations for the duration of the conference. The purpose of this conference-swap is for people working at a practical level in e-resource management to learn and share experience at the UKSG and NASIG annual conferences.
For more details, please visit the following page:
http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_merriman.cfm
The application deadline for the above-listed awards, except the John Merriman Joint NASIG/UKSG Award, is February 20, 2013; the deadline for the John Merriman Award is February 1, 2013. For details about the awards offered by NASIG, please visit http://www.nasig.org/about_awards.cfm
Award For MACL Student (All Students)
Manuscript for a children’s novel written by MACL student Laura Quintana Crellis has won honourable mention in the 2012 Latin American Literature Prize for Children, a contest organized by the Latin American Academy and the Peruvian Academy of Literature for Children and Youth.
Student Article Published in CLA Journal Feliciter (MLIS, Dual)
Sabrina Wong, MLIS, has published an article, “Shared Print, Shared Knowledge,” in the CLA journal Feliciter (December 2012)
GPS Events This Week – December 4 to 6 (All Students)
There is still space available for this week’s Thursday workshop by the Office of Research Ethics:
Human Research Ethics for Behavioural and Social Sciences
Thursday, December 6, 2012 – 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Through an overview of the evolution of international and national ethics codes and guidelines, ethical principles and hands-on case studies, participants will have the opportunity to discuss the distinctive ethical issues raised by social science and behavioural research and how to navigate them…for full details, visit http://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/7670-gpsore-event-human-research-ethics-behavioural-social-sciences
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2056
For upcoming GPS workshops see http://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events .
For other graduates student events on campus, check out: http://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/ubc-graduate-student-events#events . For December, there are 3 remaining thesis formatting workshops as well as Zotero, RefWorks and Mendeley citation management sessions. Of special note are:
Careers in Student Affairs http://www.calendar.events.ubc.ca/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo;jsessionid=55A339C1AD6F7AB12E658B3AA535F23B
When: Monday December 3 from 3:00pm-4:30pm
Where: Dodson Room, Chapman Learning Commons (IKBLC)
Scholar, Blogger, Tweeter, Author: Building Your Academic Profile
December 4, 2012, 1:00 – 4:00 pm http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3422
Published In Winter 2013 BCLA Children’s and Young Adult YAACING Newsletter (MLIS, Dual)
Congratulations to SLAIS student Elizabeth Bell, Lindsey Krabbenhoft, Megan Harris, Dana Horrocks and Stephanie Gauvin, who have had SLAIS assignments for different classes published in the Winter 2013 BCLA children’s and young adult section newsletter, YAACING.
Award of SLAIS Doctoral Travel Funding
Congratulations to the following SLAIS doctoral students who have been awarded travel funds for past or pending conferences which fall in the current funding year (July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013).
They are (in order of conferences):
Sherry Xie (presented at ICA in Australia in August, 2012)
Donald Force (presented at ARMA in Chicago in September, 2012)
Evelyn Markwei (will be presenting at ALISE in Seattle in January, 2013)
Corinne Rogers (will be presenting at the iConference in Fort Worth in February, 2013)
Elaine Goh (applying for a space at AERI in Austin, TX in June, 2013)
Elizabeth Shaffer (applying for a space at AERI in Austin, TX in June, 2013)
The awards were announced by Edie Rasmussen, chair of the Doctoral Studies Committee. Congratulations to these SLAIS doctoral students who are hard at work, presenting their work at international conferences.
