By hshand on Oct 17, 2012
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS 13 November 2012, 2 to 4pm
UBC Research Commons invites you to submit your abstracts for 5 minute presentations on research methodology.
Using the appropriate methodological design for your research question is one of the most critical components for advancing academic inquiry. The objective of this event is to explore multiple approaches to research. The Research Commons at Koerner Library invites you to a FIREtalk focusing on methodological discourse and compatibility. Multiple short presentations centering on research design will provide a diverse sampling of method selection, meta-analysis strategies, mixed methods designs, and interdisciplinary perspectives on approaches to research.
To submit your proposal, go to: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/fire-talks/proposal-submission-form/ and follow the instructions. Abstracts should be submitted no later than 4pm on 30 October 2012.
For more information, contact us at research.commons@ubc.ca or check out our website at http://researchcommons.library.ubc.ca
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By debralem on Oct 16, 2012
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 attend in person. The talk will be given 4-5 p.m. (PT). Those who can attend in person are asked to RSVP to Vancouver@wcanada.sla.org . If you can attend in person please plan to join us (and Brent) for drinks and appetizers at a local establishment.
Those who wish to view the talk remotely as a webinar are asked to register in advance at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/124767129. You will need a web browser, speakers (or a phone) to be able to listen in; test your connection here: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/join/406552062 (Mac users will have to install an application).
Looking forward to ‘seeing’ you on the 24th.
Richard Matiachuk
President, SLA WCC
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By hshand on Oct 16, 2012
Registration is now open for the Instructional Skills Workshop November 16, 17, 18, 2012. Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop.
The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation. It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence. It is appropriate for first time teachers or those with years of experience. Join the thousands of students who have taken this workshop.
This workshop is always in high demand. To see the 2012-2013 dates, or to register for the November ISW, please go to: http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/series/view/5
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By debralem on Oct 16, 2012
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 Tuesday evening’s Leadership Dialogue. For a complete session description or to register, please see http://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/7747-leaders-dialogue-series-making-difference-good .
Registration is now open for:
Resume Clinic
Tuesday, October 23rd, 12:00 – 1:30 PMFor a complete session description, see http://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/7713-gpscareer-services-event-resume-cover-letter-clinic .
To register, please visit https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g1eb7 .
Overview of Career Planning
Thursday, October 25th, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PMFor a complete session description, see http://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/7722-gps-career-services-workshop-overview-career-planning .
To register, please visit https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g1eb8
Interested in learning more? The UBC Centre for Student Involvement & Careers is now offering weekly seminars for graduate students called “Exploring Career Options with Your Graduate Degree”, Wednesdays from 3:30 – 5:00 PM. These sessions are for graduate students interested in exploring career options, discussing effective job search strategies, and articulating career skills, experiences and values to the employer community. For more information or to register, visit: http://www.students.ubc.ca/careers/students/events/?month=October&year=2012
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By debralem on Oct 16, 2012
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 Digital Collections as Creative Expression.”
Dr. Feinberg will describe her continuing project to examine how personal digital collections, such as Pinterest boards, Amazon wishlists, and GoodReads shelves, work as manifestations of creative curatorship, and how best to support the design of such expressive personal collections. Initial work took a humanities-oriented approach to propose a set of expressive characteristics–an eclectic purpose, a unique authorial voice, and emotional intimacy–that enable personal digital collections to achieve what Umberto Eco describes as “the poetry of lists.” A subsequent user study suggested that the design space of personal digital collections includes multiple document genres that make use of the same form: collections that serve as personal information management tools, for example, coexist in the same systems with collections oriented toward public expression in the same environment. A second user study illuminated the notion of framing devices in facilitating a design reorientation to the genre of public expression, as opposed to personal information management. These findings contribute to our understanding of personal digital collections as expressive media and to the design of authoring environments for expression-oriented collections.
Melanie Feinberg is an assistant professor at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research considers collections as a form of creative expression, and the means by which collections apply an interpretive frame to the resources that they gather, enacting a particular viewpoint onto their contents. She received her PhD from the University of Washington, a MIMS from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BA from Stanford University.
The talk will be given in the Dodson Room, in the Chapman Learning Commons of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC.
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By hshand on Oct 15, 2012
Are you interested in undertaking a 3-credit LIBR 597 Research Collaboration course (under the supervision of SLAIS faculty member, Dr. Lisa Nathan) in 2012 Winter Term 2? We will complete a literature review and document archival and museum collections from available online information in order to prepare for a project comparing curatorial practices in indigenous cultural institutions with practices in non-indigenous cultural institutions (in the domain of the Seminole peoples of Florida). Your work will become part of a publication when completed.
Please contact:
Jodine Perkins, MA/MLS, jodmperk@indiana.edu
PhD Candidate, Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Adjunct Professor, UBC SLAIS
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By hshand on Oct 15, 2012
Proposals are currently being invited for the 2013 Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference, to be held June 13-15, 2013 at The University of Southern Mississippi in Biloxi.
The 40th Annual Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) Conference will address play and risk in children’s and young adult (YA) literature and culture. Much of John Newbery’s A Pretty Little Pocket-Book, one of the first books to mark the emergence of children’s literature as a successful commercial enterprise, is devoted to teaching the alphabet through play and games. Innovators of children’s literature have taken risks in building businesses or careers around the notion of pleasurable works for children, just as the scholars who gathered for the first ChLA convention in 1974 and those who followed have taken risks to establish the professional study of the “Great Excluded.” Thus, from its beginnings as both a literary and scholarly enterprise, children’s literature has been linked with play and risk. Many classic and contemporary works for young people represent children or young adults entertaining themselves or taking chances: the March sisters put on plays in Little Women, and Beth risks her own life to care for the Hummel baby; Alice plays croquet in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and risks losing her head; Peter and Wendy play house in Peter Pan and risk being killed or kidnapped by Captain Hook. Play and risk are everywhere in children’s and YA literature and culture.
The 2013 ChLA Conference call for papers online submission site is now open at www.usm.edu/chla2013.
We invite paper or panel proposals on the following topics:
- play and games in children’s and YA literature and culture
- children’s games as texts
- children’s theatre and drama or school plays
- linguistic, stylistic, or formal play in children’s and YA literature
- game theory or risk theory and children’s and YA literature and culture
- role-play, performance, or performativity in children’s and YA literature and culture
- childhood/adolescence as play, playing at childhood/adolescence
- video games and/as children’s and YA literature
- sports or competition in children’s and YA literature and culture
- winning and losing in children’s and YA literature and culture
- risk-taking in children’s and YA literature and culture
- uncertainty or chance in children’s and YA literature and culture
- the personal or professional risks of studying, writing, or reading children’s and YA literature
- the discourse of “at risk” youth
- how children’s and YA literature or culture put children at risk
- the risks of how children and childhood are constructed or experienced
- playing with race, class, gender, or sexuality in children’s and YA literature and culture
Abstracts of 300 to 500 words will be accepted by the selection committee until January 15, 2013. Please submit your proposal online at www.usm.edu/chla2013.
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By debralem on Oct 15, 2012
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 rather than later. If you are on any term 2 wait lists that you do not want, please drop those as well.
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By debralem on Oct 15, 2012
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 from over 48, 000 BC students, teachers, parents, government officials, and volunteers.
This year’s event is on Monday, October 22 from 11:00-11:30. It is our hope that both patrons and employees of public libraries will join us!
Official t-shirt and poster information is available at http://dropeverythingandreadbc.ca/. You can also follow us on Twitter (@BCTLA_DEAR) and find us on Facebook (DROP Everything and READ).
Thank you, in advance, for your support of school libraries, teacher-librarians, and the joy of reading!
Warmest regards,
Jeff Yasinchuk
VP Advocacy
BCTLA
@jyasinchuk
@BCTLA_DEAR
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By debralem on Oct 12, 2012
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 list, compiled by the American Library Association. Click to watch the video created by students from ALA@UBC.
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