By Kevin Ho on Sep 11, 2013
On September 18, the University of British Columbia will suspend its classes to enable the students and faculty and its UBC community members to participate in an historic national event – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). The TRC was established in 2008 to gather testimony on survivors’ experiences of the Indian Residential Schools which operated in Canada from 1875-1996.
Learn more about the TRC and events at UBC and around Vancouver by visiting the Indian Residential School Initiative / ourtruth website at: http://irsi.aboriginal.ubc.ca/. Watch the short “Our Truth UBC – September 18” video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjXM5SSzJ-s&feature=youtu.be.
Explore the Library’s “Indian Residential Schools in Canada” online research guide at: http://guides.library.ubc.ca/irss?hs=a.
Visit the special TRC exhibit at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre by the Museum of Anthropology, the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, Xwi7xwa Library, the First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations Language Program, Musqueam Indian Band (Language and Culture Department) – runs from September 17 to October 31.
Visit the Library’s TRC displays and exhibits at these UBC campus locations: Education Library, Koerner Library, and Asian Library – see their “Hours & Locations” listed at: http://hours.library.ubc.ca/.
Did You Know?
The Xwi7xwa Library has a community with growing collections in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. Find various one-of-a-kind scholarly research items such as First Nations community and experiences, Indigenous education and much more. Visit the Xwi7xwa Library collections in cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/29911.
Above image is courtesy of UBC’s Indian Residential School Initiative / ourtruth website
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By Kevin Ho on Jul 11, 2013
UBC “supports scholarly pursuits that contribute to knowledge and understanding within and across disciplines, and seeks every opportunity to share them broadly.” – From UBC’s Place and Promise
Wondering why it’s good to use open resources and why they’re helpful to you and others when sharing or creating open resources? Learn more through the Open UBC website – open.ubc.ca – such as:
Open access is a growing international movement that uses online technologies to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. Open access projects at UBC are embracing and encouraging unrestricted access to research and scholarly publishing. Explore featured projects such as Open UBC Week, cIRcle, Open Access Journal Hosting, Scholarly Communications at UBC, Transcription Factor Encyclopedia (TFe), the Public Knowledge Project and more.
UBC supports open publishing platforms that are especially well suited to educators, researchers, and scholars. Anyone at UBC is one click away from contributing to UBC’s wiki, creating an open access journal, publishing a research blog or website, or building a professional e-portfolio or community website. Discover these open publishing platforms such as cIRcle, UBC Wiki, UBC Blogs, Open e-Portfolios and others.
Read and/or watch previous Open UBC (Open Access Week) events at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/2689 via cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository.
Above image courtesy of UBC Library
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By Kevin Ho on Jul 02, 2013
“E-books are becoming an increasingly important part of academic library collections. According to a 2011 report from the American Library Association,1 e-books currently represent 27% of holdings in academic libraries and the numbers have been steadily increasing for years.2
Despite this growing importance, providing catalogue access to e-books has always been a challenge for libraries. Traditional library catalogues are based on print collections and do not easily accommodate newer formats”.
With the rise of e-books in academic libraries, you don’t want to miss reading this conference paper written by Eugene Barsky, a Science and Engineering Librarian at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and his following co-authors: Sarah Jane Dooley (Dalhousie University), Tara Mawhinney (McGill University), Zoey Peterson (UBC) and Michelle Spence (University of Toronto). View and/or download it via cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44618.
Did You Know?
The Science and Engineering Library at the University of British Columbia (UBC) serves more than 12,000 students, faculty and staff in the Faculty of Applied Science and Faculty of Science in UBC. Visit their ever-growing cIRcle communities (and collections) in cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/286 (Faculty of Applied Science) and https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/338 (Faculty of Science).
Image Courtesy of ASEE PRISM website: http://www.prism-magazine.org/feb13/annual-03.cfm
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By Kevin Ho on May 17, 2013
From left to right, you see Robert DeAbreu (winner), Colúm Connolly, VP Academic and External Affairs, Graduate Student Society and Donnard MacKenzie (winner).
Congratulations to the winners of the 2013 GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award! One winner has many accomplishments both in acting and producing as well as research in creative writing while the other winner focuses on mathematics education local and abroad via interdisciplinary research.
Not only is Donnard MacKenzie a Simon Fraser University graduate of the National Voice Intensive program and holds a BFA from the University of Victoria, he is currently in pursuit of an interdisciplinary PhD program at UBC in Narrative and Drama Studies. He won the 2013 GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award for his manuscript, “Thomas At Mile Zero” at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44090. He also has other works archived in cIRcle.
Robert DeAbreu has been “teaching mathematics in middle school and high schools internationally since August 2003, and [has] taught in Antigua, Ghana, Vietnam, and Korea. This experience has afforded [him] a wonderful opportunity to learn in so many different ways inside and outside the classroom”. He won the 2013 GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award for a winning paper written for an educational leadership course. Like Donnard M., Robert D. has other works archived in the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award collection at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/42591.
Stay tuned to read their comments after winning this Award in the upcoming issue of UBC Library’s Community Report due out soon!
Did You Know?
The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award aims to feature UBC as a leader in the open dissemination of graduate non-thesis coursework projects or manuscripts subject to instructor approval. This award is a joint collaboration between cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository and the UBC Vancouver Graduate Student Society (GSS). Find out if you are eligible to win next time by visiting: https://circle.sites.olt.ubc.ca/gss-graduate-student-society-open-scholar-award/.
Above photo is courtesy of Glenn Drexhage, UBC Library
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By Kevin Ho on May 09, 2013
Not only have the newly added GEOG 419 and GEOG 429 research reports (with the latter showcasing research in historical geography) been made accessible in cIRcle (UBC’s Digital Repository), they arrived just in time to add to your summer reading list!
Explore and learn about the daily life of a north coast Japanese-Canadian fisherman; the history of women in botany at the UBC Herbarium; the Camosun Bog Restoration Group; a view of post-war commercial photographers; and, the working experience at the North Pacific Cannery. Plus, enjoy these historical walking tours – the Seymour watershed, the town of Steveston, B.C.; and, a close-up look at Vancouver during the First World War.
Visit these two UBC Geography student collections in cIRcle at:
GEOG 419: Research in Environmental Geography – https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/34125
GEOG 429: Research in Historical Geography – https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/44377
Did You Know?
In the UBC Geography cIRcle community, the top title in the “Top 10 Item Page Displays + File Downloads (from this Community) for all Time” list is, “How will the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline affect the distribution of jobs nation-wide?” (2012) by Christine Ratcliffe.
Above image is courtesy of the UBC Geographer website
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