By Kevin Ho on Nov 07, 2012
Have you read the recent article by Lorraine Chan and Linda Ong, entitled “A university library for the 21st century”? The featured article was an interview with University Librarian Ingrid Parent and can be found in the November 1 issue of UBC Reports at: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2012/11/01/a-university-library-for-the-21st-century/.
“Academic libraries worldwide are facing rapid technological change and seismic shifts in how users access information and create knowledge in the digital age. Old models are no longer sustainable. Libraries must re-think the future.”
Read the rest of the article by visiting the UBC Public Affairs’ website at: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2012/11/01/a-university-library-for-the-21st-century/
Also, take a look at the “Leading an academic library in the digital age” video found on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvoE3Ia21ME&feature=plcp.
Did you know?
The Director of Digital Initiatives at UBC Library is Alan Bell. He was interviewed for the BCLA Browser: Linking the Library Landscape journal in 2011. You can read more about his profile in cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31139.
Above partial excerpt in italics is courtesy of the UBC Public Affairs’ website
Above image is courtesy of UBC Library
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By Kevin Ho on Oct 25, 2012
Open UBC is held in conjunction with the International Open Access Week, which encourages the academic community to come together to share and learn about open scholarship initiatives locally and worldwide. Two days of diverse events will highlight areas of open scholarship that UBC’s researchers, faculty, students and staff will participate in as well as guests from the global community.
Themes will include: open education, open research, open access in the arts, open science, open data, and altmetrics (alternative metrics). All of these events are FREE and open to the public, students, faculty, staff and schools. This year’s Open UBC events will be held October 31 to November 1, 2012, in conjunction with UBC’s Celebrate Learning Week. All sessions will be held in the Lillooet Room (301), of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC unless otherwise stated.
Full schedule of Open UBC events at: http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/events/oaweek/schedule-at-a-glance-2012/.
Did you know?
Open UBC (formerly “Open Access Week” – OAW) events are archived in cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/2689. Past event topics included “Canadian research libraries”, “Creative Commons licenses”, “Electronic archiving”, “Electronic publishing”, “[the] Public Knowledge Project”, “Research grant agencies”, “[Author] Rights retention”, “Scholarly communication”, “University-based research” and more.
Above images are courtesy of Jessica Woolman, Web Communications Coordinator, Communications & Marketing Office, UBC Library
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By Kevin Ho on Oct 24, 2012
With much anticipated excitement since its launch in July 2012, the new GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award was presented to the inaugural winners on October 18 by the GSS Council. The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award ‘aims are to feature UBC as a leader in the open dissemination of exemplary non-thesis graduate coursework; and to create an incentive for graduate students to populate cIRcle with material beyond theses and dissertations.’ It is ‘a lottery-style award worth $500’ with the ‘knowledge that the winning work is made publicly available and administered on a long-term basis by UBC Library’.
Congratulations to the two Master of Physical Therapy (MPT) systematic reviews and research project groups in PHTH 572!
The award winners are:
Lisa Cornish, Victoria Feige, Adriana Guenter, Christina Kliewer and Emily Mellis — MPT group project in cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43229
Jennifer Gonsalves, Evin Kuyer, Tamara McKay, Amy Moffat and Stephanie Palmer — MPT group project in cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42941
Want to learn more about the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award?
Visit cIRcle at: https://circle.sites.olt.ubc.ca/gss-graduate-student-society-open-scholar-award/
Or, attend the “Open Scholar Awards at UBC: Increase the impact of your research” session at Open UBC 2012 next week! See more details about Open UBC 2012 at: http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/events/oaweek/
Did You Know?
In cIRcle, the most-downloaded MPT project is titled, “Pain-enduring Eccentric Exercise for the Treatment of Chronic Achilles Tendinopathy”. To find out more information about this project, visit cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/89.
Above partial excerpt in italics and image are courtesy of the UBC Library website at: http://about.library.ubc.ca/2012/10/24/winners-of-gss-circle-open-scholar-award-announced/
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By Kevin Ho on Oct 23, 2012
Who will be the next Innovative Dissemination of Research Award winner for 2013? Nominations are now open and the application deadline is on Monday, November 26, 2012 by 5pm.
In its third year, this award (established by the UBC Library in 2010) focuses on new and innovative ways of communicating and disseminating knowledge. It honours UBC faculty, staff and students who are employing innovative approaches to research dissemination through the creative use of new tools and technologies.
The award winner will be formally recognized at the annual Celebrate Research Week gala held in March. The award includes a $2,000 cash prize and a framed certificate.
Could this year’s Innovative Dissemination of Research Award be presented to you or someone you know?
Visit the Scholarly Communications @ UBC website to learn more about the award eligibility criteria, past award winners and honourable mentions at: http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/award/. And, visit cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/33850 to see which previous award honourable mention has collectively received 600+ views to date.
Did You Know?
The 2012 Innovative Dissemination of Research Award winner (Dr. Daniel Pauly and his team for The Sea Around Us Project) is one of the keynote speakers showcasing their work at the Open UBC event on Thursday, November 1st at 1pm. Open UBC events are FREE and open to the public, students, faculty, staff and schools. Learn more about Open UBC at: http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/events/oaweek/.
Above image is courtesy of UBC Library’s Photostream on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubclibrary/4093904130/in/set-72157594487219892.
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By Kevin Ho on Oct 22, 2012
The WCILCOS (World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries in Chinese Overseas Studies) is a federation established by participating institutes and libraries in a Chinese Overseas Studies conference in Athens, Ohio, in 2000, to facilitate co-operation between scholarship and documentation, and between institutes, libraries, and archives in different parts of the world. Registered in Ohio, it is non-profit and non-political. No membership dues are collected. Since the inception of WCILCOS in 2000, the Dr. You-Bao Shao Overseas Chinese Documentation Center has served as its secretariat, and devoting its resources to the Confederation’s goals and visions.
The WCILCOS conference was held May 16-19, 2012 at the University of British Columbia’s Point Grey campus with 150+ international delegates in attendance.
It was the ‘first time UBC has been invited to host the WCILCOS Conference, and the first time it has been hosted in Canada. Eleanor Yuen, Head of UBC’s Asian Library, has helped organize WCILCOS conferences since 2003’.
We hope you will take a few minutes to peruse the new WCILCOS conference papers collection in cIRcle at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/43391.
Did You Know?
An electronic copy of the Register of Chinese Immigrants to Canada was preserved at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) in Ottawa. It was created between 2005 and 2008 as part of a research project on immigration from China to Canada directed by Professors Peter Ward and Henry Yu of the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. See this popular cIRcle item which has had 500+ views in the History Faculty Research collection at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/36347.
Above excerpt in bold italics is taken from the WCILCOS (World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries in Chinese Overseas Studies) conference handbook
Above partial excerpt in italics and image are courtesy of the UBC Library website at: http://about.library.ubc.ca/2012/05/15/ubc-library-welcomes-wcilcos-2012/.
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