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Now available in cIRcle

By Kevin Ho on Jun 16, 2011

Some recent undergraduate papers from the GEOG 419 course have been added to cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository!

“Given the diverse nature of geography, our teaching and research are inherently interdisciplinary and we seek to integrate the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. We offer courses in a wide range of geographical specializations at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These extend from postcolonial perspectives to process-oriented scientific inquiry including GIS for spatial analysis and modelling.”

To catch a glimpse of Geography’s undergraduate students by the numbers for the 2010/2011 academic year, see the undergraduate statistics as seen in Geography’s recent newsletter:

Human Geography – Majors: 231 / Honours: 15 / Minors: 15 /

Environment and Sustainability – Majors: 156 /

Physical Geography – Majors: 47 /

Music and Geography – Double Major: 1 /

Did You Know?

Currently, there are about 540 geography theses and dissertations in cIRcle. To find them, go to the Advanced Search screen in cIRcle and select ‘Program ETD’ from the drop-down menu under ‘Search type’ and then type ‘Geography’ into the ‘Search for’ box.

Above excerpt in italics, statistics and image are courtesy of the UBC Geography departmental website

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New Director of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

By Kevin Ho on Jun 09, 2011

“Simon Neame has been selected as the new Director of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Simon began his library career after obtaining a Master of Library and Information Studies from the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at UBC.”

“The Director’s mandate is to provide strategic leadership for community engagement initiatives on and off campus, along with directing the Learning Centre’s physical facility, and its programs and services for students.”

You can read more by visiting the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre website.

Did You Know?

In harmony with the Director’s mandate for the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, there is a growing collection of IKBLC multimedia items in cIRcle. These items are podcasts and webcasts of local and international guest speakers who presented timely research topics and issues to the UBC community and the general public. So far, some of the Top Country Views of the IKBLC Multimedia collection in cIRcle have been from:

Algeria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Korea, Morocco, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States of America

Above excerpt in italics and image are courtesy of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre website

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Graduation time at UBC

By Kevin Ho on May 29, 2011

With the congregation ceremonies in full swing, it is an exciting time of year for UBC graduates, their families and fellow UBC colleagues along with the UBC community and other well-wishers.

A few congregation facts include:

@ In 1916, there were 41 graduates at UBC’s first Congregation ceremony held at the Hotel Vancouver

@ From 1919 to 1923, the first degrees were conferred in Agriculture, Applied Science in Nursing, and Forestry

@ Currently, there are 12 UBC faculties issuing degrees: Applied Science, Arts, Commerce and Business Administration, Dentistry, Education, Forestry, Graduate Studies, Land and Food Systems, Law, Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Science.

@ You can view UBC Congregation Ceremonies online at: http://www.graduation.ubc.ca/ubc-vancouver/live-webcast/

So, take a few minutes to celebrate some of UBC’s graduate students’ scholarly research and intellectual output – from across a variety of disciplines – via cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository.

Did You Know?

To date, there are almost 60 community and regional planning projects in the SCARP Graduating Projects collection in cIRcle. The projects cover many topics such as capacity building, healthy cities, participatory governance, primary schooling, transit planning, urban design, and more.

Above partial excerpt in italics and image are courtesy of the Graduation at UBC website

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Maximizing your research impact

By Kevin Ho on May 26, 2011

Would you like to have your academic work searched by Google Scholar or have your work archived in the UBC Library?

Be sure to check out the next cIRcle information session as part of the UBC Graduate & Undergraduate Student Workshop Series‘ events offered by UBC Library. The next cIRcle workshop is happening tomorrow at 3pm in Scarfe 155 which is located inside the Education Library (Neville Scarfe Building).

You will learn about cIRcle, what it contains, how you can contribute and what permissions are required to submit your presentations, articles and reports. This session will be facilitated by Jo-Anne Naslund.

To register, please click here.

Above image courtesy of: Flickr: UBC Library’s Photostream

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On your mark, get set for Open UBC

By Kevin Ho on May 10, 2011

Open Access Week @ UBC 2011 will be happening at UBC on October 24-30, 2011!

Open UBC is held in conjunction with International Open Access Week, which encourages the academic community to come together to share and learn about open scholarship initiatives locally and worldwide.

Open UBC showcases a week of diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s researchers, faculty, students and staff participate in. These events include discussion forums, lectures, seminars, workshops, and symposia on topical and timely issues from every discipline. We invite everyone to participate either by organizing events, highlighting events already coinciding with the Week, or attending the events to be scheduled.

All of these events are FREE and open to the public, students, faculty, staff and schools.

With an open “Call for Participation”, this is your opportunity to get involved and share your scholarly research and/or tools with fellow UBC researchers, faculty, students, staff and the public.

Did You Know?

Previous Open Access Week @ UBC event presentations are archived in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. A variety of topics included open research data, scholarly rights and responsibilities, open source software, and open access journal publishing. Browse these topics and more within the Library Events collection in cIRcle.

Above image and excerpt in italics are courtesy of the Scholarly Communications @UBC website

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