By Kevin Ho on Mar 04, 2011
The Haunting of Canadian Culture:
From the Ghost of Tom Thompson to the Ghosts of Vimy Ridge
– Professor Sherrill Grace
Professor Grace is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Distinguished University Scholar at UBC. Among her awards are the 2008 Canada Council Killam Prize in Humanities, and the Lorne Pierce Medal for her books about the Canadian North. She has published extensively on Canadian literature, the arts, and culture with over 200 articles and chapters and 23 books including: Canada and the Idea of North, Inventing Tom Tomson, Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock and, most recently, On the Art of Being Canadian. She is currently finishing a book about Canada and the two world wars called Landscapes of Memory, and she is beginning research for a biography of Timothy Findley.
Celebrate Research Week Event:
Saturday, March 5th
8:15 PM – 9:45 PM
UBC Excellence in Research Lecture
Vancouver Institute
Did You Know?
The University Archives holds audio and video tapes of the more recent lectures, which are also listed in cIRcle.
Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of UBC’s Celebrate Research Week and UBC Events.
Above image is courtesy of University Archives.
Read More | No Comments
By Kevin Ho on Mar 03, 2011
Celebrate Research Week comprises a great number of interesting and diverse events, each with their own approach and audience. In 2010, an international conference on Sport and Society was held; corresponding with the Olympic Games and CBC’s Quirks & Quarks Question Show was taped live at the Chan Centre where UBC experts answered the top 10 questions submitted for the Celebrate Research Week Quirks & Quarks Question Challenge.
Core events encompassed by Celebrate Research Week include:
- Celebrate Research Awards Gala
- UBC Excellence in Research Lecture (sponsored by the Vancouver Institute)
- Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC)
Upcoming UBC Library at Celebrate Research Week Workshops include:
- RefWorks for the Sciences
- RefWorks for the Health Sciences
- Noon-hour Refworks
- Writing the Research Paper: Student Workshop
- Get Published – Sources and Resources
- What’s the Impact of Your Research? Tips and Tools for Measuring Usage
- RefWorks for Business Researchers
- Intro to PubMed
- Get Published -Sources and Resources
- Finding and Using Images in ARTstor
Happy Celebrate Research Week everyone!
Did You Know?
The Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies’ Beyond Binaries and Borders symposium held on March 13-14, 2009 was part of UBC’s Celebrate Research Week. Click here to see their Spring/Summer 2009 newsletter in cIRcle.
Above excerpt in italics and image is courtesy of the Celebrate Research Week website.
Read More | No Comments
By Kevin Ho on
The Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) celebrates the contributions of undergraduate scholarly inquiry/research at UBC. Both students who are currently engaged in undergraduate research and students who are interested in getting connected to an undergraduate research experience are encouraged to attend. UBC community members are also welcome to attend this annual celebration of undergraduate scholarly work. The conference is held every year in March, and is strongly linked to UBC’s Celebrate Research Week.
Registration is now underway. Spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Visit the new MURC website here for more details.
Click here to complete the MURC 2011 Registration Form.
WHEN: Saturday, March 19, 2011
WHERE: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC)
COST: Free
Did You Know?
cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository archived previous MURC collections covering 2008 to 2010? You can view them here.
Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of the Learning Commons website and above image is courtesy of Flickr: UBC Library’s Photostream.
Read More | No Comments
By Kevin Ho on Feb 28, 2011
On 2 March 2011, Ingrid Parent, UBC’s University Librarian, will present the above colloquium at the UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) Colloquia for Spring 2011.
Abstract: In today’s changing information society, knowledge curation is in demand, information literacy is essential, and those entering the workforce must be ready to demonstrate new competencies. No doubt, the library is a force of change, contributing to and accelerating the ever growing needs of e-research. Yet libraries can do more. Libraries need to shift their paradigm from “They will come” to “We will go to them” and in doing so, be prepared to explore new methods of outreach and community engagement at a local level and beyond. How do we, as librarians and information professionals, meet these demands? What trends are libraries currently facing that will impact future generations of information professionals? This presentation will address these key issues and offer a review of libraries and librarianship in a global context.
Date: March 2, 2011
Time: 12-1pm
Location: Dodson Room, Room 302 in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC Point Grey Campus
This colloquium will be webcast through the generous sponsorship of the I.K. Barber Learning Centre.
For more information, please contact Eric Meyers (eric.meyers@ubc.ca) or Aaron Loehrlein (a.loe@ubc.ca).
Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of SLAIS and above image is courtesy of Flickr: UBC Library’s Photostream.
/
Read More | No Comments
By Kevin Ho on Feb 21, 2011
Dear users – UBC Library is proud to present Summon, your new one-stop search tool.
Summon provides fast, relevance-ranked results on any topic from UBC Library’s collections in a single search. It will let you search the full range of UBC Library’s vast holdings – including books, journals, articles, newspapers, government publications, maps, data, conference proceedings, course materials and more – all in one place.
The launch of Summon underlines a key goal of UBC’s strategic plan: “Enhance and integrate access to print and digital collections to make them easier to find.”
This new discovery tool will make your search efforts quicker and better. Send your comments and questions to lib.summonfeedback@exchange.ubc.ca.
Happy searching!
Did You Know?
It includes open access resources such as cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository and the Library’s digital image collections and more for your research needs. You can find more information on Summon here.
Above excerpt in italics courtesy of Glenn Drexhage, Communications & Marketing Officer, IKBLC
Above image is courtesy of Erin Watkins
Read More | No Comments
