By Kevin Ho on Apr 21, 2011
One of the honourable mention submissions for the UBC Library’s 2011 Innovative Dissemination of Research Award competition is now available in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository!
Some quick facts about this community-based collaborative research project include:
- Raises awareness about pesticide safety in BC’s Lower Mainland farming communities
- Demonstrates how to safely launder pesticide-contaminated clothing via Public Service Announcement (PSA) videos
- Features specially-choreographed bhangra dance and well-known Punjabi actors to disseminate the Wash With Care Project message
- Includes text-based resources (in English and Punjabi) for laundry instructions
- Research team are researchers from Simon Fraser University, the University of the Fraser Valley, and the University of British Columbia
To view the Wash With Care Project videos, be sure to check out these resources in cIRcle at:
Wash With Care: Laundry Instructions
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33873
Wash With Care: Public Service Announcement
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33872
To learn more about the UBC Library Innovative Dissemination of Research Award, visit the Scholarly Communications @ UBC website at: http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/events-awards/award/
Above image and partial excerpt are courtesy of the Wash With Care Project website
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By Kevin Ho on Apr 14, 2011
In case you missed it, Eugene Barsky won the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE, Engineering Libraries Division) Award last week. The certificate will be awarded in June at the ASEE Conference and Exposition.
As one of the Science & Engineering Librarians at UBC Library, Eugene spearheaded the collaboration between UBC Library and the British Columbia Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation. The objective? To digitize and make openly available over 30 years of mine reclamation information.
This digitization project provides free, open access to more than 600 BC Mining Reclamation symposia proceedings – covering mines from around the globe, including Canada – hosted on cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository.
Did You Know?
The British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium proceedings were featured in the Northern Miner newspaper and on the UBC Library News blog. This collection has been viewed and downloaded hundreds of times, mainly by users in the U.S. and Canada, but also by those from the U.K., Portugal, China, India, Finland and Norway.
Above image is courtesy of PABC Physio Info-blog
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By Kevin Ho on Apr 07, 2011
Recently, Chris Hives (University Archivist at the University of British Columbia) was “pleased to report that the Retrospective Theses collection in cIRcle [UBC’s Digital Repository] now includes full text copies of essentially all theses written at UBC between 1973 and 2007. This represents over 25,500 titles and approximately 4.24 million digitized pages.” As the final phase of this historical project gets underway, it will mean approximately “6,500 more titles [will be added] to the repository”. This project is likely to be completed by the end of 2011.
Find out more information about the UBC Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Digitization Project and its progress.
To browse some of the latest titles, visit the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) 2008+ collection in cIRcle.
To browse some of the historical titles visit the Retrospective Theses and Dissertations collection in cIRcle.
Above partial excerpt is courtesy of Chris Hives, University Archivist in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Above image is courtesy of UBC Library’s University Archives website.
Did You Know?
The first 100 UBC theses are also available in cIRcle and date back to 1919. The first thesis by Ruth Vivian Fulton is called, A study of the estimation of iron and the separation of manganese from iron by phenyl-nitroso-hydroxylamine ammonium (cupferron). It was also the first UBC thesis in Arts and Science.
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By Kevin Ho on Mar 24, 2011
In 1956, the first resources atlas of British Columbia was published by the British Columbia Natural Resources Conference. It was a remarkable achievement, representing the combined effort of the many people in industry, university, and government who comprised the conference. As a source of information about British Columbia, it was an outstanding reference and was widely consulted both at home and abroad by those who had a special interest in this province.
Over the years, rapid development of our resource-based industries brought many changes in the geography of the province, and the need for a new regional atlas became apparent. Although the British Columbia Natural Resources Conference is itself no longer active, the kind of interest in basic resources and resource industries of this province that it embodied is widespread.
To access this ebook made available through UBC Press, click here.
Did You Know?
There are also other books, book chapters, guidebooks/handbooks, and more that have been made available in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. Here are a few quick examples:
Above excerpt in italics is taken from the Foreword text by William Richards Bennett, former Premier of the Province of British Columbia.
The image shown below is the front cover of the atlas.
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By Kevin Ho on
Dr. Michael Hayden has received the Canada Gairdner Wightman Award, the premier honour for leadership in medical science in Canada.
Hayden, a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and director and senior scientist at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics at the Child & Family Research Institute, was selected for his leadership in medical genetics, entrepreneurship and humanitarianism.
To read the rest of this UBC Media Release, click here.
Did You Know?
Dr. Michael Hayden and graduate student, Jeff Carroll, were featured in Frontier: a journal of research and discovery, issue 4, June 2008. “There’s a sense of urgency around us. What we learn from HD is likely to have a direct relevance to other diseases of a similar nature like Alzheimer’s,” Hayden says. “We believe that what we’re learning here will have a broad relevance. This is not esoteric research.” Read the article here in cIRcle.
Above excerpt in italics and image courtesy of UBC Public Affairs.
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