Feature Place at IKBLC: Keremeos
Posted in Resources on Jul 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Keremeos is located in the Southern Interior of British Columbia and is in the Similkameen Valley.
Featured Place at IKBLC: Muskwa River
Posted in Resources on Jul 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Room 416, a group study room on the fourth floor of the Barber Centre, is named after the Muskwa River.
Drivers of environmental change: focus on energy transitions webcast online
Posted in Events, Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2011 No Comments »
Vaclav Smil is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.
Featured Place at IKBLC: Fernie
Posted in Resources on May 5th, 2011 1 Comment »
In our ongoing series of B.C. place names used in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, this week we will look at Fernie, B.C.
BC History Digitization Program: 2011 recipients
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Twenty-one projects from around the province have been named as successful recipients of the 2011 B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) funding awards. The digitization program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, was launched in 2006. It provides matching funds that help libraries, archives, museums and other organizations digitize unique historical items, including [...]
David Der-wei Wang – Writing History after “Post-History”
Posted in Events, Resources on Mar 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Wat Endowment and hosted by the Department of Asian Studies.
1759 And the Future of the Memory in Quebec Webcast Online
Posted in Events, Resources on Dec 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education. In the summer of 2009, the battle of the Plains of Abraham was fought one more time in Quebec. The debate that stormed over the commemoration of the event proved that it is not easy to negotiate the meaning [...]
Maya Jasanoff – An Imperial Disaster? The Loyalist Diaspora after the American Revolution
Posted in Events, Resources on Oct 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC History department.
CHRP-funded project at UBC noted in the Georgia Straight
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 1st, 2010 No Comments »
A recent article in the Georgia Straight about an online exhibit dedicated to Chinese Canadian history also cites UBC Library’s recent news about a $900,000 contribution from the Community Historical Recognition Program. This funding supports an English-Chinese Web portal entitled “Chinese Canadian Stories: Uncommon Histories from a Common Past.” You can view the the Georgia [...]
Michael Halliday – “Language evolving” IKBLC Webcast Online
Posted in Events, Resources on Aug 25th, 2010 No Comments »
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Department of Language and Literacy Education and the Faculty of Education
Minghui Yu
Allan
Simon Neame
Glenn Drexhage
Kyuwon Kim