March 6th, 2017 by Sharon Choi | Comments Off on Talking With First Nations Archives with the Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC)
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC) and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre are pleased to present the webcast roundtable “Talking with First Nations Archives. ” Colleagues who work in local First Nations Archives, Resource Centres and in Records Management programs will share their experiences establishing archives, their role in facilitating access to records, and issues and concerns they encounter on a daily basis.
This event happened on February 23, 2017.
Select Books and Articles Available at UBC Library
Face, M., & Hollens, D. (2004). A Digital Library to Serve a Region: The Bioregion and First Nations Collections of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives. Reference & User Services Quarterly,44(2), 116-121. [Link]
Lawson, K. L. (2004, November 24). Precious fragments : First Nations materials in archives, libraries and museums (T). [Link]
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March 6th, 2017 by Sharon Choi | Comments Off on CANADA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS: The Alcuin Society’s 2015 Winners
Every Spring since 1981, Vancouver’s Alcuin Society holds a national competition to select the country’s most beautiful books of the previous year. The winning books tour every province in Canada, and are also exhibited at the two major book fairs in Germany, in Frankfurt and Leipzig. As well, copies are donated to the Canadian Embassy Library in Tokyo, where they are exhibited during the Tokyo International Book Fair.
The purpose of the competition is to motivate publishers to pay attention to the look of books, as well as to their content. In addition, the Society hopes to encourage book designers by national and international recognition of their work.
The books are judged by three different jurors each year – experts in their fields from all over the country, and, occasionally, from abroad. The entire book is taken into account: the cover, the choice of type, layout, white space; paper used, readibility, creativity in design; and most of all, the appropriateness of the design to the content.
This March, IKBLC is exhibiting the winners from last year’s competition. There are eight categories of books: from children’s books to pictorial, from poetry to reference. Some of the judges’ comments on what they liked about the books are available, and displayed near the books.
PDFs of the full-colour awards catalogues are available online for some of the past competition winners. In mid-March 2017, the Society’s 35th competition will take place in Vancouver, for Canada’s 2016 publications, and when it’s published, this year’s catalogue will be available online as well.
This exhibit takes place March 1 to 31, at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (2nd level).
March 6th, 2017 by Sharon Choi | Comments Off on Double Exposure Japan-Canada: Missionary Photographs of Meiji-Taisho Japan
Take a rare glimpse into Japan in the 1890s-1920s through the photographs taken by a Canadian missionary, John Cooper Robinson. We can only begin to understand Cooper Robinson’s photographs by overlaying both Canadian and Japanese historical contexts and perspectives. Join our symposium led by art historians and historians who specialize in Japan and Canada, to explore ways in which the Cooper Robinson photographs can be used and made relevant for future research and teaching. Symposium attendees will have the opportunity to visit the ongoing curated exhibit at Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC). Register here for this event!
Event Details
When: Friday, March 24 2017 12:00 PM-4:00 PM
Where: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room
Allen Hockley is Associate Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College. He specializes in early Japanese photography and woodblock prints and illustrated books from the Tokugawa through early Showa periods.
A. Hamish Ion is a professor emeritus in the History Department, Royal Military College of Canada. He is a specialist in modern Japanese history.
Ignacio Adriasola is assistant professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory at the University of British Columbia.
Tristan Grunow is assistant professor without review in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia.
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LAW LIBRARY level 3: KE303 B84 2016 Sarah Buhler, Sarah Marsden & Gemma Smyth,Clinical Law: Practice, Theory, and Social Justice Advocacy (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications Limited, 2016).
LAW LIBRARY level 3: KE1328 .H37 2016 Cameron Harvey & Darcy MacPherson,Agency and Partnership Law Primer, 5th ed. (Toronto: Thomson Reuters, 2016).
LAW LIBRARY level 3: KE2114 .K463 2017 Joseph F. Kenkel & J.D. Osgoode,Impaired Driving in Canada: The Charter Cases, 3d ed. (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2017).
LAW LIBRARY level 3: KE303 B84 2016 Sarah Buhler, Sarah Marsden & Gemma Smyth,Clinical Law: Practice, Theory, and Social Justice Advocacy (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications Limited, 2016).
LAW LIBRARY level 3: KE1328 .H37 2016 Cameron Harvey & Darcy MacPherson,Agency and Partnership Law Primer, 5th ed. (Toronto: Thomson Reuters, 2016).
LAW LIBRARY level 3: KE2114 .K463 2017 Joseph F. Kenkel & J.D. Osgoode,Impaired Driving in Canada: The Charter Cases, 3d ed. (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2017).
