ALA Conference Roundup, Friday, Sept. 27th, 5pm

Posted on September 22, 2013 by matthewmurray

ALA is hosting and ALA Conference Roundup this Friday, September 27th, at 5pm. You are all invited!

What: A chance to hear from fellow SLAIS students about attending the huge ALA Annual Conference held this past summer in Chicago. We will also discuss smaller conference options. Everything from why we went and how we paid for it to what we saw there, how to manage networking and do you need to have business cards even as a student will be discussed.

When: Friday, September, 27th, 5pm

Where: Buchanan B318 – Buchanan is the complex of buildings directly to the right of the Irving K. Barber Learning Canter (if you are facing the front doors). The easiest way to find building B is to go out the back doors of IKBLC and turn right. You will be walking straight towards Buchanan building B.

Afterwards: We will be heading to Calhoun’s cafe at 3035 W. Broadway after the discussion. Join us there even if you cannot attend the earlier event.

PLEASE SIGN UP on Eventbrite!

(It will make it easier for us to buy some soda and cookies for you all if we have an idea of how many people plan to attend.)

If you have any questions, please email us!

New Semester! New Events!

Posted on September 3, 2013 by matthewmurray

Hey all, welcome back to SLAIS! (Or welcome to SLAIS if you’re just starting.)

First Meeting of the Year!
Learn more about ALA, and order a tshirt.
Monday, September 9th, 1pm
SLAIS Trail Room

Discussion Panel: How to Go to a Huge Conference
Several current SLAIS students will describe their experiences attending the huge (almost 27,000 attendees!) ALA Annual Conference in Chicago earlier in the summer.
Friday, September 27th (Exact time and place to be determined)

More events to come this fall! (Including an exchange with our sibling group in Seattle?)

If you want more information, send us an email, follow us on twitter, or join our mailing list.

Email: ala.slais.ubc@gmail.com
Mailing List: groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ubcala
Twitter: ubcALA

Freedom to Read Week Marathon Reading – Thursday, February 28th, 2013

Posted on February 4, 2013 by matthewmurray

Freedom to Read week is approaching, so to celebrate our right to intellectual freedom in Canada and make people think about censorship, we’re co-hosting a marathon reading event! We’ll be reading from banned (and just otherwise awesome) books all day, and also helping to raise money for the One to One children’s literacy charity! Hurray!

Marathon Reading Event

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Layla

We are VERY excited to invite you to participate in a Marathon Reading Event!

A what?
The Marathon Reading Event, a joint effort of ALA@UBC, the SLAIS community, and Creative Writing students at UBC, is an opportunity to come together in celebration of our professions, our community, and our love for books. During the event, participants will take turns reading aloud from their favorite works. Everyone is invited to stop by to listen, enjoy treats, and contribute a loonie or two to our by-donation fundraiser. All proceeds will go to program development at the Carnegie Branch of the VPL in the Carnegie Centre.

Awesome! So when and where is this happening?
Wednesday, March 7 from 8 am to 8 pm in the Lillooet Room of IKBLC
Friday, March 9 from 1 pm to 3 pm in the auditorium at the Carnegie Centre

How can I participate?
There are many ways!

– Stop by the Dodson Room anytime on March 7 to listen to readings, relax with friends, eat snacks, and donate to our fundraiser
– Sign up to read aloud from your favorite book at the Google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ni7m1KrHn_DA1Pa9YD1V2P0vqf-psbKjD5Q7-cSLHo0/edit

– Bake something tasty for people to nibble on at the Dodson Room portion of the event, just bring it at anytime on March 7

– Come to the Carnegie Centre between 1 and 3 on March 9 to listen to readings by Carnegie patrons (or to read yourself if there are gaps in the action!)

Some incentives!
Everyone who reads and/or donates to the bake sale will be entered to win a gift card!

We’re pumped about this, and hope you are too. Please feel free to share this with friends, everyone is invited!

Any questions, just send them over!

Surrey City Centre Library Tour Recap

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Layla

Check out this lovely piece and photos by Brigid Winter on the Surrey City Centre Library tour co-hosted by the BCLA-CLA and ALA student groups.

A Library, Monumental by Brigid Winter

A monumental library is a very large library but it is more, it is a grand, impressive, meaningful monument with distinctive architecture that inspires wonder. A building that evokes exclamations like, ‘tremendous’ or ‘magnificent.’ It is a monumental structure that just happens to house a library. (Shoham & Yablonka, 2008)

I don’t know about anyone else but I certainly felt the magnificence of the Surrey City Central Library at first look. My initial thought on catching a glimpse of the library from the train was ‘Wow, that is a monumental library.’ Without knowing that it was the library, I recognized that it was the library (does that make sense to anyone else?). In my unlearned and untrained, non-architectural mind it certainly seemed like a building worthy of a place in any architectural digest. I was impressed by the use of the space and how everything felt and looked like parts of a natural flow; with natural light streaming through the expanse of glass walls.

Although, there was massive construction taking place directly in front of the library, it did not take away from its WOW factor but made me anxious to see what the entire area would look like after the planned developments were complete. One thing’s for sure – with the library on one side and the city hall the other, the area is bound to be teeming with people; an information exchange zone of sorts.

Our grand tour, led by the able David Kerr, took us from the ground floor (which featured a small café) all the way up to the seventh floor; each floor with its own personality and style and type of people. There was a lot to see so I’ll just point out some of the features/things that made an impression on me:

The public spaces – we were told that that was part of the plan, to create a lot of open/communal spaces. However, if you’re the peace and quiet type, there are also loads of quiet study areas you could hang out in.
Self-serve check out and return options available.
Teen lounge and gaming room with huge flat screen TV! How cool is that? I sure would have loved to have that kind of library around when I was a teenager.
The visually impaired have been catered for by way of the Read-Ability Center.
The different and unique collection of seating options.
The senior’s lounge.
Computer room and training center.
The ‘sound’ chairs! Insert a CD or even dock your own iPod/iPhone and just let the music flow over you. Oh, to own one of those myself…
And let’s not forget the various collections of information – books, DVDs, magazines, newspapers, journals, etc.

What I appreciated the most was that every age group was catered for in the planning of this library; from preschooler all the way to the senior citizen. The library has an excellent ‘vibe;” so much so that it didn’t feel like a library at all but a recreation club. This is definitely a library of the future, keeping pace with the rapid changes in technology and responding to these changes in order to meet the needs of its users. Here’s to monumental!

References

Shoham, S., & Yablonka, I. (2008). Monumental Library Buildings in the Internet Era: the future of public libraries. IFLA Journal, 34, 266-279. doi: 10.1177/0340035208097227

ALA Love Buffet: February 8th, 5pm!!

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Kate L.

What brings together treats, books and love, magical love?

Hmmm…could it be…………….the ALA Love Buffet?!

Join us on Tuesday, February 8th from 5-8pm in the SLAIS Lounge for amazing treats, a bawdy reading, and more.

*Have you been working so hard you haven’t had time to think about making a sweet Valentine’s day card for the special people in your life?

*Have you been working so hard you have forgotten to nourish yourself?

If so, come bring your neglected romance books (or other literary smut) and gather ’round to laugh your cares away as we share our passages

Just $5 will get you XTRA SPECIAL <3 treats + a glorious, blush-worthy array of Valentine’s card craft-making supplies!!!

Treats Featuring:

A heart-warming stew, slow-cooked in a big crock-pot (vegetarian and meat options)
An exuberant selection of our home-baked love-shaped cookies

We hope you can partake in the most romantic evening at SLAIS, probably ever!!!

Please suggest your favorite romantic readings in the comment section below, so we can have them on-hand!

ALA Student Chapter

UBC iSchool

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