Author Archives: Marche

11/9/15

Next BCLA/CLA Meeting – Trail Room, Nov 10 [Tues] 11am-12pm

Hi all! Meeting notification!

The next BCLA/CLA-UBC meeting is in the Trail Room at SLAIS on Tuesday Nov. 10 from 11am-12pm! Please be there, we’d all love to see you!

Some exec positions are still open, some which very much need to be filled too!

The positions are as follows:

Tour Coordinator(s) [2 positions available]
Webmaster/Communications Officer [I’m stepping down!]
CLA (Canadian Library Association) Representative

The latter two (Webmaster/Comm. Officer and CLA Rep) are very much needed, because the former handles the group’s electronic communications and web presence, and the latter is BCLA/CLA-UBC’s connection to CLA, which is very important indeed.

Attached are the documents relating to the executive roles and the Year in Review from previous execs in these positions, along with all others.

Please consider putting yourself forward for a position – it’s a great way to get involved in not just the SLAIS community, but the professional field as well, get some great experience in a variety of activities, skills and the field, and also to get to network and know some great people. It is well worth it!

That’s all for now!

09/21/15

First Meeting of the Term! Monday, Sep. 21, Trail Room, 11am-12pm!

Hi all! Welcome to the amazing new term!

The first meeting of BCLA/CLA@UBC is happening at 11am-12pm, Monday, at the Trail Room in the SLAIS Department Space! As always, the Trail Room is the conference room on the far side of the SLAIS Lounge.

Be there! Be involved! Also important is that the position of Intellectual Freedom Committee Representative is open for election at this meeting! Drop by if you’re interested!

05/22/15

Upcoming event! Library Tour – Details Within

Lurking in the Basement: Discovering the IKB Library
Wednesday, May 27th – 10:00am-12:00pm Rare Books and Special Collections, IKB Basement
The BCLA is putting on a DOUBLE HEADER. Join us to tour the UBC Rare Books and Special Collections and Digital Initiatives. These are two information centres right in our own building. Come and see the cool things that are happening under our very noses. Rare books at 10:00 and Digital Initiatives at 11:00 each an hour long.
Please bring your UBC student card or some other piece of photo ID for Rare Books. And we’ll go out for lunch after to talk about library/archival/information things.
RSVP at this link or by emailing saraharbeider@gmail.com !
Hope to see you there!
04/7/15

BCLA/CLA UBC Meeting – April 8, 11am, Trail Room [Final Meeting of the Semester]

Hello everyone!

We invite you to our final BCLA/CLA UBC meeting of the semester tomorrow, April 8 (Wednesday) at 11am in the Trail Room in SLAIS. This meeting is particularly important because we will be electing people to the following positions:

BCLA Representative

CLA Representative

2 Tour Coordinators

If you’re curious, or interested at all in running for these positions, come on down for the meeting! All are welcome.

– Marche

02/27/15

Upcoming Event: BCLA Mentorship Program Info Session

BCLA Mentorship Program Info Session
Monday, March 2nd, 11:00am
Buchanan Building D, 325

Please join us for an information session on the BCLA Mentorship Program led by Pat Cummings & Amy Ashmore. The BCLA Mentorship program is an exceptional opportunity for new/student librarians to receive coaching & develop a professional relationship over a 6 weeks session with an experienced library professional. The Mentorship Program is designed to link new library professionals with mentors from a variety of different libraries and career backgrounds.

02/16/15

Upcoming BCLA/CLA Tour – February 18, Wednesday, 11AM

There’s an upcoming BCLA/CLA tour and demonstration of the ASRS (Automated Storage Retrieval System) here at UBC on Wednesday, February 18th at 11:00AM. The demonstration will take approximately 30-45 minutes and will be followed by a Q&A session with the ASRS Supervisor.

The tour will take place in an active work area, and can accommodate no more than 12 people, but there do appear to be spaces left.

Hope to see you there! Here’s the event/RSVP link.

02/14/15

Freedom to Read Week 2015! Tuesday, February 24

Please join us for an all day event celebrating our Freedom to Read!

9:00-3:30pm, February 24th. Dodson Room, 3rd floor Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Please sign up for a 10 minute slot to read from your favourite challenged or banned book, or read from one of the many books we will have available. Drop in readers are also welcome. 9-12 & 1-3:30

Sign up to read at http://tinyurl.com/FreedomToRead-UBC

From 12-1pm, we are featuring a panel moderated by UBC University Librarian Ingrid Parent discussing how intellectual freedom is lived through everyday life experience and work. Speakers will include Christopher Kevlahan, Branch Head at Joe Fortes VPL; Dr. Gregory Mackie, Assistant Professor, Department of English, UBC; Tara Robertson, Accessibility Librarian, CAPER-BC at Langara College; Miriam Moses, the Acquisitions Librarian at Burnaby Public Library. Light refreshments will be served.

We will also have a Freedom to Write space and welcome everyone to come write and share your words.

Tweet to share your 3 favourite banned or challenged books using #FTRWeek. We’ll also have an (actually physical!) board where you you can write and post them at the event.

Come pick up a bookmark on banned books or come read about current news on challenged, banned or censored materials in Canada.

This event is organized by the BCLA/CLA Student Chapter at UBC and the ALA Student Chapter at UBC.

02/4/15

iSchool Awards and Scholarship Opportunities

Some interesting award and scholarship opportunities from SLAIS! Here it is:

“iSchool Award and Scholarship Opportunities

In addition to the internal iSchool awards circulated in December, the School also offers opportunities for those wishing to attend both ACA and CLA. More information can be found at the following link:

http://slais.ubc.ca/ischool-student-conference-support-call-for-applications/

We encourage all students interested to apply for these awards and other iSchool awards early so you do not miss the deadline.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact Melissa at ischool.ssc@ubc.ca“