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“

11/19/14

BCLA/CLA Library Tour: Richmond Public Library, December 2nd

Hi everyone! An upcoming BCLA/CLA SLAIS event!

Please join the BCLA/CLA SLAIS Student Chapter on a tour of Richmond Public Library on Tuesday, December 2nd at 10:00 AM. This tour will last approximately 60 minutes and will be followed with a half-hour Q&A session. The tour will be conducted by the library’s Coordinator of Learning Place Services and the Coordinator Circulation and Merchandizing.

Where: Meet at Ask Us desk at Richmond Public Library at 9:55 AM
When: Tuesday, December 2nd

Please use the Eventbrite link provided to register if you plan to attend. We will send out a reminder closer to the tour date.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Eventbrite Link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bclacla-tour-of-richmond-public-library-tickets-14490305895