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2012 Lecture Archived Presentations Vancouver Lectures

Breathing new life into the profession: LIS education in the 21st Century

 The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present:

 

Caroline Haythornthwaite

Louise Spiteri

Director, School of Library, Archival & Information Studies

University of British Columbia

 

Director of the School of Information Management

Dalhousie University

Speaking about…

Breathing new life into the profession: LIS education in the 21st Century

***Archived webcast***

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012: 10:00-12:00pm

The Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

 Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3680829460

***Coffee and refreshments will be served prior to the presentation beginning 9:30am***

 Libraries and library roles are undergoing rapid transformation in the 21stcentury. In the face of such enormous change, some libraries are choosing non-library trained professionals to fill key new roles. Others are looking to non-library professional programs to help train library professionals in new roles. While others are demanding library education change immediately to meet the demands for new skill sets required for new library positions. Two innovative esteemed Canadian Library School Directors will speak to the many challenges facing library and information professional programs in preparing library and information professionals for 21st century roles.

About the Speakers:

 Dr. Haythornthwaite is Director of the School of Library, Archival & Information Studies, the iSchool at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Prior to coming to UBC in 2010, Dr. Haythornthwaite was Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2009-10 she was the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London. Dr. Haythornthwaite was among the first to apply social network analysis to the study of online communities and online learning, and she has produced seminal work in these areas. Her research examines how the Internet and computer media support and affect work, learning, and social interaction, with a focus on how information and knowledge is shared through social networks, and collaborative practices are facilitated and extended through information technologies. Her studies have examined social networks of work and media use, the development and nature of community online, distributed knowledge processes, the nature and constraints of interdisciplinary collaboration, and the transformative effects of the Internet and web 2.0 technologies on learning and collaborative practices. She has written extensively on the Internet, online social networks, and online learning (e-learning). Major publications include The Internet in Everyday Life (Blackwell, 2002, with Barry Wellman); Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice (Lang, 2004, with Michelle M. Kazmer), a special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication on Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices and Systems (2005), and the Handbook of E-learning Research (Sage, 2007, with Richard Andrews). Her latest book, E-learning Research and Practice (Sage, 2011, co-authored with Richard Andrews) particularly addresses the way learning is changing with the Internet and social media.

Dr. Spiteri is the Director of the School of Information Management (SIM) at Dalhousie University. She received a BA and MA in Canadian History from York University, a MLIS from the University of Western Ontario, and a BEd (History and French) and a PhD (Information Studies) from the University of Toronto. She joined SIM as a faculty member in 1998.  Dr. Spiteri received teaching awards from Wayne State University and Dalhousie University, and has served as the Academic Director of the MLIS program at SIM from May 1st 2009 to June 30th 2010.

Dr. Spiteri teaches in the areas of the organization of information, including records management, cataloguing and classification, and indexing, and conducts research in social discovery systems, classification theory, thesaurus construction, and cataloguing. Dr. Spiteri’s research has been presented at national and international academic and professional conferences.  She was amongst the first scholars to examine the impact of social tagging systems and folksonomies on the integration of user-based language into subject analysis systems.  Dr. Spiteri is conducting seminal and highly-cited research into the potential for social discovery tools to transform the library catalogue into an online, collaborative, and virtual experience of walking through the library’s stacks. Dr. Spiteri is actively involved in several academic, professional, and not-for-profit associations, and sits on the editorial boards of a number of peer-reviewed journals.

For more information about the Lecture series, contact BCLRG Lecture Series Coordinators:

Nancy Black (blackn@unbc.ca), Joy Kirchner (joy.kirchner@ubc.ca), Tracie Smith (tracies@uvic.ca), Don Taylor (dtaylor@sfu.ca)

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2011 Lecture Archived Presentations Vancouver Lectures Victoria Lectures

Student Interpretations of the Library as Place

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present:

“I absolutely love that room – whatever it’s called.”
Student Interpretations of the Library as Place

Amanda Wakaruk, MLIS, MES
Government Documents Librarian
University of Alberta

***Archived webcast***

Vancouver
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
9:30-11:00am
Room 2270, Harbour Centre Building, 515 West Hastings
SFU Vancouver

Victoria
Thursday, March 3, 2011
10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Room 210, McPherson Library
University of Victoria

Successful academic libraries are happening places… but what is actually happening in them? This session will examine the social construction of academic libraries as interpreted through the experiences of its users. Amanda’s research, informed by approaches developed in phenomenological psychology and environment-behaviour studies, explores the evolving role of physical libraries, their conception as “place”, and environment-behaviour aspects of the library user experience. Drawing on data gathered through semi-structured interviews, observational seating sweeps, and stories about memorable library experiences, the results of this project will help us consider the future of the library as place.

About the Speaker:

Amanda Wakaruk is the Government Documents Librarian at the University of Alberta Libraries. A graduate of SLIS (1999), Amanda returned to the UofA in 2009 after working at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and York University in Toronto, Ontario. Motivated by “end of libraries” rhetoric, she completed a Master’s Degree in Environmental Studies (York, 2009) in an attempt to apply place studies research to the academic library experience.

Vancouver

Wednesday, March 2, 2011
9:30-11:00am
Room 2270, Harbour Centre Building, 515 West Hastings
SFU Vancouver

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Mark your calendars! Next BCRLG lecture: March 2-3, 2011

Have you considered: What if We Closed the Library?

We are pleased to announce that our next speaker in the BCRLG Lecture Series will be Amanda Wakaruk of the University of Alberta.

Amanda will share her thoughts on this question and more in this presentation of her research findings and current thinking on the Library as Space.  Not to be missed!

Photo credit: The Radical Patron

For a sneak preview of Amanda’s investigations, check out her article published in C&RL News, January 2009.



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2010 Lecture Archived Presentations Vancouver Lectures Victoria Lectures

Navigating the Internet for Learning Purposes

Navigating the Internet for Learning Purposes:
Why some novices are more successful than others

Malinda Desjarlais, PhD

Assistant Professor
University of Northern British Columbia,
Psychology Department

***Archived webcast ***
BCLA Browser report

Victoria
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
1 pm – 2:30 pm
McPherson Library, Room 210
University of Victoria

Vancouver
Thursday, December 2, 2010
2 pm – 3:30 pm
Room 2270, Saunder Industries Policy Room
SFU Harbour Front Centre

Dr. Desjarlais investigates factors that influence decision-making when novices navigate the Internet for learning and information seeking purposes. In exploring learner and task characteristics she considers prior knowledge, motivation, self-regulatory skills, attentional control, and short-term memory capacity and assesses how these factors act as supports for novices when learning from the Internet. These characteristics are analyzed through pre-and post-testing, interviewing and by tracking learners’ gaze during navigation. The use of an eyetracker has revealed differences in the selection of and attention to information within a webpage, variability in information navigation characteristics, and shifts in navigation strategies. She has extended this research by exploring differences in novices’ Internet navigations related to achievement. Her presentation will be of interest to researchers and practitioners interested in Internet learning, information seeking behavior research, and imposed query searching.

About the Speaker:
Malinda Desjarlais has a PhD in Psychology from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario and is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her research area is in the field of human development with strong interests in cognitive development.

For more information, contact BCLRG Lecture Series Coordinators:

Nancy E. Black (blackn@unbc.ca ), Joy Kirchner (joy.kirchner@ubc.ca), Kat McGrath (kat.mcgrath@ubc.ca),  Tracie Smith (tracies@uvic.ca), Don Taylor (dtaylor@sfu.ca)

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2010 Lecture Archived Presentations Vancouver Lectures

G. Sayeed Choudhury: The Case for Open Data & eScience

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present

G. Sayeed Choudhury

Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and
Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center
Johns Hopkins University

***Archived webcast***
BCLA Browser report

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The Case for Open Data and eScience – Establishing a University Data Management Program at Johns Hopkins

Joint BCRLG/ Open Access Week Keynote Event

Friday, October 22nd, 9:30-11:00am

Dodson Room,
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Live Webcast at University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Room UNC 334

Faculty at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) associated with community-wide eScience projects identified data curation as one of the most important repository-related services. In response, Johns Hopkins University established a university data management program and a service model to support data curation as part of an evolving cyberinfrastructure featuring open, modular components. In addition to this technological framework, Johns Hopkins is developing new roles and relationships between the library and the academic community, most notably through the development of “data scientists” or “data humanists.” These developments reflect the realization that the IR is the first step in a longer journey and that for institutional efforts to be successful, they must be integrated into a larger landscape of repositories that serve a distributed and diverse academic community. Sayeed Choudhury will discuss these developments at JHU and how these developments support the case for open data and the longer term vision for data management.

About the Speaker:

G. Sayeed Choudhury is the Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Director of Operations for the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) based at Johns Hopkins. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins, a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Senior Presidential Fellow with the Council on Library and Information Resources. He is a member of the ICPSR Council, DuraSpace Board and the Digital Library Federation advisory committee.

Choudhury serves as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is the Principal Investigator for the Data Conservancy, one of the awards through NSF’s DataNet program. He has oversight for the digital library activities and services provided by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Choudhury has published articles in journals such as the International Journal of Digital Curation, D-Lib, the Journal of Digital Information, First Monday, and Library Trends. He has served on committees for the Digital Curation Conference, Open Repositories, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and Web-Wise. He has presented at various conferences including Educause, CNI, DLF, ALA, ACRL, and international venues including IFLA, the Kanazawa Information Technology Roundtable and eResearch Australasia.

For more information about the Lecture series  or contact BCLRG Lecture Series Coordinators:

Joy Kirchner (joy.kirchner@ubc.ca), Kat McGrath (kat.mcgrath@ubc.ca), Don Taylor (dtaylor@sfu.ca), Tracie Smith (tracies@uvic.ca)

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present

G. Sayeed Choudhury

Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center

Johns Hopkins University 

 
who will be speaking about 

The Case for Open Data and eScience – Establishing a University Data Management Program at Johns Hopkins

This event is a joint BCRLG/ Open Access Week Keynote Event

(This event will be live in Vancouver and live webcasted in Victoria, UNBC, UBC Okanagan)

Friday, October 22nd, 9:30-11:00am
Dodson Room,
 Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia and 
Live Webcast at UBC Okanagan, room UNC 334
 
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2010 Lecture Archived Presentations Vancouver Lectures Victoria Lectures

Maria Bonn & Catherine Mitchell: Library as Publisher

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present

Maria Bonn Catherine Mitchell
Associate University Librarian for Publishing Director, Publishing Group,
University Library California Digital Library
University of Michigan University of California

Library as Publisher – Establishing a University Publishing Program

*UPDATE*  Video of UBC presentation available here

Victoria

Thursday, March 18, 2010
10:00a.m. – Noon
Room 210:  Mearns Centre for Learning
University of Victoria

Vancouver

Friday, March 19, 2010
9:30 – 11:30am
Dodson Room:  Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
University of British Columbia

In 2009, the University of Michigan Library announced the formation of MPublishing, the primary academic publishing unit of the University of Michigan, with responsibility for the creation and promotion of scholarly, educational, and regional materials in digital and print formats. MPublishing is a newly formed publishing unit within the University of Michigan Library that includes University of Michigan Press, the Scholarly Publishing Office, Deep Blue (the University’s institutional repository), and the Copyright Office. Its goal is to align the existing and future publishing activities of the Library with the core strengths and information needs of the University while providing a wide range of audiences outside the University with efficient, economical access to some of the best scholarship in the world. Maria Bonn will discuss the genesis, operations, and ongoing challenges of running MPublishing:

Last year, the University of California Press and the California Digital Library (CDL) announced University of California Publishing Services (UCPubS), a joint program intended to respond to publishing needs within UC. UCPubS brings the complementary services of the press and the library together to offer a rich suite of open-access digital and print publishing tools to the UC system centers, institutes, and departments that produce scholarly books. Catherine Mitchell will review the progress of this program, including the motivations behind this library-press collaboration, the specific services UCPubS provides as an extension of the eScholarship publishing platform, outreach efforts across the campuses, the challenges encountered so far, and how other presses and libraries can build on this experience.

About the Speakers:

Maria Bonn is Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan University Library, where she is responsible for developing and coordinating the publishing program and services of the University Library, including the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office. Maria has a PhD in English Literature from the State University of NY at Buffalo, and a Masters of Information from The University of Michigan School of Information.

Catherine Mitchell is Director, Publishing Group, California Digital Library (CDL) where she is responsible for overseeing the strategic planning and development of CDL’s Publishing Services. In addition to developing and supporting the eScholarship publishing and IR platform, CDL’s Publishing Group offers joint publishing services to the UC community in conjunction with the University of California Press. All of these services represent UC’s broader effort to ensure a sustainable scholarly publishing system in the service of research and teaching. Catherine has a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley

For more information contact BCLRG Lecture Series Coordinators:

Joy Kirchner (joy.kirchner@ubc.ca), Kat McGrath (kat.mcgrath@ubc.ca), Don Taylor (dtaylor@sfu.ca), Katy Nelson (katnel@uvic.ca), Tracie Smith (tracies@uvic.ca)

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Karen Williams: Subject Librarian 2.0

*UPDATE*  Video of Karen Williams’ presentation >here<.

Karen Williams

Subject Librarian 2.0: Preparing Liaison Librarians for 21st Century Academic Environments

Karen Williams will be speaking about how the University of Minnesota Libraries has begun the process of redefining liaison librarian roles to better prepare subject librarians for 21st century academic environments. She will outline emerging roles, discuss the skills needed to fulfill those roles, and showcase University of Minnesota’s approach to transitioning liaison roles that better reflects current research environments and anticipates future academic environments.

Vancouver

Friday, September 18, 2009, 9:30am – 10:30am
Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Harbour Centre, Canfor Room (Room 1600)

Victoria

Monday, September 21, 2009, 8:30am – 9:30am*
University of Victoria, University Club, Salal and Snowberry rooms

Karen Williams is Associate University Librarian for Academic Programs at the University of Minnesota, a position she has held since late 2004. Prior to that, she spent 22 years at the University of Arizona Library in a variety of positions, including subject liaison to several departments. She led the development of new liaison position descriptions at Minnesota, which include roles in scholarly communication, information literacy integration, and digital tool development

BCLRG Lecture Series Coordinators: Joy Kirchner (joy.kirchner@ubc.ca), Kat McGrath (kat.mcgrath@ubc.ca), Don Taylor (dtaylor@sfu.ca), Heather de Forest (hdefores@sfu.ca) or Katy Nelson (katnel@uvic.ca)

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Karla Hahn: Models of Scholarly Publishing & Communication

*UPDATE* PowerPoint presentation now available >here<

Karla Hahn, PhD.

Field Study Findings on Faculty & Researcher Use of New Models of Scholarly Publishing & Communication

Vancouver

Thursday, March 5, 2009, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (Rm. 302) University of British Columbia

Victoria

Friday, March 6, 2009, 2:00pm – 4:00pm

University of Victoria, Mearns Centre for Learning, Room 210

In the Spring of 2008, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) engaged Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization promoting innovation in academia, to conduct an investigation into the range of new models of scholarly publishing and communication valued by scholars, with a particular focus on those works that are pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional formats and are considered innovative by the faculty who use them. A field team of 301 librarians at 46 institutions interviewed professors about the digital resources they use.  Among the key findings and works Karla Hahn, Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at ARL, will describe include:

  • Evidence that innovative digital resources can be found across the humanities, social sciences, and scientific/technical/medical subject areas.
  • Almost every resource cited by faculty operates under some form of peer review or editorial oversight.
  • Some the resources with greatest impact are those that have been around a long while.
  • Many digital publications are capable of running on relatively small budgets and are tailored to small, niche audiences.
  • Innovations relating to multimedia content and Web 2.0 functionality appear in some cases to blur the lines between resource types.
  • Projects of all sizes, especially open access sites and publications, employ a range of support strategies in the search for financial sustainability.

The findings were published in November 2008 and titled: “Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication – Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries:” http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/current-models-report.pdf

About the Speaker:

Karla Hahn has been the Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at ARL since May 2005. Key areas of activity for the office include the assessment and implementation of selected new scholarly communication models; the development of alliances to advance new systems of scholarly communication; and advancement of library outreach efforts to inform the educational and research communities on trends, findings, opportunities, and their impact on promotion and tenure, on teaching and research, and on university budgets. Karla holds a PhD from the University of Maryland College of Information Studies, an MLS from Syracuse University, an MS from the University of Chicago, and a BS from Wittenberg University. Her writings include Electronic Ecology: A Case Study of Electronic Journals in Context and numerous articles on issues relating to publishing and electronic communication

BCLRG Lecture Series Coordinators: Joy Kirchner (joy.kirchner@ubc.ca), Kat McGrath (kat.mcgrath@ubc.ca), Don Taylor (dtaylor@sfu.ca), Heather de Forest (hdefores@sfu.ca) or Katy Nelson (katnel@uvic.ca)

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2008 Archived Presentations Vancouver Lectures

Andrew Waller: Open Access Authors Fund

*UPDATE* this presentation is now available online >here<

Andrew Waller

In June 2008, Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary established an Open Access Authors Fund. The first of its kind in Canada and the sixth such program in the world, the Fund is designed to pay submission fees for University of Calgary authors who have articles accepted in Open Access journals that charge such fees. This initiative and other open access funds established at University of California-Berkeley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Nottingham, and University of Amsterdam represents innovative ways Libraries, typically in partnership with their University administrations or VP of Research offices, are supporting open access publication on their campuses.

Monday, November 17th, 2008

3:30 to 5:00pm Dodson Room (302), Irving K. Barker Learning Centre The University of British Columbia

Andrew Waller is Serials Librarian in the Collections Services unit at the University of Calgary. He also has some managerial responsibilities in the Serial Acquisitions unit. Andrew regularly writes and speaks on topics such as Open Access, e-journals, the effects of the USA PATRIOT and similar legislation on Canadian libraries, and systematic downloading. He is a contributor to the Open Access Librarian blog and is a Canadian editor for E-LIS.

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Creative Commons Canada – an alternative to traditional copyright

The freedom of the Internet and the digital age has challenged the role of copyright. What should copyright look like when information can be moved so freely? Should we continue to protect intellectual property and authorship the way we always have?
Tina Piper, co-Director of Creative Commons Canada will explain how Creative Commons offers an alternative to traditional copyright. Creative Commons is a non-profit group that develops licenses which allow authors/rights-holder to alter the conditions of use on their copyrighted works. Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright — all rights reserved — and the public domain — no rights reserved. Learn how Creative Commons licenses help authors and creators keep their copyright while inviting certain uses of your work — a “some rights reserved” copyright.

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