Category: Victoria Lectures

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2018 Lecture Victoria Lectures

Surveying the Landscape: Research Data Management, Data Governance and Ethics

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present

“Surveying the Landscape: Research Data Management,
Data Governance and Ethics”

Dr. Jacqueline Quinless
CLIR Data Fellow at University of Victoria McPherson Library
Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology


Time: Thursday, January 25, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm

Location: University of Victoria McPherson Library / Mearns Center for Learning, Digital Scholarship Commons (3rd floor)

Registration: To attend the January 25 event in Victoria, please email Scott Johnston at scjo@uvic.ca.

Webcast: This event has now ended, but you can watch the recording of the presentation.

Abstract:
The history of the collection of data on Indigenous people across the globe has been problematic because of the methods which have failed to capture important differences relating to Indigenous peoples and communities and also in the way the data is processed, analyzed and disseminated. The 94 recommendations of the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have further generated responses regarding how to address the impacts of residential schools.

This presentation will draw on a 2017-2018 campus-wide research study at the University of Victoria to discuss Research Data Management and challenges to open sharing. The conversation will explore topics related to data curation and data management, open access, and practices that are both ethically and culturally informed in the context of Indigenous protocols and data initiatives.

About the presenter:
Dr. Jacqueline Quinless is currently a CLIR Data Fellow, and works in Digital Scholarship and Strategy at the University of Victoria. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and an award winning sociologist recognized by the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) and Angus-Reid Foundation for her community-based research to advancing Human Welfare in Canada.

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2016 Lecture Open Access Vancouver Lectures Victoria Lectures

Rick Anderson Lectures : UVic and SFU — Open Access Week 2016

In celebration of Open Access Week 2016 The BC Research Libraries Group is Proud to Present:

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Rick Anderson — President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing &  Associate Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication at the University of Utah who will speak about

What Do We Want? (We’re Not Sure!) When Do We Want It? (Hard to Say!): Reconciling the Needs of Analysis and Advocacy in Scholarly-Communication Reform.

DATES & LOCATIONS:
Monday, October 24, 2:00-3:30pm 
University of Victoria McPherson Library, Room 210
OR
Tuesday, October 25, 9:00-10:30am 
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Campus, Room 7000
(with Live Webcast starting at 9:30am)

ABSTRACT:   Reforming scholarly communication is a tough job, made tougher by factors that include the lack of unanimity among stakeholders as to what reform should look like (or whether it’s needed at all);  the wide variety of needs and interests among the system’s stakeholders; the structural complexity of the system itself; the lack of unanimity as to what “open access” means; the heavy weight of tradition in academic practice; and the high level of emotion that inevitably accompanies discussion of these issues.  The difficulty and complexity of the reform project suggest that analysis is needed, but the moral and emotional weight of the issues involved naturally lead us in the direction of advocacy instead—and advocacy and analysis are, unfortunately, natural enemies.  In this session we will review salient aspects of the scholarly-communication landscape that make reform particularly challenging, some principles for addressing those challenges, and some possible mechanisms for applying these principles to bridge perspectives, including strategies for including the all-important authors’ voice.

This event has now concluded, but you can watch the recorded webcast.

How to Register:

  1. to attend the Oct. 24 event in Victoria, please register by emailing Scott Johnston scjo@uvic.ca OR
  2. to attend the Oct. 25 event in Vancouver, please register here.  Space limited, so register early!
  3. To view the Oct. 25 live webcast, please watch this site for details: http://www.sfu.ca/webcast/index.html

ABOUT RICK ANDERSON:   Over the past decade, Rick Anderson has distinguished himself as one of the most creative thinkers and provocative speakers on libraries, library collections, and scholarly publishing.  Named a Library Journal “Mover & Shaker” in 2005, Rick currently serves as Associate Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication at the University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, as President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and member of several editorial boards, but is best known as a popular conference speaker, writer and contributor to Library Journal’s Academic Newswire and the Scholarly Kitchen. His experience spanning the worlds of libraries, publishing, and as a writer and bookseller uniquely qualifies him to address the current challenges and future of open access and scholarly publishing. Rick has authored several books including the recent Libraries, Leadership and Scholarly Communication: Essays by Rick Anderson, published by ALA Editions in 2016.

 

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2014 Lecture Vancouver Lectures Victoria Lectures

Rethinking Library Resources: The Role of Local Print Collections in a Digital Age

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present

Rick Lugg

President, Sustainable Collection Services

who will be speaking about

Rethinking Library Resources:

The Role of Local Print Collections in a Digital Age

Vancouver

March 6, 2014, 1:00-3:00p.m.

Earl & Jennie Lohn Policy Room (Rm. 7000),

SFU Harbour Centre (webcast available for this session only)

  • Coffee and refreshments will be served at 1:00 p.m., with the talk beginning at 1:30 p.m.
  • Be sure to arrive early for some mingling, and feel free to socialize after the talk as well.

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Victoria

March 7, 2014, 1:30-3:30p.m.

Haro Room, Cadboro Commons

University of Victoria

  • Coffee and refreshments will be served at 1:30 p.m., with the talk beginning at 2:00 p.m.
  • Be sure to arrive early for some mingling, and feel free to socialize after the talk as well.

 

 

Library shelves are increasingly full, and print books are still being acquired. Yet surprisingly few are being used. In 2011, a study of OhioLINK’s 88 libraries and 30 million monograph volumes showed that 6% of those books accounted for 80% of circulations. In October 2010, Cornell reported that 55% of its books had not circulated since 1990. Meanwhile, library administrators seek to expand space for group study, information commons, and writing centers. Much of the available space is currently occupied by low-use print collections, stored and maintained at an estimated annual cost of $4.26 per volume in open stacks, $.86 per volume in high-density storage. For these reasons, print collections face increased scrutiny.

This session will focus on three aspects of this challenge:

The Changing Value of Local Print Collections: changing user preferences; usage of print collections; shelving and floor space; lifecycle management costs.

Alternatives to Local Print Collections: collection integrity & security; the “collective collection”; archival copies, service copies and surplus copies; Hathi Trust; shared print initiatives (WEST, CRL, MI-SPI, Maine Shared Collection Strategy and others); and independent action in a collective context.

Managing Down Local Collections: making the case; coordinated deselection; efficient storage & withdrawal; analytical tools and deselection metadata; disposition options.

The intent of this session is to explore why rethinking print collections is a reasonable idea at this time, and how management of print collections might be adapted while assuring archival security and continued access for users.

About the Speaker:

Additional background information can be found on two blogs:

Sample & Hold: Rick Lugg’s Blog http://sampleandhold-r2.blogspot.com/ Most recent topic: “Shared Print Monographs: The Question of Scale”

SCS Insight: News & Comment on Data-Driven Deselection: http://sustainablecollections.com/weed-feed/ Most recent topic: “Talking with Faculty About Library Collections (Revisited)”

Logistics

For those attending in Victoria, the easiest parking is available in Lot 5, accessed off Sinclair Road (which continues MacKenzie). Refer to the following map: http://www.uvic.ca/home/about/campus-info/maps/maps/com.php

For those attending in Vancouver, parking and public transit info for SFU Harbour Centre is available here: http://www.sfu.ca/mecs/harbour+centre/location.html

 

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2012 Lecture Archived Presentations Vancouver Lectures Victoria Lectures

Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology and the Future of the Academy

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Director of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language Association and Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College, in Claremont, California

who will be speaking about

Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy

***Archived webcast***

 

Vancouver

Thursday, October 4, 2012, 9:30 – 11:00am,

UBC, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Chapman Learning Commons, Dodson Room (rm. 302)

Register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4359529470

***Doors open at 9:00am for coffee and refreshments prior to the presentation***

BCRLG gratefully acknowledges COPPUL sponsorship for funding live webcast of this talk to registered COPPUL libraries

COPPUL Live webcast registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4493444012

Live webcast instructions will be sent to registrants.

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Victoria

Friday, October 5, 2012: 10:00 a.m.

UVic, McPherson Library, Room 210

Register here: http://bit.ly/PfKp9p

***Doors open at 9:30 am for coffee and refreshments prior to the presentation***

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 Abstract: Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them. Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy’s future and an argument for re-conceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological changes– especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimedia–necessary to allow academic publishing to thrive into the future. But she goes further, insisting that the key issues that must be addressed are social and institutional in origin. Confronting a change-averse academy, she insists that before we can successfully change the systems through which we disseminate research, scholars must re-evaluate their ways of working–how they research, write, and review–while administrators must reconsider the purposes of publishing and the role it plays within the university. Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick’s own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication through MediaCommons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded, her talk explores all of these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the structure of the contemporary university.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Scholarly Communication at the Modern Language Association, and is on leave from a position as Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College, in Claremont, California. She is the author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy , which was published by NYU Press in November 2011; Planned Obsolescence was released in draft form for open peer review in fall 2009. She is also the author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press (and of course available in print), and she is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons. She has published articles and notes in journals including the Journal of Electronic Publishing, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, and Cinema Journal.

For more information about the Lecture series see https://blogs.ubc.ca/bcrlglectures/ or contact BCLRG Lecture Series Coordinators:

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

 

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2012 Lecture Vancouver Lectures Victoria Lectures

Bring It On! Why the Crisis in Academic Librarianship is the Best Thing Ever…

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present

Mike Ridley

Former Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Librarian at the University of Guelph

who will be speaking about

 Bring It On!

Why the Crisis in Academic Librarianship is the Best Thing Ever and What We Should Do About It.

***Archived webcast***

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  Vancouver

Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, 9:30 – 11:30am,

SFU Vancouver, Room 2270, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street

 RSVP: [link to booking system]

***Doors open at 9:00am for coffee and refreshments prior to the presentation start at 9:30am***

Victoria

Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, 9:30 – 12 noon,
University of Victoria, Room 210, McPherson Library

 RSVP: [link to booking system]

***Doors open at 9:30 am for coffee and refreshments prior to the presentation start at 10:00am***

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Abstract: There is a crisis in academic librarianship. Or so we are being told. Frankly, I’m delighted. This is happening not a moment too soon. While there are some significant challenges in our field, the real looming crisis is that we might not grasp the tremendous opportunity before us. It’s time to escape the echo chamber and break out of the filter bubble. Our universities are at a critical stage of transformation. The challenges they face are exactly the issues academic librarians can respond to: learning outcomes, learning objectives, research productivity, self-directed learning, research accountability, critical thinking, technology leadership, and more.

Let’s forego the orthodoxies; let’s call a truce in the turf wars. Instead let’s reaffirm the values that guide us, the expertise we have, and the strategies necessary to lead organizational transformation. There has never been a more exciting time to be an academic librarian.

About the Speaker:

Until January 2012, Mike Ridley was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Librarian at the University of Guelph. Currently, on sabbatical, he is writing a book on literacy, completing a graduate degree in higher education, editing Access (the magazine of the Ontario Library Association), teaching, and consulting with a number of professional organizations.

He has been a professional librarian since 1979 working at a variety of positions at the University of Guelph, the Health Sciences Library at McMaster University, and the University of Waterloo. In 1995 he returned to the University of Guelph as the Chief Librarian and in 2004 was named the CIO.

Ridley has served as the President of the Canadian Association for Information Science, President of the Ontario Library Association, and Chair of the Ontario Council of University Libraries. He has been a member of the Board of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN),and the Canadian University Council of CIOs (CUCCIO) and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) and the Board of Governors of the University of Guelph.

He blogs at MichaelRidley.ca and can be found on Twitter @mridley. Mike is a failed rock star.

For more information about the Lecture series see https://blogs.ubc.ca/bcrlglectures/ or 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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2011 Lecture Vancouver Lectures Victoria Lectures

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 ***
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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 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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2009 Lecture Archived Presentations Vancouver Lectures Victoria Lectures

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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