Celebrate Learning is a week-long initiative held each autumn. The event seeks to honour and celebrate teaching and learning across UBC Vancouver, and to highlight and promote student learning and development opportunities.

Some Celebrate Learning Week trivia… Did you know?

• In 2008, UBC community organized more than 60 events from a concert series by the School of Music to a symposium on UBC’s participation during the Beijing Summer Olympics.
• In 2009, there were almost 70 events submitted for Celebrate Learning. There were panel discussions on e-portfolios, a student-led workshops on resume building, a special lecture by an award winning documentary filmmaker just to name a few.
• In 2010, a student workshop called, “cIRcle and the Student Experience: How Students can use UBC’s Information Repository to advance their Academic Careers” will be presented on Friday, October 29th, 1:30PM – 2:30PM, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (3rd Floor). See below cIRcle student workshop description:

“Curious about how to get started with cIRcle? Meghan Radomske, Master of Library and Information Studies Candidate and cIRcle Student Librarian, will discuss UBC’s digital repository, cIRcle, and the benefits it offers students in particular. cIRcle welcomes high quality scholarly contributions from both graduate and undergraduate students—enabling them to showcase their work and establish their academic online identities. If you are a student interested in submitting non-thesis work to cIRcle, join us on Friday, October 29th to discuss the opportunities cIRcle provides you!”

For more information about these and other Celebrate Learning Week 2010 events, check out the complete 2010 Celebrate Learning Schedule. Don’t miss out on learning something new and exciting during this special week — no doubt you’ll be glad you did!

Top image is courtesy of Flickr: UBC Library Graphics Photostream.  Bottom image and some of the above excerpt text is courtesy of Celebrate Learning Week 2010 website – http://celebratelearning.ubc.ca/.

OA Sessions* for Today – Friday, October 22nd:

KEYNOTE EVENT:

The Case for Open Data and eScience – Establishing a University Data Management Program at Johns Hopkins (A Joint Open Access Week/BC Research Libraries Group Lecture Series Event) @ 9:30-11:00am (Location: Dodson Room, IKBLC)

Student Advocacy for Open Access at UBC and Beyond @ 1:00-2:00pm

Closing Reception & Remarks by David Farrar, Provost and Vice President Academic, UBC @ 2:00-3:30pm

Click here to see OA Week schedule at UBC Vancouver & UBC Okanagan.

Enjoyed the OA sessions at UBC? We’d like to hear from you at ubc-oaweek@interchange.ubc.ca.

* Unless otherwise noted, all OA sessions held at UBC Vancouver are located in the Lillooet Room – 3rd floor – Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

OA Sessions* for Today – Thursday, October 21st:

What Bill C-32 Means to Educators: What Can We Do? @ 10:30am-12:00pm

Digital Tattoo Student Workshop: Managing Your Rights as an Information Creator and Consumer @ 1:30-3:00pm

Coming out of your silo: Leveraging cIRcle to increase your academic impact @ 3:00-4:30pm

Click here to see OA Week schedule at UBC Vancouver & UBC Okanagan.

Enjoying the OA sessions at UBC so far?  If so, email us at ubc-oaweek@interchange.ubc.ca.

* Unless otherwise noted, all OA sessions held at UBC Vancouver are located in the Lillooet Room – 3rd floor – Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

OA Sessions* for Today – Wednesday, October 20th:

Workshop on Managing Your Copyright & Author Rights @ 1:30-3:00pm

Open Access and the Opportunity for Universities @ 3:00-4:00pm

Scholarly Rights and Responsibilities in the Digital Age @ 4:00-5:30pm

Click here to see OA Week schedule at UBC Vancouver & UBC Okanagan.

Enjoying the OA sessions at UBC so far?  If so, email us at ubc-oaweek@interchange.ubc.ca.

* Unless otherwise noted, all OA sessions held at UBC Vancouver are located in the Lillooet Room – 3rd floor – Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

OA Sessions* for Today – Tuesday, October 19th:

An Open Platform: Using the UBC Wiki as a Collaborative Tool and Information Repository @ 10:00-11:00am

Exploring Open Source Options for Records Management @ 11:00am-12:00pm

Choosing to be an Open Access Journal @ 2:00-3:30pm

Click here to see OA Week schedule at UBC Vancouver & UBC Okanagan.

* Unless otherwise noted, all OA sessions held at UBC Vancouver are located in the Lillooet Room – 3rd floor – Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

OA Sessions* for Today – Monday, October 18th:

Funding Agency Panel: Opening up Access** @ 9:00-10:30am

Opening Remarks @ 1:30-1:45pm

Intro. to Open Access and Connected Open Movements @ 1:45-2:00pm

Developing the Cycling Route Planner @ 2:00-2:30pm

Open Research Data @ 2:30-3:30pm

Click here to see OA Week schedule at UBC Vancouver & UBC Okanagan.

* Unless otherwise noted, all OA sessions held at UBC Vancouver are located in the Lillooet Room – 3rd floor – Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

** Connect from your own computer or come to the free live webcast in Woodward Library, McKechnie Room.

The Health Advocate Role: Preparing Future Physicians for Socially Responsive Practice is now available in cIRcle, UBC’s digital repository!

Health advocacy represents an opportunity for physicians and physicians-in-training to respond appropriately to the social determinants of health, health care inequities, and the needs of underserved populations. To better prepare physicians-in-training, there is a need to identify tangible ways of incorporating health advocacy into medical curriculum.

The purpose of this e-booklet is to:

• Highlight the activities of health advocate ‘champions’, Vanessa Brcic, Jocelyn Chase, Healthy Young Minds, Tracy Monk, Davedeep Sohi, and Brian Westerberg

• Discuss the social determinants of health and provide case examples on health advocacy

• Identify relevant literature on health advocacy, teaching approaches, and existing program

To access, download, and/or create a permanent link to this e-booklet on your blog or website, visit cIRcle at: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28934.

For any additional information about this e-booklet and other similar teaching resources from the Faculty of Medicine, visit the Office for Faculty Development.

Above logo is courtesy of the Department of Family Practice – Faculty of Medicine – at UBC.

[Photo of: Black bears utilizing reclaimed mine area.]

A new offering from UBC Library at the University of British Columbia enables users to access decades of valuable information on mine reclamation for free.

Each year, the British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium is presented by the B.C. Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation (TRCR). This first symposium was held in 1977 as a response to a need in the province for enhanced government and industry communications in the area of environmental protection and reclamation associated with mining.

Proceedings of these symposia, covering not only B.C., but also Canadian and worldwide mines, are a valuable source of information on this important topic. Now, thanks to a successful collaboration between UBC Library and the TRCR, all conference papers – more than 600, dating from 1977 to the present – are available for free online.

The papers are hosted by cIRcle, UBC’s digital repository, which serves as an archive of UBC’s intellectual output. They can be found and searched at https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/6934.

The proceedings have proven to be a big draw. For example, the most popular paper – “Water management of the Steep Rock Iron Mines at Atikokan, Ontario during construction, operations, and after mine abandonment,” found at https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/10657 – has been viewed and downloaded hundreds of times, mainly by users in the U.S. and Canada, but also by those from the U.K., Portugal, China, India , Finland and Norway.

This feature is a valuable resource for anyone in the mining and related industries who is involved with reclamation. Moreover, all recent UBC dissertations, including those related to mining, are available in cIRcle for free and can be found at https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/123456789/2.

The Northern Miner newspaper recently published a story on the mining reclamation symposia, cIRcle and UBC Library.

For more information, please contact Eugene Barsky, Science and Engineering Librarian, at eugene.barsky@ubc.ca.

Above Image Courtesy of: B.C. Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation Photo Gallery

Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of UBC Library News from UBC Library News blog – https://blogs.ubc.ca/librarynews/2010/10/04/mining-for-information/