Month: September 2011

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UBC/Scarfe Breastfeeding-friendly spaces

Look for this logo for breastfeeding spaces on campus

I was very pleased to receive this announcement regarding breastfeeding spaces & change tables in Scarfe. As many graduate students have children, I feel that this is a small step in recognizing the reality that women can and are both mothers & students. Thank you!

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A recent initiative has created Breastfeeding friendly spaces at UBC (http://www.hr.ubc.ca/health/healthy-ubc-initiatives/breastfeeding-friendly-spaces/)

 In the Scarfe building,  two rooms, Scarfe 1009 and 5A, have been made available for this initiative, both in CMS space.

In addition, a change table has been installed in the washroom in Scarfe 1013.

If you get anyone looking for such space, please refer them to CMS staff.

Thanks,

Michael

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Michael Shepard

IT Support, Manager Audio-Visual

Faculty of Education Computing & Media Services University of British Columbia

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e-book explorations

At our recent peer advising meeting we started chatting about electronic books, and thought we’d open up the discussion to all the e-geeks out there. What’s your favourite way to read articles and e-books: Kindle, ipad, Kobos…? Do you know about Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/)? What about: http://calibre-ebook.com/ (open source e-book software for Mac, PC, Linux)?
This is an exciting world as we move beyond paper-based books and print journals. But what are the costs (social, environmental, economic) of these technologies? The benefits?
Please share your thoughts here. If there’s enough interest, we may even organize a little seminar to take a look at these technologies in more depth.
Cheers,
The NEW grad advising team: James, Anita, Sarah, Jung, and (not so new) Julia

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