UBC Library Journal Club

Too frequently our library’s professional folks fail to find time to discuss, as a group, library issues that do not impact or day-to-day operation and routine. We are absorbed in completing the immediate daily tasks and assigned duties and don’t seem to find time to read (let alone discuss and analyze) our professional literature.

Too bad, since the library world is constantly evolving and things do change.

This journal club, initiated by a group of librarians in the University of British Columbia library in Vancouver, Canada is created to build a forum for relaxed dialogue and professional discourse around academic libraries related topics. The meetings are organized once a month about a topic of discussion, say “the future of a catalogue”.

We want to gather, to share, to discuss, to problem solve, to learn and of course to grow professionally. Sessions will be short – 1 hour, and we invite everybody from the UBC library community to join. We would also be happy to open the floor to additional libraries in the Lower Mainland.

We are hoping that this forum would lead to new ideas and new projects in our system.

Stay tuned for the precise dates, times, locations, and topics!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Erin Fields (Humanities & Social Sciences Librarian).

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