UBC Library Journal Club

• Interested in hearing what research is occurring at other academic institutions?

• Want to learn about the latest best practices in instruction, library space and technology?

• Curious about the global efforts of librarians and information professionals?

The Journal Club invites you to another Conference Round-up.  This event will highlight what librarians/librarystaff have learned at conferences they have attend this year.

The volunteers and conferences to be shared include:

Shannon Simpson – Access 2011
Teresa Lee – Charleston
Jo Anne Newyear Ramirez – CRKN AGM
Allan Cho – Internet Librarian
Lea Starr – IFLA
Manuela Boscenco – Academic Libraries Fundraising Conference
Hilde Colenbrander – Innovations in Scholarly Communications

Join us and learn more about current practices within our field.

Date: November 25, 2011
Time: 3-4:30 pm
Location: Lillooet Room, IKBLC
Registration: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2792

Join your colleagues in an conversation on academic libraries,  knowledge exchange and community engagement.  In this session we will discuss how the library can position itself as a valuable partner in helping UBC reach out beyond campus, as well as the opportunities for the library to develop new partnerships in the community.   Please join Simon Neame, members of the IKLBC Programming Team and others including Tara Stephens, Jessica Woolman and Shirin Eshghi for this fun discussion on community engagement work in an academic library setting.

To inspire discussion, please read  “Knowledge exchange and community engagement: an academic library perspective (Sidorko and Yang, 2011). This short article documents various community engagement initiatives developed out of the Universities of Hong Kong Libraries.

Other featured readings:

UBC Community Engagement Discussion Paper

When: Friday, September 23 from 2-3 PM
Where: RM 301-Lillooet Room
Register: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2646

Notes from the event can be found here:  Journal Club Notes IKB.

Join us for a lively discussion on the topic of embedded librarianship. We will start with a panel discussion featuring several UBC librarians currently engaged in “embedded” activities.

To prepare for this event we’d like to invite you to read the following provocative article: Embedded Librarianship Is Job One: Building on Instructional Synergies.

Additional interesting reading:

• Is Embedded Librarianship Right for your Institution?
• Embedded Reference to Embedded Librarianship: 6 Years at the University of Calgary

When: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 at 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Where: RM 302-Dodson Room
Register: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2423

It has been a busy semester but now it’s time to relax (a little) and meet to discuss a new topic for journal club.

For the coming journal club we will be discussing the Horizon Report 2011.  “Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years.”
The full report can be found here: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122

For this journal club session, we will be talking about the following trends:

* One Year or Less: Electronic Books – Lead by Sheryl Adam, HSS
* One Year or Less: Mobiles  – Lead by Shawnna Parlongo, Distance Learning Support Librarian
* Two to Three Years: Game-Based Learning – Lead by Erin Fields, HSS

Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011
Time: 2-3pm
Location: Dodson Room, Chapman Learning Commons

Please register at: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/2003

flickr photo by draggin

The next journal club will be discussing the Ithakas+R 2009 Faculty Survey “Key Strategic Insights for Libraries, Publishers and Societies.”

“The Ithaka S+R Faculty Surveys provide a regular examination of key strategic issues facing academic information services providers. Conducted every three years since 2000, these surveys examine a broad sweep of issues affecting academic libraries, publishers, and scholarly societies, among others, to help them serve the changing needs of their faculty constituents.”

We will be focusing on Chapter 1 “Discovery and the Evolving Role of the Library.”  Come prepared to discuss!

Date: Thursday, June 24, 2-3pm
Facilitator: Erin Fields
Location: Dodson Room, Barber Center

Past Ithaka S+R reports can be found at Ithaka.

Please register for this here – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1112

Next Monday, Journal Club and RIC have teamed up to focus on our conferences’ experiences.
We are planning a series of short reflections on the things our librarians have learned or presented at last year conferences. We have eight presenters for this session:

• Eugene Barsky – m-libraries
• Katherine Miller – ACRL
• Joy Kirchner – ALA
• Jing Liu – Summer Institute for Chinese Studies Librarians and International Conference on the Development of Subject Librarianship and Personal Librarianship
• Jo-Anne Naslund – International Reading Association Conference, ACRL conference, Fast Forward and BCLA
• Sarah Romkey – digital humanities institute
• Trish Rosseel – Canadian e-Learning Conference
• Sally Taylor – eLearning conference

Please join us for this session and we anticipate lively discussion about what we learned and presented at those conferences…

When: Monday, July 27th, 2009 at 2:00PM – 4:00PM
Where: RM 302-Dodson Room
Register: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/89

Many thanks

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There are several ways you  can be in the UBC Library Journal Club.

• Attend the Library Journal Club meetings as a participant.
• Notify Erin Fields of potential discussion topics, articles, or reports.
• Offer to facilitate a session.
• Provide a short presentation on an area of study, research, or workshop that you have either attended or facilitated.

Facilitating a Session

To facilitate a session, read the general format of the meetings at What to Expect at a Meeting and contact Erin Fields with a brief outline of your session and details of a date and time that works with your schedule.

Presenting for the Journal Club

The Journal Club has often accepted requests from individuals for larger presentations and panels on topics.  While the main focus of the Journal Club will be evaluating research in librarianship, presentations can be a part of the meetings if they are shorter in length and offer the attendees a chance to discuss/evaluate.  To volunteer a presentation for the Journal Club, please contact Erin Fields.

flickr photo by Leo Reynolds

The Journal Club Format

The general format of the UBC Library Journal Club is as follows:

• A reading, facilitator, and date for the Journal Club will be announced two weeks prior to the meeting.
• The facilitator will be responsible for introducing the article.  The introduction will be up to 15 minutes.
• The facilitator will offer a few conversation points to begin the discussion.
• Depending on the size of the group, the attendees will be split into groups to discuss the reading for 20 minutes.
• The facilitator will bring the groups back together to discuss the ideas that came out of the small group work.

Place Your Hand Over Your Heart – The UBC Library Journal Club Attendees Motto

Remember the Boy Scouts motto?   Be prepared.  Well, think of this as our unofficial motto.

The journal club is based on the idea of critical discussion and interaction with topics that are important to librarianship.  To get the most out of the experience, we need you to prepare for the meetings by reading the material, thinking critically about the content, and a willingness to share your ideas with your colleagues.

While there will be no badges given out for your contribution, please consider posting your ideas and thoughts to the blog.  I hope the blog can also become a place for critical discussion.  If you can’t make it to the Journal Club meeting, post some ideas you have in the blog about the topic.  If you were at the meeting and believed the conversation should be highlighted or you were unable to express a point of view, think of the blog as a continuation of the discussion.