A double-page spread about UBC Library Vault appears on pages 28 and 29 of the spring 2009 issue of UBC’s Trek magazine. A Vault image also appears on the inside front cover.

You can view a PDF of Trek here:

http://www.alumni.ubc.ca/files/pdf/trekmagazine/trek23-spring2009.pdf

The Bella Coola Valley Museum has completed its digital heritage project about logging in the region. This project was supported in part by the B.C. History Digitization Program, an initative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

You can find out more about the Bella Coola project here:

http://www.bellacoolamuseum.ca/en/digital_heritage/logging/index.php

The Bill Silver Digital Newspaper Archive has officially opened at the Vanderhoof Public Library. This program received support from the B.C. History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

 You can read about the Bill Silver Archive in the Omineca Express: http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/ominecaexpress/news/42147097.html

The Northern B.C. Archives & Special Collections at the University of Northern British Columbia has digitized more than 1,700 historical images of exploration in northern B.C. This project received support from the B.C. History Digitization Program, which was launched by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

You can find out more about the project here: http://library.unbc.ca/UNBCArchives/nexplore/northernexplorations1.html

A digitization project that has been supported by the B.C. History Digitization Program – which was launched by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – is featured in the Terrace Standard and Prince George Citizen newspapers.

You can view the articles here: http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/terracestandard/news/41489462.html

http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20090322182721/local/news/historical-images-online-at-unbc.html

Dean Giustini of UBC Library’s Biomedical Branch Library has been named as a 2009 Mover & Shaker (Tech Evangelist) by Library Journal magazine, which states that “Together, these individuals comprise the coming generation of library leadership.”

You can view the article on Dean here: www.libraryjournal.com/MS2009Inductee/2140335997.html

The recent Live in for Literacy event, held at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and supported by UBC Library, is featured in The Thunderbird – the student publication of UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism.

You can view the article here:

http://thethunderbird.ca/2009/03/11/students-set-up-camp-for-literacy/

The Spring 2009 issue of Connects, the newsletter of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, is now available. You can view a PDF of Connects here: connects-spring-2009

A new artwork that grapples with the concept of boredom has been installed on the third floor (main floor) of Koerner Library. The piece, entitled Threshold, (cont.), is a video installation by Vancouver artist Lorna Brown that examines how writers, thinkers and philosophers have dealt with the topic of boredom.

Placed in the context of a university library where the published results of research are stored and accessed through different media, Threshold (cont.) raises questions about how knowledge is circulated, the processes of engaged learning, and the weariness or lack of interest that can result from information overload.

For more information on the installation, please visit http://belkin.ubc.ca/current (make sure to scroll down the screen).

Brown, an award-winning artist, writer and curator, has exhibited her work nationally and internationally since 1984. She has taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design (now Emily Carr University) and at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.

Brown was the curator for Group Search: art in the library, a series of artists’ projects at the Vancouver Public Library from 2006 to 2008. She is now developing the Centre for Art in Public Spaces at Langara College.

This project is a collaboration of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and Walter C. Koerner Library at UBC, and has been made possible by the generous support of the Audain Foundation.

The February 2009 issue of e-Strategy, UBC IT’s newsletter, features a story on UBC Library’s database walk project.

You can view the article here:

http://update.estrategy.ubc.ca/2009/02/03/database-walk-ubc-library