An article on the first B.C. Digitization Symposium, held recently at UBC, appears in the BCLA Browser (this is the new open access newsletter from the British Columbia Library Association).

You can view the article here:

http://bclabrowser.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/6/19

From January 16, 2009 to January 26, two students are camping in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre foyer to raise support, awareness and funds for global literacy.

The UBC students are participating as part of Live-in for Literacy 2009, a project that involves university students across Canada living in libraries. The aim is to raise funds to construct libraries in India.

UBC is the only university in Western Canada to take part in the event, and UBC Library has donated $1,000 to the cause.

You can view the press release here:

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/media/releases/2009/mr-09-008.html

And you can view a recent story in the Vancouver Sun here:

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=a8f66dc8-e12f-4ed3-ab64-e4c54a3b917b

UBC Library and the Chung Collection are featured in an article on Vancouver’s book culture in the January 2009 issue of Fine Books & Collections magazine.

The article is by Nicholas Basbanes, an author who recently read and spoke at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

You can view the piece here:

http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/200901/vancouver-1.phtml

UBC Librarian Sheryl Adam is among those quoted in an article about the Digital Tattoo program (http://digitaltattoo.ubc.ca).

You can view the article here:

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081223.wtattoo24/BNStory/National

A new B.C. electronic resource that involves support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre has launched.

The British Colonist Digitization project is a joint venture with the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper and the University of Victoria Library, with support from other organizations including the Learning Centre. The project involves the digitization of issues of the British Colonist newspaper (a precursor to the Times Colonist).

Articles on the project are featured in the Victoria Times Colonist and the Globe and Mail. You can view the articles here:

http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1059621

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081217.BCHAWTHORN17/TPStory/TPNational/BritishColumbia/

And here is a link to the project website’s search page:

http://www.britishcolonist.ca

Eugene Barsky and Kevin Lindstrom – two Science and Engineering librarians at UBC Library – have published an article entitled “Podcasting the Sciences: A Practical Overview.” The article appears in Issues in Science & Techology Leadership.

You can view the article here:

http://www.istl.org/08-fall/article7.html

The Fall/Winter 2008/09 issue of Friends, UBC Library’s newsletter, is now available.

You can view a PDF of the issue here:

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Welcome to Insight, UBC Library’s newsletter for faculty. You can view a PDF of Insight here:

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This free exhibition of photographic works is selected from Intermediate and Advanced Photography classes from the Visual Art program in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at UBC. These works, done in response to course assignments or as self-directed projects, reflect a variety of approaches and ideas about the medium.

Facts and Fictions is held at the Sultan and Sultana Vicwood Kee Ting Chong Very Silent Study Room, Room #112, 1st floor Koerner Library, 1958 Main Mall, UBC.

The opening is on Tuesday November 18 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and the show runs from Wednesday, November 19 through Friday, November 21. Opening hours are noon to 5 p.m.

Read about the latest developments at UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in the Fall 2008 issue of the CPSLD Newsletter – a publication from the Council of Post Secondary Library Directors, British Columbia.

You can view the newsletter here (UBC news begins on page 17):

http://www.cpsld.ca/Newsletter/Newsletter%20Vol.19%20No.2%20Fall%202008