iSchool Community Learning Day

For iSchool students and UBC librarians only; limited to 12 people.

Location: Trail Meeting Room.

This session will: Introduce LibGuide/Research Guide curious students, staff and faculty to one another, connecting them with UBC folks who work on/with LibGuides; Establish a low-stakes professional development opportunity for UBC students, library staff and faculty to discuss LibGuides beyond the immediate work of editing LibGuides; and Amplify and celebrate LibGuide research, design, and collaboration wins within and beyond UBC to recognize exciting potentials for the medium and communities they can serve.

For iSchool instructors only; limited to 30 people.

Location: iSchool Terrace Lab.

All iSchool instructors (full time, sessional, and adjunct faculty) are invited to an instructional workshop facilitated by the Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Programming team. This workshop has been designed for instructors who are interested in joining conversations about anti-racism and looking for an entry point to their learning journey. This session introduces fundamental concepts such as power, privilege, and positionality, as well as the systemic and ideological roots and presentations racialization, racism, and racial erasure in the classroom. The session seeks to supports participants as they integrate these fundamental concepts on anti-racism into their teaching and learning practices.

For iSchool instructors only; limited to 20 people.

Location: iSchool Terrace Lab.

Have you thought about ways to integrate resources or conversations about Musqueam into your classes? Are you looking for a place to get started?

Please join us to learn about the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) - UBC Resource Curation Project, a joint project between UBC and Musqueam. The project aims to reduce the number of requests directed to Musqueam from UBC, connect people with existing resources about Musqueam, and share information about the UBC-Musqueam relationship.

We are inviting you to join us for a 90 minute in-person session where you’ll learn about the project and other UBC/Musqueam initiatives that are in development, participate in a card-sorting activity which will help in the development of an informational resource for both the UBC and Musqueam communities and have time for peer to peer sharing.

Accessible Arts and Popular Culture Workshop is generously funded by the Pop Pedagogies Award.

Accessible Arts and Popular Culture Workshop: Non-visual engagements with Ainu traditional crafts and Japanese popular culture, a knowledge sharing and touch tour experience is a redesign of a special teaching session for ASIA 590. The workshop has been redesigned for iSchool Community Learning Day, an inaugural occasion where the iSchool will be cancelling classes in favour of equity and inclusion focused events, workshops, and other engagements for students, staff, and faculty.

The workshop will include a panel of information professionals from the GLAM sector sharing their knowledge before an activity portion involving a touch tour and tactile art room distributed at multiple learning stations. The workshop speaks to how the arts and popular culture can be taught as a form of multi-sensory art appreciation, non-visual and tactile experiences made possible by libraries and museums supporting accessible engagement opportunities, with a focus on media from Japan and the idea of the universal museum.

At the end of the workshop, attendees will leave with a stronger understanding of how the arts and popular culture are not purely visual mediums but rather multi-sensory, eroding against cultural institutions that continue to argue for a world where art is forbidden to be touched.

1:30pm to 2:20pm: Panel with Kay Slater (they/them) and Dr. Akiko Takesue (she/her)

• IKBLC The Dodson Room
• For iSchool students, instructors, and staff; limited to 60 people.
• Dr. Akiko Takesue (she/her, Bishop White Committee Associate Curator of Japanese Art & Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum) will discuss Shokkan: Japanese Art Through the Sense of Touch (Title TBC), an upcoming exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum. Kay Slater (they/them, Exhibitions and Accessibility Manager at grunt gallery) will be discussing their past work such as Accessible Exhibitions, Programming and Events Project (AEPE), 2021-2024, current work with Accessible Engagement Project (2024-2027), and Tactile Mark-Making Workshops.

2:20pm to 2:30pm: Break / Move Between Rooms

2:30pm to 3:30pm: Touch Tour with Tomoko Kitayama Yen (she/her, Japanese Studies Librarian at the UBC Library Asian Library) and Chelsea Shriver (she/her, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian at the UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections) plus V. Rahbar (she/they, PhD Candidate at the UBC iSchool)

• IKBLC 256
• Limited to 20 people; please sign up for this session.
• Inspired by “UNIVERSAL MUSEUM”: Exploring the New Field of Tactile Sensation, a special exhibition held at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka in 2021. This one-hour-long touch tour will include materials from UBC Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Asian Library, and Rahbar's own collection — woodblocks used for map making, e-maki picture scrools, anime figures, attus fabric book marks, nibutani-ita carved wooden trays, and more. Attendees will explore the items through touch, leaving behind the idea that art must always be locked behind a glass case. Students interested in archives, special collections, and accessibility in cultural institutions are especially encouraged to attend.

2:30pm to 3:30pm: Tactile Art Room with V. Rahbar (she/they, PhD Candidate at the UBC iSchool) and Kay Slater (they/them, Exhibitions and Accessibility Manager at grunt gallery)

• IKBLC 240A
• Walk-in attendees are welcome. 20 people are allowed in the room at a time.
• A pop up exhibition celebrating pop culture and the arts plus literacy. This tactile art room was designed for folks to come and go as they wish, stopping in to play an accessible Pokémon video game, check out Japanese Braille manga, or feel the Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa in LEGO. Students interested in children's literature and programming for libraries are especially encouraged to attend as well as folks who just want to test their ability to win Who's That Pokémon? : Tactile Edition.

Location: Trail Meeting Room.

An introduction to the neurodiversity paradigm followed by discussion on resources, scenarios, and experiences with supporting neurodivergent colleagues and students. Short, accessible reading(s) will be assigned in advance to provide a foundation for vocabulary.

For iSchool students only; limited to 20 people.

Location: iSchool Terrace Lab.

Help collaborate in making the iSchool more accessible to current and incoming students! This workshop will include an introduction to the current version of the iSchool Accessibility Resource Guide, a centralized digital resource to be made available for iSchool students to assist in navigating resources related to access and disability, along with general resources and information specific to the iSchool, UBC, and Metro Vancouver area. Most of the workshop will include active participation with different avenues of participation in the feedback and construction of the resource guide. From your participation and feedback, we hope to make the resource guide available in the coming weeks, representing a greater range of perspectives and needs in its first iteration.