Dr. Hannah Turner receives 2021 Labrecque-Lee Book Award
The prize recognizes her book “Cataloguing Culture” and its valuable insight into the history of anthropology and its complicity in the dispossession of Indigenous peoples in North America.
Dr. Cherie Givens appointed North Carolina’s first privacy officer
Givens (PhD ’09) will be tasked with managing risk related to information privacy laws and compliance regulations to allow for stronger authority for making privacy decisions.
Congratulations UBC iSchool Fall 2021 Graduates!
Students, their families, and friends, faculty and staff joined our mini-reception on Thursday, November 25, to celebrate our 2021 Fall graduates.
MLIS Alum Simon Neame recently named Dean of UW Libraries
Congratulations to former Director of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and dedicated Adjunct Instructor Simon Neame on this new position!
Three iSchool Doctoral Students accepted into the UBC Public Scholars Initiative
Congratulations to PhD students Bri Watson, Hoda Amal Hamouda and Michelle Kaczmarek on being accepted into this UBC G+PS program.
Amy Perreault receives 2021 President’s Service Award for Excellence
These awards recognize staff members who have made outstanding contributions to UBC, and who excel in their personal achievements.
Alums Allison Jones and Karen Ng receive 2021 BCLA Intellectual Freedom Award
This award recognizes their podcast “Organizing Ideas” and their effort to address intellectual freedom issues in the library and information community.
Students Isabel Carlin and Hikaru Ikeda awarded 2021 ALA Spectrum Scholarships
The Spectrum Scholarship is designed to address the specific issue of the under-representation of critically needed ethnic librarians within the profession.
Doctoral student Brian M. Watson receives LINCS Grant
The grant will support the further development of their project HistSex, an open-access resource for information on the history of sexuality.
MASLIS student Isabel Carlin receives SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship
Their project examines the imagined harp of Isabel’s Indigenous grandmother, which functions as a personal and political record in the northern Philippines.