Call for applications: UBC iSchool Peer Technology Advisors
The Peer Technology Advisors facilitate the Tech in the Core workshops and provide individualized support to all iSchool students using technology in their courses.
Expanding the “COVID-19 Pandemic and the University of British Columbia” Web Archive
MLIS student Sarah Gallagher shares their experience working with the Digitization Centre to expand the COVID-19 Pandemic and the UBC Web Archive.
UBC iSchool Virtual Town Hall
Students are invited to join this student-focused Town Hall to engage in conversation with faculty, staff and LASSA presidents and address any questions or concerns.
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.
INSIGHTS Newsletter Vol. 3
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the INSIGHTS Newsletter is now available on our website. Download your digital copy here.
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.
Call for Applications: Teaching Assistant for INFO 250
UBC iSchool is looking for a Graduate Teaching Assistant for INFO 250: Networks, Crowds, and Communities in 2022 Winter Term 2. The application deadline is Thursday, July 15.
MLIS alumna Rina Hadziev will be BCLA’s next Executive Director
Rina Hadziev (MLIS ’00) will begin her new role as Executive Director for the British Columbia Library Association on July 19, 2021.
Statement on the Discovery of Unmarked Graves at Marieval Residential School
Read the full UBC School of Information on the Discovery of Unmarked Graves at Marieval Residential School
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.