Orange Shirt Day 2022
Commemorate Orange Shirt Day and learn about the Indian residential school system. Learn more about events, information and resources at UBC.
Bringing the Library to the Community
MLIS student Hannah Stuparyk talks about her unique Arts Co-Op experience as a book bike pilot for the Camrose Public Library.
UBC iSchool Welcomes Visiting Professor Olivier St-Cyr
Dr. Olivier St-Cyr will be joining the iSchool as a Visiting Associate Professor of Teaching for the 2022/23 academic year.
UBC Library Mentorship Program
UBC Library has developed a mentorship program by matching UBC librarians and archivists with UBC iSchool students. Apply by September 30 for the 2022/2023 cohort.
Infographics as a Tool for Knowledge Mobilization and Exchange
MLIS graduate Shannon Murray collaborated with STOREE and UBC Learning Exchange to create an Infographics Toolkit to help researchers learn more about infographic creation.
Coming Out of Chaos: A Vancouver Dance Story
This exhibit, produced by Karen Jamieson Dance, was researched and co-written by MASLIS students Emma Metcalfe Hurst and Charlotte Leonard.
INFO Courses for Graduate Students
In 2021-22, the School of Information launched a new Minor in Informatics, which expanded the school’s teaching to the undergraduate level. The course offering in 2022-23 includes a wide range of topics, including Media Design, Cultural Informatics and Information and Data Design. UBC iSchool students can take up to two upper-level undergraduate courses (i.e. […]
TURJUMAN: A Public Toolkit for Neural Arabic Machine Translation
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed along with Postdoctoral fellows Dr. El Moatez Billah Nagoudi and Dr. AbdelRahim Elmadany have received the Best Paper Award for their work “TURJUMAN: A Public Toolkit for Neural Arabic Machine Translation“. The paper was published in the 5th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and […]
How UBC Library Is Rethinking Problematic Indigenous Representations in Children’s Literature
Learn how UBC Education Library, Xwi7xwa Library and UBC Okanagan Library found a way to contextualize problematic books from the children’s picture book collections.