Adjunct Spotlight: Trevor Smith
Meet Trevor Smith (he/him), who is teaching LIBR 574 Project Management in Information Organizations this term! Where do you work outside of teaching at UBC iSchool, and how do you bring your professional experiences/expertise into the classroom? I am the Monograph Acquisitions Librarian at Douglas College, and formerly the Metadata Librarian as well. I also […]
Adjunct Faculty Spotlight: Dan Farrell
Meet Dan Farrell (he/him), a UBC iSchool adjunct professor who is teaching ARST 517 History of Recordkeeping this academic year during Winter Term 2 (January to April 2025)! Where do you work outside of teaching at the UBC iSchool, and how do you bring your professional experiences/expertise into the classroom? I recently retired after 15+ years […]
Welcome Dr. Alexander Ross to the UBC School of Information!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Alexander Ross will be joining the UBC School of Information in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Information Studies. Dr. Ross completed his PhD at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. He is a critical communications scholar, focusing on the political economy of communication, contingent […]
AI is complicating plagiarism. How should scientists respond?
Dr. Muhammad Abudl-Mageed comments on AI tools and plagiarism.
‘A history of ordinary people’: Forgotten documents discovered at one of Vancouver’s oldest family clan associations
Dr. Jennifer Douglas, alumna June Chow, and current iSchool students Lily Liu and Cheuk Kit (Philip) Chung‘s archival work with the Wong’s Benevolent Association’s Chinatown Building was recently featured in a Vancouver Sun article. Read the full article on the Vancouver Sun website.
