Redesigning the Bachelor of Media Studies experience
Read all about Dr. Richard Arias-Hernandez’s exciting work in the Bachelor of Media Studies curriculum renewal and the redesigning project. The newly redesigned program will begin in September 2023 and is set to have a positive impact on the student experience, by creating a more unified and integrated learning experience. Read more about this exciting […]
INSIGHTS Newsletter
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the INSIGHTS Newsletter is now available on our website. Download your digital copy here.
Building a User Experience Concentration in Information: Curriculum, Learning Spaces, and Community Engaged Learning
In this colloquium, Dr. Olivier St-Cyr will outline his work and research around building a UX concentration in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto.
Storytime Skills Workshop Series 2022
Learn more about one of the fundamental aspects of Children’s Librarianship in this workshop series facilitated by UBC iSchool lecturer Dr. Tess Prendergast.
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.
Dr. Julia Bullard Receives ISKO 2022 Best Paper Award
Her paper “Confusing, inaccurate, and just goofy: author assessments of ‘Indians of North America’ cataloguing” was presented at the ISKO conference in June 2022.
Libraries in US and Canada Are Changing How They Refer to Indigenous Peoples
Dr. Julia Bullard talks about the changes the Library of Congress in the United States and Library and Archives Canada are introducing on how they refer to Indigenous Peoples.
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 […]
BC Libraries Climate Action Lunch & Learn
BC Libraries Climate Action Update Webinar Monday, July 25 12:00-1:00 p.m. (Pacific time) Online This lunch hour event will inspire you with the creativity, courage, and strategic thinking of your colleagues. Hear from librarians across the province about a range of climate action initiatives being planned. In particular, learn more about the upcoming Climate Action […]
Dr. Heather O’Brien Receives ASIS&T Research in Information Science Award
The award recognizes how her research has transformed the field of information science through meticulously researched and widely influential scholarship.