Funding Opportunity for Research on Scholarly Communications

With funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Pan-Canadian Knowledge Access Initiative, Coalition Publica is launching a scholarship program for undergraduate and graduate students. Read the full announcement on the Coalition Publica website, or continue below for more details. The scholarship program supports research projects that: study the scholarly communication and […]

2022 Call for Scholarly Journals to Join the Érudit Dissemination Platform

      Recognizing the ongoing pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic on the scholarly journal community, Érudit has decided to extend the call for applications until Sunday, 25 April 2021. Érudit is launching a call for applications for scholarly journals wishing to be disseminated on its platform as of January 2022. The journal should  submit […]

Point Grey’s original student hang-out – The Dolphins

[This is an expanded version of an article originally published in Alumni UBC’s Grad Gazette in 2010] Before The Pit, the Gallery Lounge, Koerner’s Pub, or any of the other popular student retreats on or around the UBC campus… there was The Dolphin. The Dolphin Tea House was located on Marine Drive, across from what […]

Working as an Indigenous Work Learn Student at the UBC Archives

[The following was written by Kai Geddes, currently working for the UBC Archives in the Work Learn student employee programme] While continuing my academic career at the University of British Columbia (UBC) as a Masters in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) graduate student in September of 2019, from Vancouver Island University (VIU), I had the […]

The early Chinese-Canadian presence at UBC

One of the projects undertaken by our colleagues at UBC Rare Books and Special Collections during the COVID-19 shut-down of on-campus operations  has been to develop a new on-line guide to Chinese-Canadian materials in their collections.  One of the subjects being researched for this project was the identity of the first Chinese-Canadian graduate of UBC. […]

An Archival Science student jumps at an opportunity

[The following was written by Manfred Nissley, currently working for the UBC Archives in the Work Learn student employee programme] A year after starting at the University of British Columbia as an archival science and library science student, a work-learn position opened up in University Archives. I applied for this position because I saw it […]

Your Interdisciplinary Web Archive Collaboration

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present “Your Interdisciplinary Web Archive Collaboration” Nick Ruest Digital Assets Librarian, York University Co-Principal Investigator, “The Archives Unleashed Project” (Andrew. W. Mellon Foundation-funded) Co-Principal Investigator, “A Longitudinal Analysis of the Canadian World Wide Web as a Historical Resource, 1996-2014” (SSHRC grant) Co-Principal Investigator, “Research Platforms and Portals […]

Surveying the Landscape: Research Data Management, Data Governance and Ethics

The BC Research Libraries Group is proud to present “Surveying the Landscape: Research Data Management, Data Governance and Ethics” Dr. Jacqueline Quinless CLIR Data Fellow at University of Victoria McPherson Library Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology Time: Thursday, January 25, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm Location: University of Victoria McPherson Library / Mearns Center for Learning, Digital […]

Rick Anderson Lectures : UVic and SFU — Open Access Week 2016

In celebration of Open Access Week 2016 The BC Research Libraries Group is Proud to Present: Rick Anderson — President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing &  Associate Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication at the University of Utah who will speak about What Do We Want? (We’re Not Sure!) When Do We Want It? […]

What is the Value of Libraries? A panel discussion at the ARL/CARL joint meeting, April 26-28, 2016.

ARL & CARL are proud to present What is the Value of Libraries?  Wednesday, April 27, 2016  3:00 – 4:30pm Grand Ballroom A & B, Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel This special panel presentation is part of a three day joint meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL). The British Columbia Research […]