Visiting Student Wins Grad School Medal
Jill Palzkill Woelfer, a Fulbright Canada Scholar who has chosen to spend her research year at the UBC iSchool, has been selected for the prestigious Graduate School Medal at the University of Washington, where she is working on her Ph.D. Only one student is selected each year for this award. MoreNinety Attend UBC Children's LIterature Conference
MACL and MLIS students and alumni --along with graduate students in LLED, Creative Writing and English -- organized and presented papers at Stranger in a Strange Land: Exploring Texts and Media for Young People Across Cultures and Continents, the 2012 Graduate Research Conference on Children’s Literature and Media, held April 28 at UBC Barber Learning Centre. More
Graduate Chosen for Dance Heritage Fellowship
MLIS student Jessica “Penny” Huffman, who will be conferred her degree at the May 25 convocation ceremony at UBC, has been chosen one of seven North American recipients of Dance Heritage Coalition Fellowships for 2012. As a DHC Fellow, Penny will be working with dance materials at the Museum of Performance & Design in San Francisco. More
Student Perspectives on IFLA Meeting
SLAIS MLIS students Alice MacGougan, Samantha Mills and Ehlam Zaminpaima provided student perspectives as part of the 2012 IFLA Presidential Meeting on Indigenous Knowledges, held April 12-14 at UBC. They attended all three days of the event, listening to a variety of speakers from around the world discuss the intersection of library and information science with indigenous information and materials, and summarized their learning with a short talk to conclude the conference, as well as in newsletters. More
Alumnus Honoured for Distinguished Service
SLAIS alumnus Paul Whitney, recently retired as the Vancouver City Librarian, has been chose for the 2012 Gray Campbell Distinguished Service Award by the Association of Book Publishers of B.C. The award recognizes people who have made a significant contribution to the book industry in B.C. More
