WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR
It is with great pleasure that I welcome new and returning students to the 2011-2012 academic year at SLAIS. I am looking forward to meeting you as you get to know SLAIS and UBC.
As a member of SLAIS, you belong to a group of highly qualified and motivated students with similar interests, pursuing degrees in library and information studies, archival studies, and children’s literature. I encourage you to explore the synergies between these areas, and to discover the similarities that bring these together under the SLAIS roof as well as the differences that distinguish these strands within an overall concern with how knowledge is created, shared, and preserved.
I encourage you also to explore beyond the walls of SLAIS to gain an understanding of the role and significance of library, archival and information studies within a world of rapidly changing knowledge and technology. Equally important is coming to understand different community perspectives, for example by pursuing the First Nations Curriculum Concentration at SLAIS, and through practica, work-study programs and other outreach activity.
As you begin the year, and as you make progress towards your goals and take up jobs in near future, the faculty and staff of SLAIS wish you every success. We look forward to working with each of you as you develop and follow your program of study and further your understanding of your chosen profession.
All the best for the year,
Caroline Haythornthwaite
Director and Professor
