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· SLAIS Distinguished Alumni Nominations
(August 30/10)
· 2010 Spring and Fall Newsletters
(July 5/10)
· SLAIS Celebrates 50 Years in 2011
(June 28/10)
· SLAIS New Director Announcement
(June 28/10)
· Digitization Update: National and Provincial Collaborations Symposium
(May 10/10)
· Terry Reksten Memorial Fund Deadline: June 30, 2010
(May 10/10)
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Arts and culture funding not restored in recent budget
(Mar4/10)
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AABC Newsletter: the Winter 2010
edition --
read it now! (Mar4/10)
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(Mar1/10)
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AABC responds to BCIT Archives closure
(Dec18/09)
SLAIS Distinguished Alumni Nominations
Do you know a SLAIS alumnus with exceptional accomplishments that has been an inspirational role model in the library and information or archival field? This is your opportunity to help recognize them!
The UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies Alumni Executive Committee calls for Distinguished Alumni nominations. Distinguished Alumni will be recognized at the SLAIS 50th Anniversary celebrations April 29th - 30th, 2011. Go to SLAIS Alumni website to download a nomination form:
http://www.slaisalumni.org/page/news/ezlist_item_952a2a1d-efa1-4238-9c2e-fb25d8e8afd4.aspx
Nomination form deadline is November 1st, 2010.
Please email SLAIS.Nominations@gmail.com for more information.
2010 Spring and Fall Newsletters
Please note that the Spring 2010 AABC Newsletter has been cancelled. All submissions will appear in the Fall edition, which is due out in November 2010. We are happily accepting items for the fall issue of the AABC Newsletter. The deadline for submissions for the next issue is October 15, 2010.
SLAIS Celebrates 50 Years in 2011
The University of British Columbia’s renowned School of Library, Archival & Information Studies marks its 50th anniversary in 2011, and we’re letting you know now so you can save the date. Mark your calendars for April 29-30, 2011.
We have already begun planning a number of activities designed to encourage all to celebrate from wherever they may be. These include an open house at SLAIS, giving alumni and friends a chance to meet our current faculty and students, learn about the research being done at SLAIS, and to visit our stunning new facilities in the state-of-the-art Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. There is also a grand dinner and dance, with guests of honour including a number of honoured SLAIS alumni.
For those who are unable to join us in Vancouver, the SLAIS Alumni Association is planning a Virtual Memory Wall where alumni can reconnect with friends and post memories and photos. The Alumni Association is also planning a fundraising silent auction, so consider donating an item for the auction.
Mark the dates in your calendars, and plan to join us as we celebrate our decades of achievement. Watch for more details at www.slais.ubc.ca and www.slaisalumni.org, and please share this with your local lists to ensure all SLAIS Alumni are able to join in.
SLAIS 50th Anniversary Committee
Terry Eastwood, Interim SLAIS Director
Yolanda Bustos, Dual MAS/MLIS Student
Tristan Campbell, Dual MAS/MLIS Student
Luciana Duranti, Professor, SLAIS
Corinne Durston, MLIS
Mary Grenier, SLAIS Administrator
Michelle Mallette, SLAIS Student Services Coordinator
Sarah Romkey, MAS, MLIS
SLAIS New Director Announcement
The School of Library, Archival & Information Studies at The University of British Columbia is most pleased to announce that Caroline Haythornthwaite has agreed to join UBC and to serve as Director of SLAIS for a five-year term beginning August 16, 2010.
UBC Dean of Arts Dr. Nancy Gallini expressed her confidence in Dr. Haythornthwaite’s ability “to strengthen the School by continuing to build upon its excellence in research, service, teaching, and graduate supervision.”
Dr. Haythornthwaite received a B.Sc. in Psychology at Trent University, followed by a M.A. in Psychology, plus both M.I.S. and Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Toronto. Dr. Haythornthwaite is being recruited from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she holds an appointment as a Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She is currently at the University of London as the 2009/2010 Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy, where she is researching, writing, and presenting on Learning Networks which encompasses overlapping themes of social networks, computer networks, and learning.
Prof. Terry Eastwood has kindly agreed to continue as Interim Director until Dr. Haythornthwaite’s arrival in August.
Digitization Update: National and Provincial Collaborations Symposium
Hear what new initiatives are happening at the national level with an update from Canadiana.org. Learn about collaborative digitization efforts in British Columbia following the West Beyond the West: BC Digitization Symposium.
When:
Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Where: SFU Harbour Centre Campus, Canfor Policy Room, 1600 - 515 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC
Seating is limited, so please register early!
For registration and event details
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British
Columbia Institute of Technology closes its Archives -
Read the AABC response
The archival, manuscript,
photographic and moving image materials held by BCIT's Archives and Special
Collections are important resources and deserve to be preserved, made accessible
and celebrated. Sadly, this will be lost . .
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