UBC School of Information

We are hiring a Research Associate in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing!

🔗Full job posting: https://ischool.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/research-associate-machine-learning-and-natural-language-processing/

💫 WE ARE HIRING: Blockchain@UBC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Blockchain@UBC is seeking a postdoctoral research fellow for a one-year appointment to begin in September or October 2024 (the precise start date can be negotiated), renewable for an additional year subject to funding, whose research focuses on the intersection of blockchain technology and supply or value chains.

Deadline to apply is August 15, 2024.

🔗Full job posting and application details: https://ischool.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/postdoctoral-research-fellow-blockchain-technology-and-supply-value-chains/

The UBC School of Information welcomes Dr. Luanne Sinnamon as Director and Informatics Program Chair, as of July 1, 2024. This is Dr. Sinnamon’s second term as Director, having previously served from 2015-2020.

In other leadership roles for 2024-2025, we welcome Dr. Richard Arias-Hernández as MLIS Program Chair. Continuing in their roles are Dr. Victoria Lemieux as MAS Program Chair, Dr. Eric Meyers as Graduate Advisor, Dr. Lisa Nathan as PhD Program Chair, and Dr. Emily Pohl-Weary (Creative Writing) as MACL Program Chair.

Congratulations to Dr. Julia Bullard and B. M. Watson for their SSHRC Partnership Development Grant!

🔗 Read the story:

Eight Arts faculty receive funding from SSHRC grants competition - Faculty of Arts The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council has awarded funding to eight Faculty of Arts researchers in the Partnership Grants and Partnership Development Grants competition.

🏖️ Everyone is welcome to join us for the School of Information Great Canadian Beach and Park Cleanup Party!

🏆 Every piece of trash we pick up helps to clean up our communities, and there will be prizes for those who collect the most pieces over all the sessions.

📅 May 16 (Jericho Beach East), June 7 (Kitsilano Beach), July 18 (Spanish Banks), August 15 (Jericho Beach West).

🔗Register: https://ischool.ubc.ca/news/school-of-information-great-canadian-beach-park-cleanup-party-2024/

Thank you to UBC Workplace Sustainability and UBC School of Information for making this possible.

Congratulations to UBC iSchool's PhD Student, Rodrigo Dos Santos, for receiving funding through UBC's Community-University Engagement Support Fund!

Read the article to learn more about Rodrigo's project, Tending Together, with community partner Hives for Humanity.

Congratulations to the 8 Arts departments and 2 students that have received funding as part of UBC’s Community-University Engagement Support Fund.

Department recipients: African Studies Minor Program, UBC Anthropology Department, UBC Sociology, School of Social Work, Centre for Migration Studies, Vancouver School of Economics at UBC, The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice UBC, UBC School of Information

Learn more about how these community-university partnerships are addressing priority issues throughout the province: https://communityengagement.ubc.ca/news/2023-24-community-university-engagement-support-fund-recipients/

📚Come visit our booth next week at the 2024 BC Library Conference! We'll be there to answer questions and chat.

Also, check out the conference schedule to see the amazing sessions happening on both days - do you spot any UBC iSchool names?
🔗https://pheedloop.com/bcla2024/site/schedule/

⌚ We only need 24 hours to move the world forward! On UBC Giving Day, April 4, give what you can towards the causes you believe in most.
👉 Swipe to see which UBC School of Information funds we are highlighting to help support the next generation of UBC iSchool students and faculty.

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💡iSchool Colloquium Series: Safeguarding Scholarly Integrity: the role of critical information literacy, with Dr. Syeda Hina Shahid💡
🗓️ Thursday April 11, 12pm to 1pm
📍 Pena Room (301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
🔗 More info and to register: https://ischool.cms.arts.ubc.ca/?p=46783

For the next lecture in our colloquium series, Dr. Syeda Hina Shahid will draw upon her postdoctoral research project with Dr. Luanne Sinnamon on scholarly misconduct practices and critical information literacy.

Registration is recommended but not required.

Congratulations to Dr. Heather O'Brien!

Congratulations to Drs. Kyle Frackman, Ervin Malakaj (Dept. of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, UBC), Sara Shneiderman (UBC Anthropology Department), Christopher B. Patterson (The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice UBC), Yue Qian (UBC Sociology), Heather O'Brien (UBC School of Information), Joelle LeMoult, Jeremy C. Biesanz (UBC Department of Psychology), and Stefan Dollinger (UBC Department of English Language & Literatures), the nine members of the Faculty of Arts who have been awarded the prestigious 2023/24 Killam Research Fellowship and Prizes. Read more about the awardees and their research: https://l8r.it/WhA5

💡iSchool Colloquium Series: Conceptualisations of Safe Spaces for LGBTQIA+ folk in libraries, with Dr. Cameron Pierson💡
🗓️Thursday March 28, 12pm to 1pm
📍 iSchool Terrace Lab
🔗https://ischool.ubc.ca/events/event/conceptualisations-of-safe-spaces-for-lgbtqia-folk-in-libraries/

For the next lecture in our colloquium series, Dr. Cameron Pierson (UBC School of Information) will provide preliminary findings of a current study examining how the LIS scholarly and practitioner literature conceptualise ‘safe spaces’ though discourse and documented strategies, with focus on libraries in digital transformation. It typologizes these conceptualisations and examines perceived responsibilities amongst practitioners in curating of safe spaces, the approaches practitioners utilise, and the sociotechnical factors influencing their choices. Implications for safe space cultivation in hybrid practice are discussed.

📢 We are hiring!

Are you an innovative scholar and educator, with direct experience contributing to Indigenous information initiatives? Apply today to join the UBC iSchool faculty as an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Information Studies (Research Stream).

Deadline to apply is April 15, 2024.
🔗More info: https://ischool.cms.arts.ubc.ca/?p=46599

💡iSchool Colloquium Series: Using Large Language Models to Assess Students and Code Qualitative Data, with Dr. Ryan Baker💡
📆 Monday, February 26, from 12pm to 1:30pm
📍 Online on Zoom, with in-person viewing event at the iSchool Terrace Lab
🔗 Please register for the event to receive the Zoom link: https://ischool.ubc.ca/events/event/using-large-language-models-to-assess-students-and-code-qualitative-data/

How are contemporary large language models (LLMs) being used to identify meaningful categories in texts to further educational research and development? Join Dr. Ryan Baker as he delves into three ongoing projects by the Penn Center for Learning Analytics to discuss LLMs, and what lessons we can learn from these projects.

iSchool Research Day is back! Join us for a day of showcasing the fascinating research that the iSchool community does.

📅 March 15, 2024 from 9am to 5pm
📍Coach House, Green College
🔗RSVP by February 9: https://ischool.ubc.ca/events/event/ischool-research-day/

💡 2023-2024 iSchool Colloquium Series 💡

How does shared language, or folksonomies, emerge in and support the work of highly distributed groups? Join our colloquium on January 25 at 12pm with Dr. Kevin Crowston to learn more.

For more information on the event, please visit the event webpage: https://ischool.cms.arts.ubc.ca/?p=46406. Registration is not required.

Please note that this event is now hybrid, and the in-person event has been moved to the Chilcotin Room in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. For the Zoom link, please visit the event webpage: https://ischool.ubc.ca/events/event/storytelling-as-information-research-from-data-storytelling-to-misinformation/

💡 2023-2024 iSchool Colloquium Series 💡

On January 18 at 12pm in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre's Dodson Room (302), join Dr. Kate McDowell for a talk on the implications and applications of storytelling as a form of information dissemination. She will draw on her work with critical data storytelling, which she is currently developing a toolkit and writing a book on.

For more information about the event, please visit the event webpage: https://ischool.ubc.ca/events/event/storytelling-as-information-research-from-data-storytelling-to-misinformation/. Registration is not required.

Due to forecasted weather, UBC is cancelling all in-person learning activities on the Vancouver campus for Jan. 18. Classes may move online. Students are asked to look for communication from instructors. Necessary services will be maintained. Read more: www.ubc.ca

Due to forecasted weather, UBC is cancelling all in-person learning activities on Vancouver campus for all of Jan. 17. Classes may move online. Students are asked to look for communication from instructors. Necessary services will be maintained. Read more: www.ubc.ca

Our colloquium with Dr. Kate McDowell is happening this Thursday, January 18 - will we see you there?

💡 2023-2024 iSchool Colloquium Series 💡

On January 18 at 12pm in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre's Dodson Room (302), join Dr. Kate McDowell for a talk on the implications and applications of storytelling as a form of information dissemination. She will draw on her work with critical data storytelling, which she is currently developing a toolkit and writing a book on.

For more information about the event, please visit the event webpage: https://ischool.ubc.ca/events/event/storytelling-as-information-research-from-data-storytelling-to-misinformation/. Registration is not required.

Join us on January 24 for this public lecture with Ky Sargeant, EDI Scholar-in-Residence at UBC Library. Register now: https://bit.ly/3TkH5Cb

💡 2023-2024 iSchool Colloquium Series 💡

On January 18 at 12pm in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre's Dodson Room (302), join Dr. Kate McDowell for a talk on the implications and applications of storytelling as a form of information dissemination. She will draw on her work with critical data storytelling, which she is currently developing a toolkit and writing a book on.

For more information about the event, please visit the event webpage: https://ischool.ubc.ca/events/event/storytelling-as-information-research-from-data-storytelling-to-misinformation/. Registration is not required.

Congratulations to Claire Dannenbaum (MLIS '05) for receiving a 2024 I Love My Librarian Award!

Meet the 2024 I Love My Librarian Award Honorees | American Libraries Magazine The 10 recipients of the 2024 I Love My Librarian award demonstrate expertise, dedication, and impact in their communities.

"We hope that these clean-ups were able to create a better environment for us all to share."
Read our interview with Information Assistant Debra Locke on the beach and park clean-up parties she organized this past summer: https://ischool.ubc.ca/news/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-school-of-information-great-canadian-beach-park-cleanup-parties/

Congratulations to iSchool alumna Anna Jubilo!

Congratulations to Alicia Warkentin, Anna Jubilo, Borja Brown, Daniel Pugh, and Szu Shen on receiving the 2023 Dean’s Award for Staff Excellence! Their hard work and dedication are truly remarkable. Learn about our fantastic award recipients!

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From January 2024 onwards, we will only be accepting applications for the September intake, with the annual deadline on January 15. For more information, visit our website: https://ischool.ubc.ca/news/transition-to-single-intake/

📚 How do we engage toddlers and babies in storytime? Join Dr. Tess Prendergast for her popular Storytime Skills Workshop to find out! No prior experience or course work is needed, and everyone in the iSchool community is welcome to drop-in.

Dates are January 24, January 31, February 7, and February 14, from 12:30pm to 1:30pm in the iSchool Terrace Lab.

For more information, visit our website: https://ischool.ubc.ca/events/event/?date=upcoming-events&eventTag=&topic=&type=workshop

The application deadline is December 5th, 2023 - that's in ONE WEEK! More information on the job posting here: https://ischool.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/term-appointments-for-adjunct-professors-and-sessional-lecturers/

📣 Job Opportunity 📣

UBC School of Information invites applications for a number of part-time Adjunct Professor and Sessional Lecturer teaching positions for the academic year 2024-25. We are seeking instructors in a range of areas in library, archival, and information studies.

For more information on the positions, please visit our website here: https://ischool.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/term-appointments-for-adjunct-professors-and-sessional-lecturers/.

Deadline for submissions is December 5th, 2023.

We interviewed Dr. Heather O'Brien a few months ago on the many things she does, including her work with STOREE, her research in user engagement, and her journey in academia. Read the full article here: https://ischool.ubc.ca/news/faculty-spotlight-dr-heather-obrien/

📣 Job Opportunity 📣

UBC School of Information invites applications for a number of part-time Adjunct Professor and Sessional Lecturer teaching positions for the academic year 2024-25. We are seeking instructors in a range of areas in library, archival, and information studies.

For more information on the positions, please visit our website here: https://ischool.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/term-appointments-for-adjunct-professors-and-sessional-lecturers/.

Deadline for submissions is December 5th, 2023.

Registration deadline extended to November 20th! Register here: https://ischool.cms.arts.ubc.ca/?p=46131

Please note that this event is reserved for IBPOC-identifying iSchool students and faculty.

This event is reserved for IBPOC-identifying iSchool students and faculty. Registration is required.

On Tuesday, November 21, join artist Jeffery Chong as part of the IDEAS/iSGM Speaker Series. He will share how his family research and profession in archives have shaped his artistic practice. He will talk about navigating through local archives to track his family history in Canada. Jeffery will also tell the story about discovering in the CBC Archives the news footage of his grandfather, and how it inspired his public art currently displayed in downtown Vancouver, Home Edition. Jeffery will conclude by sharing some works in progress.

For more information about the event and to register, please visit the event webpage: https://ischool.ubc.ca/events/event/ideas-isgm-speaker-series-archives-creative-art-practices-artist-talk-by-jeffery-chong/