Category Archives: Lectures

Love Data Week 2022: Feb 14-18

Love Data Week is an international celebration of all things data, scheduled annually in the week of Valentine’s day. Its aim is to engage community and increase awareness with events that highlight the prominence, value, and appropriate handling of data in our lives and research.

For Love Data Week 2022, libraries at SFU, UBC, UNBC, and UVic collaborated to offer a series of talks and workshops. All events will be hosted online via Zoom and registration is open to everyone. 

You can check out all of the Love Data Week events and workshops through the UBC Library Research Commons. All events are online and completely open.

This year’s keynote presentation is by Sonia Barbosa, the Manager of Data Curation for Harvard Dataverse. The presentation is titled Lessons learned: 20 years of data acquisition and management services  and will be held on Monday, February 14th from 10am-11am, You can register for this talk here.

Free, Public Talk, Lunch & Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with Dr. Constance Crompton – Open Access Week

To celebrate Open Access Week, Dr. Constance Crompton (University of Ottawa), 2017-18 Honorary Resident Wikipedian at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) and the University of Victoria Libraries, will give a free, public talk.

“Donating and Developing: Contributing to Wikipedia to Make a Better Web” takes place on Monday October 22nd from 11am-12pm in the Digital Scholarship Commons, Mearns Centre for Learning, McPherson Library. Following the talk, participants are invited to learn how to edit the global, online encyclopedia Wikipedia in order to put their personal knowledge to work online.”

Registration: https://wiki2018.eventbrite.com

For more information, please visit the UVic Digital Scholarly Commons events page

What Do We Want? (We’re Not Sure!) When Do We Want It? (Hard to Say!)

Register at https://webapp.library.uvic.ca/registrations/r/register.php?id=186 or by emailing scjo@uvic.ca

 

Rick Anderson, Associate Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication at the University of Utah & President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing

What Do We Want? (We’re Not Sure!) When Do We Want It? (Hard to Say!): Reconciling the Needs of Analysis and Advocacy in Scholarly-Communication Reform

Monday, October 24, 2:00-3:30pm
University of Victoria McPherson Library, Room 210

Reforming scholarly communication is a tough job, made tougher by factors that include the lack of unanimity among stakeholders as to what reform should look like (or whether it’s needed at all);  the wide variety of needs and interests among the system’s stakeholders; the structural complexity of the system itself; the lack of unanimity as to what “open access” means; the heavy weight of tradition in academic practice; and the high level of emotion that inevitably accompanies discussion of these issues.  The difficulty and complexity of the reform project suggest that analysis is needed, but the moral and emotional weight of the issues involved naturally lead us in the direction of advocacy instead—and advocacy and analysis are, unfortunately, natural enemies.  In this session we will review salient aspects of the scholarly-communication landscape that make reform particularly challenging, some principles for addressing those challenges, and some possible mechanisms for applying these principles to bridge perspectives, including strategies for including the all-important authors’ voice.

About Rick Anderson:  Over the past decade, Rick Anderson has distinguished himself as one of the most creative thinkers and provocative speakers on libraries, library collections, and scholarly publishing.  Named a Library Journal “Mover & Shaker” in 2005, Rick currently serves as Associate Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication at the University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, as President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and member of several editorial boards, but is best known as a popular conference speaker, writer and contributor to Library Journal’s Academic Newswire and the Scholarly Kitchen. His experience spanning the worlds of libraries, publishing, and as a writer and bookseller uniquely qualifies him to address the current challenges and future of open access and scholarly publishing. Rick has authored several books including the recent Libraries, Leadership and Scholarly Communication: Essays by Rick Anderson, published by ALA Editions in 2016.

 

There will also be live webcast of this talk on Tuesday, October 25, 9:30-10:30 AM from Simon Fraser University Vancouver Campus.

Info at http://www.sfu.ca/webcast/index.html

 

Contact Scott Johnston with any questions.

What Do We Want? (We’re Not Sure!) When Do We Want It? (Hard to Say!):

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? (Hard to Say!): Reconciling the Needs of Analysis and Advocacy in Scholarly-Communication Reform

Monday, October 24, 2:00-3:30pm, University of Victoria McPherson Library, Room 210

OR

Tuesday, October 25, 9:00-10:30am, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Campus, Room 7000  (with Live Webcast starting at 9:30am)

How to Register:

  • to attend the Oct. 24 event in Victoria, please register by emailing Scott Johnston scjo@uvic.ca OR
  • to attend the Oct. 25 event in Vancouver, please register hereSpace limited, so register early!


ABSTRACT:   Reforming scholarly communication is a tough job, made tougher by factors that include the lack of unanimity among stakeholders as to what reform should look like (or whether it’s needed at all);  the wide variety of needs and interests among the system’s stakeholders; the structural complexity of the system itself; the lack of unanimity as to what “open access” means; the heavy weight of tradition in academic practice; and the high level of emotion that inevitably accompanies discussion of these issues.  The difficulty and complexity of the reform project suggest that analysis is needed, but the moral and emotional weight of the issues involved naturally lead us in the direction of advocacy instead—and advocacy and analysis are, unfortunately, natural enemies.  In this session we will review salient aspects of the scholarly-communication landscape that make reform particularly challenging, some principles for addressing those challenges, and some possible mechanisms for applying these principles to bridge perspectives, including strategies for including the all-important authors’ voice.

 

ABOUT RICK ANDERSON:   Over the past decade, Rick Anderson has distinguished himself as one of the most creative thinkers and provocative speakers on libraries, library collections, and scholarly publishing.  Named a Library Journal “Mover & Shaker” in 2005, Rick currently serves as Associate Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication at the University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, as President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and member of several editorial boards, but is best known as a popular conference speaker, writer and contributor to Library Journal’s Academic Newswire and the Scholarly Kitchen. His experience spanning the worlds of libraries, publishing, and as a writer and bookseller uniquely qualifies him to address the current challenges and future of open access and scholarly publishing. Rick has authored several books including the recent Libraries, Leadership and Scholarly Communication: Essays by Rick Anderson, published by ALA Editions in 2016.

 

To view the Oct. 25 live webcast, please watch this site for details: http://www.sfu.ca/webcast/index.html

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Sent on behalf of the BC Research Libraries Group
Webcast support provided by the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL)

She Wants To Be Everything”: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Letters…

“She Wants To Be Everything”: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Letters and Archives
A public lecture with Peter K. Steinberg
October 27, 2016
4:30 pm
Room 210, Mearns Centre for Learning-McPherson Library

On the anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s birthday, please join us for a special Treasures and Tea celebrating 50 years of Special Collections at UVic Libraries with the announcement of an important acquisition and a public lecture by archivist and Plath scholar Peter K. Steinberg. Steinberg will discuss the history and textual variations of Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar and two of his recent book projects: co-editing the Letters of Sylvia Plath and co-authoring a book all about Plath’s much-used, widespread archives. In the latter topic Steinberg will reveal never before seen poems by Plath.

Peter K. Steinberg is the co-editor of the Letters of Sylvia Plath (Faber, 2017) and co-author of These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath (Fonthill, 2017). He maintains the website A celebration, this is (http://www.sylviaplath.info) and Sylvia Plath Info Blog (https://sylviaplathinfo.blogspot.com), has written several articles on Plath and was the author of a 2004 biography, Sylvia Plath, published by Chelsea House.

 Free. All welcome. 

 For more information: www.uvic.ca/library/Plath