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Presented at the BC Libraries Conference, April 20, 2006. Includes 2-page handout containing outline of overall process, suggested readings, and an example of evidence-based budgeting.
Author: Jordan, Mark
Date created: 2006-04-20
This was presentation given at the CARL sponsored workshop entitled, Institutional Repositories: The Future is Now. The Workshop was held on October 13, 2004 in Halifax, Nova Scotia as a preconference day for the Access 2004 conference.
Author: Jordan, Mark
Date created: 2004-10-13
Poster presented at iPres 2013, the 10th International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects, Lisbon, Portugal, http://ipres2013.ist.utl.pt/Full text of peer reviewed written component embargoed until the publication of the Conference's proceedings.Czech translation (source: http://ltp.knihovna.cz/?p=295)
Author: Jordan, Mark
Date created: 2013-08
Presented at the "Aligning Digital Preservation Across Nations" preconference workshop at the International Digital Curation Conference, Amsterdam, January 14, 2013.
Author: Jordan, Mark
Date created: 2013-01-14
Presented at the Open Data Learning Summit, Vancouver, September 21, 2012, http://bc.libraries.coop/open/
Author: Jordan, Mark
Date created: 2012-09-21
A visual artist who grew up in Vancouver’s Chinatown, Gwen Boyle’s work explores movement, history, and place. The granddaughter of a Pender Street jeweller, Gwen draws inspiration from the sights and sounds of her childhood — the clinking of beads on an abacus, the hammering of jade, the melting of gold. Gwen is in conversation with host Am Johal about experiences from her Chinatown upbringing. She shares what led her to pursue a lifelong career in art, and her fascination with the Arctic. She also speaks to some of her particular works, including the public art installation, “Abacus (Suan Phan),” an interactive sculpture symbolic of “merchants and old social fabric of Shanghai Alley and Chinatown.”
Author: Gwen Boyle, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Fiorella Pinillos, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-10-29
Am Johal is joined by Derek Woods, an assistant professor of Media Studies at the University of British Columbia. They discuss Derek’s intersecting expertise in media studies and ecotechnology, examining what he deems the three defining characteristics of ecotechnology: artificial ecosystems, media archaeology, and the cultural imaginary through science fiction. They also problematize the term ‘Anthropocene,’ which proposes a new geological epoch marked by the significant impact humans have had on Earth’s geology and ecosystems, including climate change. Derek takes issue with the idea as it universalizes the human species, ignoring how colonialism and capitalism drove the transformation of the earth system.
Author: Derek Woods, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Fiorella Pinillos, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-11-04
Since the onset of the COVID-19, WISH Drop-In Centre Society has rapidly expanded its efforts to support street-based sex workers. Am Johal is joined by executive director, Mebrat Beyene, to discuss how WISH and other Downtown Eastside service providers are collectively responding to the pandemic, which has restricted services and exacerbated many pre-existing crises facing the community.
Author: Mebrat Beyene, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Fiorella Pinillos, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-11-06
Since the onset of the COVID-19, WISH Drop-In Centre Society has rapidly expanded its efforts to support street-based sex workers. Am Johal is joined by executive director, Mebrat Beyene, to discuss how WISH and other Downtown Eastside service providers are collectively responding to the pandemic, which has restricted services and exacerbated many pre-existing crises facing the community.
Author: Mebrat Beyene, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Fiorella Pinillos, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-11-06