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BC Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Challenge, Oct. 26th, 2015
October 26th, 2015 is the 9th anniversary of the BC Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Challenge!
DEAR began when the BC Teacher-Librarians’ Association (BCTLA) challenged schools in BC to participate in twenty minutes of simultaneous reading on a Monday morning in October. Over the years DEAR has gathered momentum and involved:
- athletes
- business leaders
- politicians and
- provincial and municipal government offices.
The simple, but powerful idea of DEAR is to promote the importance of literacy by having as many students and adults as possible read at the same time on the same day.
The DEAR Challenge for October 26th, 2015 is for EVERYONE in BC to put down their work, turn off their computer screens, pick up a book, magazine or newspaper and read for 20 minutes.
You are invited to join BC teachers and students on October 26, 2015 as they Drop Everything And Read!
Please add this event to your calendar.
National School Library Day Colloquia, October 27 5-6pm
Please join with us in celebrating National School Library Day! We are honouring Professor Judith Saltman.
The Place and Space for Canadian Children’s Literature in Our Lives and Libraries”
Panel presenters: Maggie DeVries, Jan Hare, Yukiko Tosa, Judith Saltman
Why should we care about Canadian Children’s literature in our lives and libraries? Is Canadian identity critical in a digital, global, pop culture world? Do parents, teachers, teacher-librarians, librarians and young people really care whether they read Canadian or not? Join with our panel presenters as they discuss these questions and more. Maggie DeVries will offer her perspective as a writer for children who has situated both her fiction and non-fiction in BC. Jan Hare will comment as a First Nations scholar and Associate Professor of Indigenous Education at UBC. Yukiko Tosa will provide insights into public and school library collections in her role as head of Britannia Community School Library. Judith Saltman will conclude with remarks based on her research as a Canadian children’s literature scholar.
Where: Room 185, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
When: 5:00-6:00 p.m., Tuesday October 27, 2015
GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award
What is the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award?
The GSS and cIRcle have been partnering to provide the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award to UBC Vancouver graduate students since 2012. It is a lottery based award, and is awarded to four students every year: two at the end of the summer semester, and two at the end of the fall semester. Each award is worth $500. The deadline to participate in the upcoming draw is September 24th, 2015.
To be entered into the draw, students must deposit their exemplary non-thesis course work to the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award collection in cIRcle.
Am I eligible?
All UBC Vancouver graduate students, of all disciplines, are invited to participate in the collection and enter the draw for the award. All you need is your course instructor’s approval to submit your course work to the collection.
What can I deposit?
Any non-thesis course work is welcome. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Essays/papers
- Presentations (including posters)
- Video or Audio based projects
- Graduating projects or papers
- Authorized versions of published articles based on course-related research
The work should be considered exemplary, and your course instructor will need to approve the submission.
Why should I participate?
Winning the award aside, there are lots of benefits to archiving your graduate course work in cIRcle.
Firstly, it provides you with a permanent and professional copy of the work that you can share as part of your academic and professional portfolio. This helps you establish and grow your academic and professional profile.
Secondly, cIRcle is the number 1 digital repository in Canada. All of its content is Open Access and heavily indexed by search engines, including Google Scholar. Adding your content to the collection makes your work accessible to scholars around the world and helps disseminate your work. Items in the GSS cIRcle Award Collection are accessed hundreds, if not thousands of times. The most popular item in the collection is approaching 10,000 views.