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Vancouver board of education may cut up to 40 jobs
Vancouver Sun blog – BC Education Report
Tracy Sherlock
October 9, 2013
The Vancouver School Board is meeting tonight to hear input on a plan that could see as many as 40 jobs lost to pay for the CUPE wage increase.
Senior management at the board of education prepared a savings plan to pay for the support staff collective agreement increase of 3.5 per cent that will not be paid for by the Ministry of Education.
Vancouver schools will need to save $2.43 million this year and $4.25 million for the 2014-15 school year, the plan says.
To view the rest of the blog posting, click here.
Poetry Please! Presentation and poetry workshop
PoetryPlease! Tiffany Stone and Robert Heidbreder, two well-known BC children’s poets whose published works include Rainbow Shoes (Kirkus starred review), Floyd the Flamingo and His Flock of Friends, Black and Bittern Was Night (Publishers Weekly starred review) and Crocodiles Play, will take you on a poetic ride. You will listen to poetry, act it out, read it, write your own poems and discover some criteria for choosing and writing poetry with your class.
We will also have a repeat of last year’s extra fun activity—Speed Dating for Lovers . . . of books.
Friday November 22, 2013 at the University Golf Club 8:00 am – 12:00 pm. Includes a continental breakfast. Co-sponsored by CWILL.
Early Bird Rates until October 31 Members $40 Non-Members $55 Students $20
To register online or by mail visit our website www.vclr.ca.
Note: these are member-only events. Don’t miss out. Please make sure your membership is up-to-date.
Library Workshops in October for Graduate Students
Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis: Little Things Mean A Lot!
Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons staff will help you with your questions about the nuts and bolts of formatting: tables of contents, page layout, numbering, headings, front matter, and more! As well, find out more about the resources that are available to help you in writing your thesis/dissertation. Graduate students at any stage of the writing process are welcome; some prior knowledge of Microsoft Word will be helpful.
Thursday, October 3rd, 5-7pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4451
Wednesday October 9th, 3-5pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4463
Have specific questions you think would be best answered in a one-on-one session? See our Consultations page to book a session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.
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Citation Management Using RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley
Need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work? Citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and retrieve your citations in an effective manner, and can also help you in formatting in-text citations and bibliographies in your work.
Sign up for a tool specific hands-on workshop about the core concepts of citation management and detailed instruction for use of either RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley.
Are you new to citation management tools entirely, or do you have advanced-user questions? See our Consultations page to book a one-on-one session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.
Citation Management Using RefWorks:
Wednesday, October 23rd, 3-5pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4292
Citation Management Using Mendeley:
Wednesday October 2nd, 2-4pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4339
Tuesday, October 15th, 10am-12pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4291
Citation Management Using Zotero:
Thursday, October 17th, 1-3pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4459
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Workshop 1- Basic SPSS
Friday, October 18th, 3-430pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4309
Monday, October 28th, 12:30 – 2:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4313
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FIREtalk: Indigenizing the Academy
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission events in Vancouver support reconciliation between Aboriginal people and wider Canadian society. To continue the conversation, Xwi7xwa Library and the Research Commons at Koerner Library invite you to participate in a FIREtalk at the First Nations House of Learning Hall on Oct 23, 4-6 pm.
How can the academy engage Aboriginal and Indigenous knowledge? What are some ways researchers at UBC – Indigenous and non-Indigenous – are using Indigenous methodologies and incorporating Indigenous knowledge? What challenges arise and how can we address them?
Be part of the discussion: submit your proposals for a 5-minute presentation by the 7th of October, 2013. Find more information at: http://bit.ly/FTpresent
Interested but don’t want to present? Attend as an audience member and join the discussion after the presentations! To attend without presenting, register at: http://bit.ly/23OctFt
FIREtalks: An interdisciplinary forum for graduate students, by graduate students. Find out more at: http://bit.ly/firetalk
For information about all of our workshops and events, please visit our website here.
The Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable presents Julie Flett, Julie Morstad & Richard Van Camp in Conversation October 19th, 2013
Join us on Saturday October 19, 2013 for a morning of words and images, entertainment and delight as three rising stars in Canadian children’s publishing talk about their craft.
University Golf Club
8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Includes breakfast | Book sales by Kidsbooks | Art sales
Early bird rates end September 30, 2013.
Click here for more information and to register.