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Connect unavailable Saturday, September 28th from 7am to noon due to system upgrades
Please be advised that Connect will be unavailable on Saturday, September 28th from 07:00-12:00 PT due to system upgrades. For further information and updates, please see UBC IT bulletins at http://bulletins.it.ubc.ca/.
If you have any questions about the outage, please contact UBC IT at 604.827.4357 (7-HELP), or via the UBC IT Contact Form:
Food for Fines Oct. 21 to Nov. 3, 2013: Clear your fines while helping those in need
Photo Credit: Brenda Wallace
UBC Library users who wish to donate non-perishable food items may have $2 in fines paid for each food item donated up to a limit of $30. Food donations will be given to local food banks.
The Food for Fines program will take place in all UBC Library branches from October 21st to November 3rd, 2013. Acceptable food donations include any non-perishable canned or packaged food. Perishable items or anything requiring refrigeration cannot be accepted.
People who do not owe library fines, but who still wish to donate food, may do so – but we cannot credit their Library account.
Celebrate Science 2013: An event for parents, teachers, writers, and librarians
A celebration of science! An event for parents, teachers, writers, and librarians! Want to engage youth in science and math? Why not use interesting books, simple hands-on activities, scientific collections, quests and above all make it fun!
9:30-12:30 pm Beaty Biodiversity Museum 2212 Main Mall, UBC Saturday, October 26, 2013
Featured Scientist—Dr. Andrew Trites, Professor & Director,
Marine Mammal Research Unit, Fisheries Centre at UBC
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Dr. Trites’ research on pinnipeds (Steller sea lions, northern fur seals, and harbor seals) is designed to further the conservation and understanding of marine mammals. In 2007 as part of the Big Blue Project team, he unearthed a blue whale skeleton in PEI. This experience plus his driving passion to resolve conflicts between people and marine mammals are compelling. “I don’t know what questions will raise their heads tomorrow, that’s partly what makes this so interesting”. Find out more about this awesome scientist. |
Featured BC Science Writers
Claire Eamer , author The World in Your Lunch Box, Lizards in the Sky, Spiked Scorpions & Walking Whales and more; Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone, hands-on science writers with over 70 science books including the Dirt Book, Kitchen Science, and Hockey Science; Carol McDougall, creator of Salmon Sky View; Lori Sherritt-Fleming, artist, aRYTHMetic poet; Ashley Spires, illustrator of Scary Science and Blinky the Space Cat books and E.Paul Zehr, writer of books using superheroes to improve scientific literacy, Becoming Batman & Inventing Iron Man.
Special Tribute to science educator, Gordon Gore and founder of the Big Little Science Center in Kamloops.
Go on a guided tour of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum and learn about their fascinating collections and exciting programs. Did we mention the best part? Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors this year’s event is FREE! Who could turn down a fun-filled morning featuring the skeleton of a blue whale?
Register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/8344455491/eivtefrnd
Fall 2013 Colloquium Series: Sept. 25th, Canadian Poet, JonArno Lawson will present “A Talk from the Bottom of the Box: Reflections of an Award-winning Poet for Youth.”
The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, the iSchool at The University of British Columbia, cordially invites you to the first of our Fall 2013 Colloquium Series, where JonArno Lawson, Canadian Poet, will present “A Talk from the Bottom of the Box: Reflections of an Award-winning Poet for Youth.” This colloquium is sponsored by the Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Program.
JonArno Lawson is one of Canada’s most noted poets for children and young adults. He is the author of a range of books for all ages, from collections of poetry for teens to single poem picture books. He also is a writer of non-fiction. He will discuss his creative and publishing process and read from his books.
The Colloquium is free and open to the public. It will be held this Wednesday, September 25, from 12 noon to 1 p.m., in the Dodson Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC. map.
For more information about this presentation as well as upcoming colloquia, please visit http://www.slais.ubc.ca/news/colloquia.htm.
Wear Orange September 25th – SAFE SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS
The United Nations Secretary-General’s campaign UNiTE to End Violence Against Women has declared the 25th of each month #OrangeDay. This month they are calling for all girls to have access to violence-free education.
Are you involved in initiatives to improve the safety of girls at and on the way to and from school? Share them @SayNo_UNiTE. Find out what you can do to make schools safe for girls at http://owl.li/mlJkg
ORANGE DAY ACTIVITIES (25th September)
In support of the upcoming International Day of the Girl Child (11 October), this Orange Day, the UNiTE campaign will highlight ‘Safe Schools for Girls’.
What can you do?
- Reach out to your local schools and encourage teachers to engage with the issue of gender equality in their lessons. Share lesson plans and other resources on gender equality: http://teachunicef.org/explore/topic/gender-equality
- Are you aware of innovative initiatives to ensure that schools are a safe and violence free environment? Share information, photos and films @SayNo_UNiTE.
- Young men: find out what you can do to contribute to efforts to end violence against women. Check out the White Ribbon Campaign’s “10 things men can do to end violence against women”: http://www.whiteribbon.ca/what-you-can-do/
- Find out about UN Women and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts’ upcoming joint programme for young people to stop violence against women and girls, Voices on Violence: http://saynotoviolence.org/sites/default/files/Voices%20against%20Violen…. Interested in running the programme? Please contact stoptheviolence@wagggs.org.