Career Space E-zine

SELECTED PROJECTS:

• LibQual+ - Communications Steering Committee. Write-up in: UBC Friends of the Library, Fall 2007 issue: “LibQual +survey”: p.5. LibQual+ “is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track, understand, and act upon users’ opinions of service quality.”
• UBC cIRcle Information Repository - Communications Working Group: - Communications Working Group: responsible for the branding, promotional materials and website content development. Write-up in UBC Friends of the Library, Fall 2007 issue “The Big Picture: Coming Full cIRcle”: p.7. UBC’s Informational Respository (cIRcle) in an open access digital archiving community that accepts teaching materials, learning objects and original research materials. (Update: new article on cIRcle in UBC Reports: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2008/08feb07/circle.html)
  

DISCUSSION PAPERS:

• “Toward the Nodal Library? A Discussion on the Future of the UBC Library in the Emerging Elibrary Environment” (Fall 2006) - Co-developed this paper as part of strategic planning activities.
• Authored complementary discussion paper: “New Media Library User Culture” (Fall 2006).

EDITING

• HLABC Forum Newsletter - Guest Editor for the January 2008 issue. Wrote the editorial and recruited contributors for articles on journal management topics, and edited articles and reports for this newsletter which was distributed to health librarians and information professionals throughout British Columbia. 

WEB CONTENT WRITING

• Course Reserves Library Survival Guide - LEAP (Learning Enhancement Academic Partnership) is a web portal for UBC undergrads which gives them information about the university, academic coaching, learning support groups, tutorials and study help. A number of students new to the university are unfamiliar with course reserves in the library. While the information on the library website is good I realized that we could be pushing this information out to the students in the form of the study tool kits on LEAP. The result is the Course Reserves Survival Guide.

ARTICLES:

• “Borrowed Technology: Laptops for Loan Introduced at the Woodward Library”. HLABC Forum Newsletter, v.27 n.3 (Spring 2004):pp.6-7.
• “Out of Line”. A book review for “Kill the Robot” by Maggie McDonald, which appeared on the Geist Magazine website April-July 2006.
• “Del.icio.us: a Social Bookmarking System.” HLABC Forum Newsletter (Spring/Summer 2006):p.22.
• “A Conference in Cyberspace.” HLABC Forum Newsletter (Spring/Summer 2006): pp.24-25.
• The Graduate Magazine (UBC) - “Photography Matters.” February 2007 issue - accompanied by several photographs.
• “Archie Andrews, Pithy Sayings and Journal Management”, Editorial - HLABC Forum Newsletter (January 2008).
• “CHLA Conference 2008: 7-Q Interview”, HLABC Forum Newsletter (January 2008)

NARRATIVES

• “How to Pitch a Tent in the Dark”, Canadian Stories - a Literary Folk Magazine Written By or About Canadians. Volume 8, #46 page 24.