Contact Us
Categories
- About Langara (1)
- Academic Innovation Newsletter (2)
- Collection Gems (47)
- Staff Favourites (5)
- Copyright (39)
- Feedback and Suggestions (3)
- Instruction (65)
- Langara Authors (3)
- Learning Commons (17)
- Library Building (10)
- Library Reports (27)
- Strategic Visioning (4)
- Term & Annual (21)
- Library Services (23)
- News & Articles (126)
- College Students (11)
- Events (29)
- Higher Education (26)
- Inspiring Success (10)
- International Education (3)
- Libraries as space (8)
- Open Access (24)
- Scholarly activity (9)
- Technology (34)
- Professional Engagement (5)
Category Archives: Scholarly activity
Introducing the Langara Open Student Scholar Prize
In partnership with Open Langara and the Langara Institutional Repository (The LaIR), this term the Library is pleased to announce the first Open Student Scholar Prize. This prize celebrates the exemplary work being done by our students and offers them … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Open Access, Scholarly activity
Tagged Academic Innovation Newsletter
Comments Off on Introducing the Langara Open Student Scholar Prize
Can We Decolonize Open? An Open Access Week Event
Join Langara, Kwantlen, BCIT, SFU, and UBC for an exciting half-day celebration of Open Access Week (Oct 21-27, 2019). This year’s theme from SPARC is Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge. Our keynote speaker, Jessie Loyer, will explore this … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Open Access, Scholarly activity
Comments Off on Can We Decolonize Open? An Open Access Week Event
Earn $500: Review an open textbook today!
Open Langara has partnered with BCcampus to offer Langara instructors a $500 honorarium to review a textbook in the BCcampus Open Textbook Collection. For those unfamiliar with the BCcampus Open Textbook Initiative, the aim is to “make higher education more accessible … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Scholarly activity
Tagged Academic Innovation Newsletter
Comments Off on Earn $500: Review an open textbook today!
Keeping up with… higher ed
Although Keeping Up With… is aimed at academic librarians, the brief themed articles include trends in higher education that may be of interest to many. Each edition focuses on a single issue including an introduction to the topic and summaries … Continue reading
Posted in Higher Education, Scholarly activity
Comments Off on Keeping up with… higher ed
LFA statement of support for Dale Askey and McMaster University in libel lawsuits
Librarian Dale Askey and McMaster University were recently sued for libel by Edward Mellen Press, for a total sum of $4.5 million in damages. Langara Librarians are members of the Langara Faculty Association and stand unanimously behind this statement: The Langara … Continue reading
Posted in Higher Education, Scholarly activity
Tagged About Langara
Comments Off on LFA statement of support for Dale Askey and McMaster University in libel lawsuits
Canada Year Book ceases
After 145 years of documenting the country’s history, the Canada Year Book will no longer be published. Statistics Canada published the last edition of its longest-running publication on Tuesday. It is the last such print publication and will not continue … Continue reading
Posted in Scholarly activity
Tagged Publications, Statistics Canada
Comments Off on Canada Year Book ceases
Avoiding the Filter Bubble
Technology enables online personalization which can be helpful (or creepy). Often associated with targeted ads, this technology can also skew your view of the world if you use some search engines such as Google. Ran across this article that discusses … Continue reading
Posted in Scholarly activity, Technology
Tagged Filter bubble
Comments Off on Avoiding the Filter Bubble
Classroom 2020
A Look Ahead : Classroom of 2020: The future is very different than you think by ERIN MILLAR, Special to The Globe and Mail, Published Monday, Oct. 22 2012, 4:29 PM EDT Starts off: “Imagine: you wake up at 9:23 … Continue reading
Posted in College Students, Higher Education, Scholarly activity, Technology
Tagged Future ready
Comments Off on Classroom 2020
Biochar research projects and businesses in BC
BC Research Projects ~~ BC Companies ~~ Research projects elsewhere in Canada BC research projects and potential academic partners: Kwantlen – potential academic partner on the greenhouse testing sideNo one from Kwantlen shows up in lit searches. Kwantlen Institute … Continue reading
Posted in News & Articles, Scholarly activity
Comments Off on Biochar research projects and businesses in BC
