I recently had the good fortune to work with a prominent community organizer in donating his archives to the UBC Library.  Wong-Chu was bo...

It’s that time of year when the NMC Horizon Project, a 12-year effort established in 2002, unleashes what it identifies and describes a...

I recently came across Jon Acuff's Quitter. Jon Acuff is a New York Times Bestselling author of four books including his most recent,...

The emergence of "Big data" as a field of study is a new phenomenon - one which few comprehends immediately despite a vague notion...

May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada and also the United States since 1979. As part of the Asian diaspora, the month has been established...

I'm a follower of the Futurist Magazine.   Every year, the editors of the publication identify the most provocative forecasts and statem...

I recently finished reading Portraits of 21st Century Chinese Universities: In the Move to Mass Higher Education , an incredibly insightf...

TED finally began on March 17 in the evening 6 p.m. here in Vancouver, BC.  At $7,500 per seat , it's outpriced the majority, including ...

" Generation C " is not a new innovation - it has been around since 2004 . In 2012, Zoe Fox's Forget Generation Y: 18- to...

I'm really glad I attended yesterday's screening of Google and the World Brain , hosted by UBC Continuing Studies @ UBC Robson Squa...

An American Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is potentially drawing the line in the ...

During my trip to the University of T oronto, I had the opportunity to visit the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library .  As the largest repos...

I'm moving out of my usual technology focus for something quite different. As a librarian, my work and passion involves both fiction and...

Popular media has focused much attention on context-awareness media technology. In the May 2013 issue of Wired Magazine , its feature ar...

Having recently completed a self-directed studies research project on context-awareness media in education with Dr. David Vogt , have accumu...