Canadian authors Wayson Choy, Paul Yee and Sky Lee have launched a $6 million lawsuit against Chinese author Ling Zhang ,  alleging copyri...

Digital scholarship has been an emerging if not critical area in academia for the past decade.  From areas such as data management, to in...

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In Excellent Sheep , the author, essayist, and literary critic  Bill Deresiewicz writes about the state of American education: the the en...

This site started as an experiment in 2006 during a professional practicum with my now colleague and mentor Dean Giustini at the Biomedi...

I've followed UBC Journalism professor Alfred Hermida , who's known as a "news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalis...

As a liaison librarian in Asian Studies, I'm still in the learning stages of collection development - the nuances of balancing purch...

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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...