I recently presented at the Hong Kong-Canada Crosscurrents presents: Cantonese Worlds (May 14-15th, 2015).  Over the last 50 years, migr...

Yes, it's rare and it's kind of unsexy.  But it's #ThrowBackThursday.  So we must deal with it.  This brief historical footag...

Here is a "digital story" video created by a student at UBC as part of an undergraduate film studies course.   In my work as a ...

I've been an academic librarian for almost eight years now: how time flies .  One of my favourite writers since I was a student has...

Price of Admission , although published in 2006, still rings true in academia today.  In an age when tuition fees have continued to balloone...

Smartcuts is an unbelievably entertaining and informative book by technology journalist Shane Snow .   It is not simply about shortcuts, ...

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...

Search as we know it now is based on words and text, but this is limiting in many ways.  Merely searching the web of links and URLs no lon...

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...

You know who I am, what I do, and more importantly, whether or not I can help you or someone you know. Author and management consul...

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...