Hi all,
So Senate had a "lively" discussion about VitalSource yesterday. I was unable to watch because I had another commitment, but apparently the VP Finance spoke and apologized multiple times for the lack of consultation and how the announcement was written. He has said that a full committee with students, faculty, and staff will be established to have a consultative process to look at textbook affordability. So, it looks like it's at least on hold.
Brenda
Hi all,
I just attended a session for Fair Dealing Week with Dr. Carys Craig from Osgoode Hall Law School. She highlighted a resource that I thought might be of interest to this group: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources: A Guide for Authors, Adapters & Adopters of Openly Licensed Teaching and Learning Materials<https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/documents/co…> (February 17, 2021). Note that Appendix Three (p. 30~) is authored by Carys and focuses on educational fair dealing in Canada.
Many thanks,
Lindsay
Hello everyone,
Here are the draft minutes from our meeting on Monday, Feb 22nd. Please let me know if you have any edits or additions.
All the best,
Donna
Donna Langille, MISt (She, Her, Hers<https://equity.ubc.ca/resources/gender-diversity/pronouns/>)
Community Engagement and Open Education Librarian
UBC Okanagan Library
The University of British Columbia | Okanagan Campus | Syilx Okanagan Nation Territory
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Hi all,
As promised during our meeting today, here is a link to the class action lawsuit<https://cbaapps.org/ClassAction/PDF.aspx?id=12292> filed by a former KPU student in September 2020 against McGraw-Hill, Pearson, and Cengage regarding their inclusive access model (which, as Karen pointed out, is not inclusive at all).
Best,
Lindsay
Lindsay Tripp
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Hello all,
Our next meeting is scheduled for February 22 at 1pm via Zoom<https://langara.zoom.us/j/66440098209?pwd=ZlhDZzV4aHNHRTIxdkt1NXVXZXkxUT09> (full invite below). My apologies for the late call for agenda items (can I blame it on the long weekend? 😉). Please send any items you would like added to the agenda by noon this Friday (February 19). I'll circulate the agenda shortly thereafter.
I've also attached the draft minutes from our January 18 meeting for you to review. As always, thanks to Donna for recording!
All the best,
Lindsay
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For the past several years UBC Library, the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program, and event sponsors (see below) have organized the Honouring Indigenous Writers Wikipedia Edit-a-thon<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/HonouringIndigenousWriters>. This edit-a-thon event, inspired by Daniel Heath Justice’s<https://fnis.arts.ubc.ca/persons/daniel-justice/> Twitter campaign of the same name, seeks to bring community editors together to work on editing Wikipedia entries for Indigenous authors in an attempt to tackle the systemic bias of Wikipedia while also trying to raise the profile of Indigenous writers.
Instead of the annual in-person event this year the organizing team has put together a schedule of free events and Wikipedia-related activities designed for virtual participation throughout the month of March 2021. The events include:
* Author readings <https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/events> by Smokii Sumac, Richard Van Camp, Tenille Campbell, Marilyn Dumont and more
* Self-paced Weekly Wikipedia Challenges <https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/activities> with prize draws
* Wikipedia training and drop-in Zoom sessions<https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/events>
* <https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/events> A panel discussion<https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/events> from the UBC Vancouver Public Humanities Hub on Wikipedia as public scholarship
* And a social media campaign on Twitter<https://twitter.com/HIW_Wiki>
These events and activities are free and open to anyone to participate. Please join us at our kickoff event and reading with Smokii Sumac on February 24th at 7:00pm PST, and learn more about the other events we have planned! You can also read more at the HIW home page<https://hiw.open.ubc.ca/>, and at the HIW Wikipedia Meetup Page<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/HonouringIndigenousWriters/U…>.
We would also appreciate your support of the event by helping to promote it through your listservs, social media accounts, and other spaces to help raise awareness of Indigenous literature and engage in open community knowledge creation.
The event team has developed a number of social media assets in a variety of sizes for ease of sharing. The assets can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JjUP3kuTsogRBLXv4HF7c281MXLu0x_y?us…
Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions and thank you in advance for any support you can give in making this event a success. Thank you to event sponsors, the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies<https://cis.arts.ubc.ca/>, Iron Dog Books<https://irondogbooks.com/>, BCcampus<https://bccampus.ca/>, and the UBC Bookstore<https://bookstore.ubc.ca/>.
Best,
Erin Fields on behalf of the Honouring Indigenous Writers Event Team
#HonouringIndigenousWriters
Erin M.E. Fields BA, BEd, MLIS (She, Her, Hers<https://equity.ubc.ca/resources/gender-diversity/pronouns/>)
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