The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, The iSchool at The University of British Columbia, is making a big entrance at iConference 2012, the first iConference held since UBC joined the iSchools Consortium in March 2011.

The theme for this year’s conference is “Culture – Design – Society,” and a total of 19 faculty, students and others from the UBC iSchool are attending, with more than a dozen of these presenting at the conference, being held in Toronto February 7-10.

UBC iSchool faculty presenting papers, posters and workshops are Luanne Freund, Rick Kopak, Aaron Loehrlein, Eric Meyers, Lisa Nathan, Edie Rasmussen and Judith Saltman. Director Caroline Haythornthwaite and faculty member Victoria Lemieux are attending as delegates.

Adjunct faculty member Gail Edwards, chair of the history department at Douglas College in Vancouver and iSchool post-doctoral fellow Michael Huggett, along with MACL graduate Robert Bittner, are also presenting.

Four students are also presenting at the conference: Danielle LaFrance (MLIS), Jade Guan (MAS), Jacqueline Huck (Dual MAS/MLIS) and Schuyler Lindberg (MLIS). Finally, students Justyna Berzowska (Ph.D.), Florian Ehrensperger (MLIS) and Alex Garnett (Ph.D.) will be attending the conference as student delegates.

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Michelle Mallette MLIS

Student Services Coordinator | School of Library, Archival & Information Studies

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