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Duncan re-appointed to college board -- Regular monthly board meeting -- Save December pay stub -- Discovery room services resume -- College people -- Welcome aboard -- Commercial crime topic of lecture -- Ac/Tech faculty & staff meeting -- Madrona centre news -- Gym schedule -- Note local -- Exhibit of memorabilia -- College praised -- Studio 58 presents Creeps -- For your diary https://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/699/MainlyMalJan12-82.pdf?sequence=3

Digital media consumption of magazines is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, yet print remains significant in this genre. The purpose of this study is to determine a model of publishing in which an independent magazine’s printed form can be made more viable because of its digital components, not despite them. Using a strengths-based approach, the study is based in semi-structured interviews with the publishers of eight independent magazines that have used both print and digital media in their publishing practices, exploring themes like motivation, creative freedom, creative control, and career development. Then, the data was sorted through the lens of McLuhan’s “laws of media” tetrad model, allowing for analysis of what is enhanced, obsolesced, retrieved, and reversed in this hybrid publishing model, with the aim of showing what each component can effectively bring in order to support the print edition and to integrate the digital components. The results inform the design and framework of a magazine publishing model in which the print issue is the focus, with support from the digital components. Any independent magazine can apply the results to its current practices or use them to launch a new hybrid offering.

Front-line maintenance supervisors play a key role at BC Transit, as this role directly interacts with and oversees front-line staff. These front-line leaders are responsible for overseeing most of the organization’s communications and change initiatives. This research investigates the front-line leadership role that organizations rely on as their main conduit for communication of organizational goals and change management initiatives to front-line staff. Front-line leadership roles are the roles in an organization that deal directly with the front-line staff daily. This research investigated the challenges a front-line leader can face while working in this role. This research study engaged BC Transit’s front-line maintenance supervisors and the front-line staff from two different sites within the greater Victoria, British Columbia area. The main research question asked was, “how can BC Transit assist in the development of front-line maintenance supervisors so that they develop the capabilities and skills to lead front-line staff effectively?” Based on this overarching research question, data was collected from a focus group and an online survey that revealed five themes: define and document roles and responsibilities, strengthen hiring processes, develop formal training, focus on team-building and resolve communication barriers. Recommendations offer strategies for the development of front-line leaders, including enhancing overall support for front-line leaders and relationships between front-line leaders and the front-line staff. Keywords: front-line leadership, communication, development, relationships, roles and responsibilities.

Japanese garden handed over -- Ten on initial short list -- Board meeting delayed one week -- Planning and development agenda -- Federal all candidates at college on May 12 -- College people -- Jeacock new faculty association president -- Einstein associate to speak May 4 -- Stroyan new board member -- Revised gymnasium hours -- Crafts exhibition at Madrona -- Mainly moves summer schedule -- Cowichan youth music thatre coming -- Who's who's https://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/673/MainlyMalMay2-79.pdf?sequence=3

This paper uses visual ethnography to explore the narratives of definition and negotiation of appropriate dress for eighteen expatriate women who currently live in Qatar’s capital Doha. Rapid shifts to the physical and cultural landscape are a product of Doha’s re-imagining of itself as a global city. New sites of interaction between locals and expats lead to collisions of definitions, discourses, values, and images of appropriate dress for expatriate women. Photovoice, photo elicitation activities, and comparative analysis of a local dress campaign use women’s “selfies” of clothing to create a dress resource map (see website). Clothing choices display an interconnectedness of factors largely dependent on clarity of guidelines, enforcement, repercussions, and perceptions of ownership of space. Dress-altering communicates messages of respect and awareness for local values and power relationships as women cover reproductive areas, hide shape, and seek invisibility by manipulating length, tightness, cut, fabric, print, and colour. Basing my analysis on a social semiotic approach, I draw upon post-colonial theory and ideas of intercultural encounters and integration to navigate broader contexts of discourses and images of expatriate women.

Canadian healthcare organizations are experiencing increasing challenges meeting the evolving health needs of aging and growing populations. The ability to manage conflict between multiple stakeholders with varying priorities, responsibilities and associations relative to the healthcare organization is critical to more effectively meet these challenges. The following qualitative research explores factors that contribute to conflict within a multidisciplinary healthcare teams setting and between regulated health professionals. Four registered nurses from an acute care hospital setting in a large metropolitan center were recruited to share their experiences of multidisciplinary team conflict through the use of facilitated focus group sessions. A thematic analysis revealed four main themes perceived as contributing to conflict: team discordance, professional expectations, relational conflict and communication barriers. These findings expand the current limited body of research while aiding the development of best practice tools and guidelines for healthcare organizations.

At the beginning of the 2012/13 academic year, Vancouver Island University library removed most fines and made other loans changes to improve access to physical collections. One year later, the changes were assessed using circulation data and staff interviews. The removal of fines had no significant effect on borrower return rates and circulation numbers, but did win significant goodwill among users. Library staff believe the changes to be positive. This is an electronic version of an article published as: Reed, K., Blackburn, J. & Sifton, D. (2014). "Putting a sacred cow out to pasture: assessing the removal of fines and reduction of barriers at a small academic library" Journal of Academic Librarianship, 40(3-4), 275-280. Journal of Academic Librarianship is available online at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00991333 and this article is available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133314000573

Open budgeting will consider options -- Photo contest winners -- For your diary https://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/754/MainlyMalMar31-83.pdf?sequence=3

This research is focused at the sites of Tumbo Island North and Tumbo Cliff (both on Tumbo Island within the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve [GINPR]), with supplemental data from Rocky Point Department of National Defense (DND) and Garry oak Preserve on Vancouver Island, and Waldron Island in Washington State. Field data is overlaid with a literature review of First Nations’ land management practices and acknowledges First Nations’ use of wildfire on traditional landscapes. Results comparing 2010 to 2018 vegetation data indicate an overall increase in exotic and native species and a net negative effect of fire application. Fuel loading levels are higher than expected and have a direct relationship to fire behaviour outputs. Canopy cover has a positive net effect on native species in grass strata and exotic species in forest strata and a negative net effect if found on exotic species in grass strata and native species in forest strata. An additional product of this research is a restoration plan for Tumbo Island North, which includes a comprehensive burn plan for reintroducing fire to Garry oak (Quercus garryana or p’hwulhp ) ecosystems with an aim to restoration, and with specific prescriptions for reducing conifer encroachment, reducing forest fuel loading, increasing oak sapling regeneration and survival, and increasing plant diversity of native plant species. This restoration plan can serve as a model that can be adapted and used at other Garry oak ecosystem sites. p’hwulhp is the Hul’qumi’num word for Garry oak (Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, 2011,p.10).

Video recording of the keynote address of the Couch Stone Symposium in Nanaimo, BC at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre, April 21-23, 2016.