Emily Carr University Library

The Emily Carr University of Art + Design Library provides access to a unique collection of diverse resources that support curricular and research activities across the University.
  • Future of Reading Symposium

    Rochester Institute of Technology

    June 9 –12, 2010

    A symposium with keynotes by Margaret Atwood, award-winning Canadian author, and Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief, Wired Magazine.

    Head to Rochester, New York for provocative and challenging presentations by world-class authors and experts in writing systems, content creation, linguistics, vision and cognition, typography, and visual media that all seek to answer the question: “How will reading change?”

    Student registration is $150, regular registration is $295. Registration includes meals.

  • PeopleSize: anthropometry software

    Anthropometric data is important for designing and assessing products.

    Do you need to know the abdominal depth of a 7-month pregnant woman? The difference between British, US and Japanese men's calf circumferences? What about the head circumference of the 40th percentile of infants aged 6-9 months? You can find find all of these measurements in PeopleSize.

    PeopleSize is reference visual anthropometry software. The Library has installed PeopleSize on the PCs in the library. Unfortunately PeopleSize does not work on Macs.

  • What’s in the window? Sustainabily designed visitor kiosk

    The National Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation partnered with Emily Carr in a technology demonstration project that harnesses the clean power of hydrogen and fuel cells in a sustainably designed visitor kiosk. The kiosk will be located in the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Gateway technology demonstration and exhibit centre of the NRC-IFCI’s LEED Gold certified building at the University of British Columbia.

  • eJournal News - exploring Cultural Studies, Fashion, Material Culture, Craft and Photography

    Check out these peer-reviewed journals that are available full text in Art Full Text.

    Fashion Theory

    Provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the rigorous analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot-binding to fashion advertising.

  • The Library launches new digital collections

    The Library is excited to launch four new digital collections that support teaching and research at the University. These collections are the first local digital collections of Emily Carr University Art + Design. They include both images and text.

    The collections are:

  • Media Democracy Day 2009: Beyond the Frame

    Saturday, November 7th – 11am-6pm
    The Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street

    Rabble.ca: "Do you believe in democracy and free expression? Do you want your opinion to count rather then have it swept under the carpet by corporate media? If you answered “yes” to the previous questions, Media Democracy Day is your day!" -- Read more.

  • Image credit: Western Front
    Western Front: Stories from Places and Times Distantly Close

    Western Front: "Western Front Exhibitions and Media Arts are pleased to present Stories from Places and Times Distantly Close, the Vancouver premiere of works by internationally recognized media artists Cinema Suitcase and Will Kwan." -- Read more.

    Opening: Friday, November 20, 8pm

  • Artspeak: Area Sneaks Issue 2
    • Artspeak, November 7, 2009 at 8pm 
    • Co-presented with Fillip

    Artspeak: "Los Angeles-based artists to launch Area Sneaks Issue 2.This event will include a demonstration/talk by Jen Hofer and Hillary Mushkin, a reading by Mathew Timmons, and a screening of Marie Jager's The Purple Cloud (2006). Area Sneaks is a Los Angeles-based journal edited by Joseph Mosconi and Rita Gonzalez which seeks further contact between the worlds of visual art and poetry."

  • Image was posted from the NFB: Get Animated! site
    Get Animated!

    "Get Animated! is a Canada-wide series of free screenings and activities from the National Film Board, to mark October 28th, 1982: the date the first animated film was shown, by Emile Reynaud at the Musee Grevin in Paris."

    "You can also enjoy the NFB's online film festival programmed exclusively for Get Animated!"

    For details for all events, go to: http://films.nfb.ca/get-animated/

  • Image was posted from the Vancouver New Music Festival website
    Vancouver New Music Festival 2009

    "A festival of sonic collagism, and the art of sampled and repurposed sounds and images.Featuring  Jackson 2bears, Uri Caine, Chris Cutler, DJ Tapes, Eric The Red, Holzkopf, Mark Hosler (Negativland), John Oswald, People Like Us (Vicki Bennett), Scanner, David Shea and Sonarchy." --Read more.