Summary Reflective Post
A concluding summary of my learnings in LIBR 509, where I tied individual posts together to reflect holistically on my progress and outcomes throughout the term.
Relevant Extracurricular Activities
A post where I summarized my relevant work that facilitated or added to the achievement of the course's learning outcomes outside of LIBR 509.
Systems Integration Creation: A Fantastic Collection of Literary Works and Adaptations
LIBR 509 Integration Assignment #2: A collection that I proposed to integrate different types of information organization systems, in order to organize global literature that has been adapted into audio, visual, audiovisual, or multimedia products and these adaptations.
Systems Integration Analysis: UBC Library's Open Collections
LIBR 509 Integration Assignment #1: A short analysis that I wrote to summarize some key facts about UBC Library's Open Collections and discuss its strengths and limitations as an interoperable collection of collections.
Data Format Analysis: BIBFRAME
LIBR 509 Analysis Assignment #4: A short analysis that I wrote to summarize some key facts about BIBFRAME and the challenges and issues we are facing as attempting to adopt it in replacement of MARC 21.
Content Standard Analysis: VRA Core
LIBR 509 Analysis Assignment #3: A short analysis that I wrote to summarize some key facts about the content standard VRA Core and critique its limited applicability to today's art and culture landscape, particularly in terms of organizing and describing digital artworks.
Controlled Vocabulary Analysis: The Art & Architecture Thesaurus
LIBR 509 Analysis Assignment #2: A short analysis that I wrote to summarize some key facts about Getty Research Institute's Art & Architecture Thesaurus and its strengths and weaknesses in terms of expanding its multilingual scope.
Classification System Analysis: The Library of Congress Classification
LIBR 509 Analysis Assignment #1: A short analysis that I wrote to summarize some key facts about the Library of Congress Classification and critique its limitations when it comes to classifying films.
Content Schema Creation: Scented Candles
LIBR 509 Creation Assignment #3: A content schema that I developed to organize scented candles to help people search for scented candles based on specific preferences and/or requirements.
Thesaurus Creation: Ang Lee's Filmography
LIBR 509 Creation Assignment #2: My attempt to create a thesaurus/controlled vocabulary to cover and organize key themes and elements that filmmaker Ang Lee’s works have been about.
Faceted Classification System Creation: Physical K-pop Albums
LIBR 509 Creation Assignment #1: My attempt to create a classification system that aims to organize physical versions of music albums of WayV across their discography to facilitate managing the albums and the accompanied photocards.
FPS Website Search Engine Optimization
A major search engine optimization (SEO) project that I carried out as the Marketing Co-op at FPS Food Process Solutions Corp to increase its website's visibility in Google, Bing, and other search engines with more traffic from potential customers.
Odyssey Plan
By completing it at the end of my co-op journey, the Odyssey Plan is a tool to support me during this transitional point in life to brainstorm about my future.
Skills Matrix Form
The Skills Matrix is a ‘living document’ for me to keep track of my diverse experiences in a logical format.
Rescreening of Farewell My Concubine (1993): Audience Research Project
A media audience research project that I conducted in a third-year cinema studies course focusing on media audiences in both theories and practices. By accessing the particular cohort of young adults who viewed the restored classic movie at rescreening sessions in Vancouver, I discovered the audience's shared socio-cultural diasporic context being an determining factor of their viewing practices and perceptions of the movie under the dynamics of transnational culture and technology advancement.
UBC Sustainability Education Fellows Program Recruitment
Digital content that I produced as UBC Sustainability Hub's Digital Content Creator to help advance the promotional campaign of Sustainability Education Fellows Program supported by the Hub and encourage faculty members to apply for the new cohort.
UBC 2024 Climate Emergency Week
A monthly marketing campaign of UBC's annually Climate Emergency Week, mainly managed and presented by the UBC Sustainability Hub, where I have been working as a Digital Content Creator and handling jobs including social media posting scheduling, on-site direct community engagement, and promotional content production.
UBC Sustainability Hub Course-Finder Tool
A short video that I developed as UBC Sustainability Hub's Digital Content Creator from ideation to execution to delivery, to promote the course finder tool developed by the Hub to help students find sustainability and climate-related learning opportunities at UBC.
Photography Assets for UBC Sustainability Hub
Sets of photographs portraying activities and events held by the UBC Sustainability Hub during Fall 2023 and Winter 2024. I took, edited, and compiled all the photos as visual assets for the use of the Hub's future marketing.
Graphics for UBC Sustainability Hub's Social Media Channels
Digital graphics that I created as the Digital Content Creator at the Hub to feature and/or promote specific blog articles, events, or projects related to how members of the UBC community take part in climate action and sustainability.
Interviews with UBC's COP28 Delegation
A series of interviews that I conducted as the Digital Content Creator at the UBC Sustainability Hub to feature 10 UBC students, faculty and staff who was selected to attend the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) in 2023. The interview videos in two versions were for use on UBC's campus digital signages and UBC Sustainability Hub's social media channels.
UBC Sustainability Scholar: Yash Mehta
A two-section video series that showcases UBC graduate student Yash Mehta's experience of participating in the UBC Sustainability Scholars Program and working on a boat with False Creek Friends Society this summer to advance sustainability and marine preservation in Vancouver. This is one of the projects that I've done with the UBC Sustainability Hub as a Co-op Digital Content Creator.
Climate Emergency Fund: Public Scholar Maya Daurio
An interview article and a short video that I created as UBC Sustainability Hub's Digital Content Creator, to share Maya's work on community-centred wildfire resilience research supported by the UBC Climate Emergency Fund, and her insights into climate change adaptation with more audiences.
Green Building on UBC Campus: C.K. Choi Building
A creative short video I produced as a Digital Content Creator at the UBC Sustainability Hub to showcase one of the actions the UBC community has taken in sustainability.
UBC Sparrow
My volunteering work at UBC Sparrow, a non-profit student-found thrift project. As the marketing executive, I was responsible for organize and manage the marketing strategy and social media campaigns for UBC Sparrow; I participating in managing the business accounts of UBC Sparrow on Instagram and Xiaohongshu by brainstorming ideas and plans for these handles as well as maintaining a monthly marketing calendar.
The Snow Falling on Our Heads
An original piece of nonfiction (memoir) that deals with my personal experience in the intergenerational grandparent-grandchildren relationship.
Media’s ‘Bounty’: Urban Bounty Social Media Marketing Strategy Project
A community-engaged learning project where I, as a core member of the team, evaluated Urban Bounty's current social media performance, developed refreshed digital marketing strategies, and implemented a new Instagram campaign plan.
Back to Normal
A short film that I created in collaboration with four other UBC students to showcase young female friendships and their solidarity in everyday lives.
Exhibition Research Project: "The Three Musketeers"
A film program poster I created from the perspective of an imagined film exhibitor in the silent era for a film studies course focusing on early cinema.
Through the Branches
A collection of photographs documenting my experiment of the concept of a fixed point of view in the use of camera.
Flowers in the Kitchen
A collection of photographs I took about a creatively constructed scene of fruit and vegetables “in bloom” like flowers in the kitchen.
Place
A series of photographs I took to explore the similarities and differences between two places on the UBC campus.
Untitled [Photographic Principles]
Three sets of photographs I took to experiment with photographic principles including shutter speed, aperture, and composition.