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2008
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The Google Factor featured in UBC Reports
The September 2008 issue of UBC Reports features an article on Google and the role of academic libraries and research. The article is followed by an item about UBC Library’s offer of free community borrower cards. You can view the articles here: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2008/08sep04/google.html?src=email
Chinese in BC digitization project in the Vancouver Sun
A digitization project that is a collaboration between UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections, UBC Archives and the City of Vancouver Archives appears in the Vancouver Sun. The project, The Chinese Experience in British Columbia, 1850-1950, explores Chinese immigration, work, and social and cultural life in B.C. through the digitization of items from the [...]
B.C. History Digitization Program in the news
The B.C. History Digitization Program – an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – was recently highlighted in the news. Several of the successful 2008 candidates were featured in newspapers, including the Prince George Citizen, the Bowen Island Undercurrent, and the Tumblerridge News. The Prince Rupert project, featured in the Prince Rupert Daily [...]
Learning Centre featured in Innovation magazine
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is featured in Innovation, the magazine from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. The Learning Centre is part of the 2007/2008 Project Highlights pictorial, and is featured on page 41. You can view a PDF of Innovation magazine here: http://www.apeg.bc.ca/resource/innovation/archive/2008/2008julaug.pdf
Head of UBC Library’s Rare Books appointed to Canadian Heritage post
Ralph Stanton, Head of UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections, has been appointed as a member of the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board. This board is an independent tribunal of the Department of Canadian Heritage. You can view the press release about the announcement here: http://www.pch.gc.ca/newsroom/index_e.cfm?fuseaction=displayDocument&DocIDCd=CJV081416
UBC Library Vault images adorn the cover of Trek magazine
Gorgeous images from the UBC Library Vault (www.ubcvault.ca) appear on the outside and inside front cover of the Summer 2008 issue of Trek magazine, which is published by the UBC Alumni Association. You can download a PDF of Trek here: Download file More Vault images, along with updates on the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre [...]
Chapbooks on display at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections
Fans of ephemeral literature are invited to visit a campus display of 19th-century English chapbooks at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC). Chapbooks are booklets that were popular in rural areas and towns from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and ranged from jestbooks to histories of depraved criminals, medieval romances to song [...]
Digital collection of Emma Crosby letters available online
An illuminating set of letters from the wife of a prominent Methodist missionary in B.C. is now freely available online. The letters from Emma Crosby (1849-1926) provide a fascinating glimpse into the missionary experience. Due to her gender, Emma was not able to become a missionary, although her husband Thomas served as one on the [...]
B.C. History Digitization Program in the Tumbler Ridge News
A Tumbler Ridge project that is part of the B.C. History Digitization Program – an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – is featured in the Tumbler Ridge News. You can view the article here: http://www.tumblerridgenews.com/story.php?id=202436
Learning Centre initiative provides global access to B.C. heritage
Electronic collections featuring community newspapers, B.C. history, fossil specimens, medical artifacts and works by renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman will all be a mouse click away, thanks to a community initiative from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia. Read the full press release.
