Glenn Drexhage
UBC copyright update in the Ubyssey
UBC has announced that it will not sign a license agreement with Access Copyright, the copyright collective, based on a model recently negotiated with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. You can read about the latest developments in the Ubyssey.
Digitization program/project featured in Pique Newsmagazine
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Photo credit: © Lara Swimmer Photography A project to digitize past issues of the Whister Answer newspaper is featured in Whistler’s Pique Newsmagazine. This project received a grant from the B.C. History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Elsevier ‘text mining’ agreement with UBC researcher; UBC Library featured in coverage
Photo: Michelle Lamberson Lea Starr, Associate University Librarian for Research Services, and Librarian Teresa Lee comment on the recent initiative of Heather Piwowar, who worked on an agreement with academic publisher Elsevier to allow text mining of its journals. Read the full article, “Hot Type: [...]
Digitization program surpasses $1-million mark
Lions Gate Bridge, courtesy of the West Vancouver Memorial Library
UBC Library highlighted in Scout Magazine
A recent trial of underground and independent comics offered by UBC Library is featured in an article about Vancouver comics in Scout Magazine.
Digitization program/project in Abbotsford Mission Times
The online photo archives from the Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford are featured in the Abbotsford Mission Times. This project has been funded partly by the B.C. History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
