Open Education Week: March 3-25
by Library Communications on February 17, 2025
Open Education Week at UBC starts on March 3! Check out all the exciting events coming up and learn more about Open UBC.
Meet Amity Chiang, Human Resources Coordinator at UBC Library
by Library Communications on February 6, 2025
Learn how Amity Chiang, HR Coordinator, is helping to promote a safe, inclusive, and engaged community at UBC Library.Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with profile, Work with us
Notice regarding delivery service delays
by Library Communications on February 5, 2025
We are currently experiencing delays to campus delivery services due to circumstances beyond the Library’s control. Please anticipate longer wait times. For ASRS items, select MAA Library as the pick-up location for the fastest delivery.Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with Service Bulletins
UBC Library brings Repair Café to UBC Climate Emergency Week
by Anna Moorhouse on February 4, 2025
UBC Library will be hosting a Repair Café on the Main Floor of Woodward Library on February 13, as part of Climate Emergency Week at UBC.Posted in Events, General | Tagged with climate, climateactionteam, Woodward Library
Within the Gaps: Intracommunity Voices in Chinese Canadian and Korean Canadian Records
by Library Communications on January 30, 2025
Dive deeper into this exhibit, on display at UBC Asian Library, that explores the polyvocality of Chinese Canadian and Korean Canadian communities in British Columbia.Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with Asian Library, community engagement, exhibitions, exhibits, RBSC
A dying wish, forgotten boxes, and a lost Holocaust archive rediscovered
by Library Communications on January 27, 2025
Creative writing professor Timothy Taylor uncovers his family’s hidden wartime history through his grandfather's diaries and letters, to be preserved with help from the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and UBC Library.Posted in General | Tagged with
UBC Library receives Peter Wall Institute Archives
by Anna Moorhouse on January 20, 2025
UBC Archives has acquired the institutional records of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS), which was founded at UBC in 1991 to focus on interdisciplinary research.Posted in General | Tagged with collections, University Archives
2025 UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research now accepting applications
by matt patton on January 14, 2025
The UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research is now accepting applications until February 28, 2025.Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research
Behind the screens: How UBC Library contributes to virtual reference service AskAway
by Anna Moorhouse on January 13, 2025
For more than a decade, AskAway has been providing students, faculty, and staff with real-time, virtual access to research and reference support.Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with AskAway, services, spaces and services
Season’s Greetings from UBC Library
by Library Communications on December 20, 2024
2024 was a year of exciting new beginnings at UBC Library. Across our branches and services—and alongside many partners—we launched innovative new initiatives, improved many of our spaces, welcomed new faces and so much more.Posted in General, University Librarian Message | Tagged with seasons greetings, University Librarian