Media coverage
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: [...]
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.
Dr. Irving K. Barber – media coverage
The legacy of Dr. Irving K. Barber, a UBC alumnus, forester and philanthropist who passed away last week, is covered by the Vancouver Sun, the Province, the Nelson Star, the Surrey Leader, the Prince George Citizen and the Ubyssey. You can also view the UBC media release and a tribute on behalf of UBC Library [...]
UBC Library Spring 2012 Update – BCLA Browser
UBC Library’s 2012 Spring Update appears in the new issue of the BCLA Browser (Volume 4, no.2), the newsletter of the British Columbia Library Association. Have a read and find out about: the donation of a film collection on the B.C. environment to UBC Library; the latest winners of the Innovative Dissemination of Research Award; [...]
Art donation featured in Kelowna Capital News
The donation of six screenprints to UBC’s Okanagan campus is featured in the Kelowna Capital News. The prints – donated by Briar Craig, an Associate Professor of Visual Arts – are on display in the Field Reading Room, which is based in UBC’s Okanagan Library.
Trek Online: UBC Library legends
Lionel Haweis and Dorothy Jefferd are two fascinating characters from UBC Library’s past. Find out more in this Trek Online article, written by Erwin Wodarczak of UBC Library’s University Archives division.
Law Library profiled in American Libraries
UBC’s beautiful new Law Library, located at Allard Hall, is profiled in American Libraries. The piece highlights the Library’s environmental elements.
