UBC Library’s branches and collections are regularly featured in the media.
Learning Centre to enhance space and servicesThe Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is working to provide a new multi-service desk and upgraded spaces.
Date: April 24, 2013 @4:31 pm
Unpacking the Douglas Coupland fonds
Artist Douglas Coupland adds to his personal archives at UBC Library's Rare Books and Special Collections.
Date: February 7, 2013 @2:27 pm
Great Reads program featured in Campus Resident
UBC Library's Great Reads, a leisure-reading program at Koerner and IKBLC, was highlighted in the recent Campus Resident newsletter.
Date: February 7, 2013 @2:27 pm
Celebrating Irving Barber’s life and legacy – Ubyssey video
“Celebrating Irving K. Barber’s Life,” a video of the June 11 Celebration of Life event held to honour Dr. Barber, appears on the Ubyssey‘s website.
Date: June 13, 2012 @9:50 am
UBC Library update in CPSLD Newsletter
The latest on UBC Library appears in the Spring 2012 issue of the CPSLD Newsletter, published on behalf of the Council of Post Secondary Library Directors, British Columbia. Scroll to page 27 for the UBC entry – which includes a tribute to Irving K. Barber, an update on the Library’s new Community Report, notable film donations [...]
Date: June 12, 2012 @9:57 am
Digitization program/project in Lake Country Calendar
A project to digitize archival records from the Lake Country Museum and Archives is featured in the community press. For more, please visit “Lake Country Museum digitizes its archival records” in the Lake Country Calendar. This project received a grant from the B.C. History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Date: April 24, 2013 @4:31 pm
UBC and copyright updates
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 full articles – “UBC opts out of Access Copyright Agreement” and “UBC to pay for copyrighted material independently” [...]
Date: May 16, 2012 @9:27 am
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.
Date: May 11, 2012 @9:26 am
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: Elsevier Experiments With Allowing ‘Text Mining’ of Its Journals,” in the [...]
Date: May 7, 2012 @9:49 am
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.
Date: April 25, 2012 @9:45 am
