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By Anna Moorhouse on April 15, 2024
UBC faculty, staff and students can now access three new digital collections of newspapers. Explore digital archives for The Montreal Gazette, the Chinese Newspaper Collection, and Le Monde.
Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, digital collections, Humanities & Social Sciences Collections, Koerner Library
By Anna Moorhouse on April 9, 2024
UBC Library is making Indigenous language dictionaries more accessible by digitizing these works and making them available through UBC Open Collections.
Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with cIRcle, collections, community engagement, digital collections, Digitization Centre, Indigenous
By Anna Moorhouse on March 18, 2024
UBC faculty, staff and students now have access to an extensive list of new digital archives, databases, ebooks, print resources and more through UBC Library, thanks to funding provided by the UBC President’s Academic Excellence Initiative.
Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, PAEI
By phoebe chan on February 5, 2024
Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated fish and waterways that doubles as a calendar.
Posted in Events, General | Tagged with BC History, collections, Digital Initiatives, fish, nature, open collections, waterways
By matt patton on August 15, 2023
UBC Library’s annual Senate Report (2022/23) is now available. Read our highlights from the past fiscal year which include advancing research, learning and scholarship, engaging with communities, creating and delivering responsive collections, inspiring with innovative spaces and services, and stewarding the organization.
Posted in General, Publications, Senate Reports | Tagged with collections, community engagement, research learning and scholarship, senate report, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, support
By Anna Moorhouse on June 29, 2023
UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC), in partnership with The Paper Trail project team, has launched a digital archival collection of identity papers known as Chinese Immigration (C.I.) certificates created through Canada’s Chinese Immigration Act.
Posted in General | Tagged with collections, digital collections, RBSC
By Anna Moorhouse on February 27, 2023
UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the NAACP Papers, a digitized collection of primary source materials documenting the civil rights organization’s major campaigns from 1909 to 1972.
Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, Black Studies, collections, Law Library
By phoebe chan on February 6, 2023
Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated animals in nature that doubles as a calendar.
Posted in Events, General | Tagged with BC History, collections, Digital Initiatives, links, open collections
By Anna Moorhouse on January 30, 2023
An exhibition on display now at UBC Library’s Music, Art and Architecture (MAA) Library will soon be making a move to the University of Toronto Libraries.
Posted in General | Tagged with collections, community engagement, exhibitions, Music Art and Architecture Library
By Anna Moorhouse on January 9, 2023
UBC Archives has received the collected archives of prominent theoretical physicist Dr. George Volkoff and microbiology researcher Olga Volkoff.
Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, archives, collections