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By Anna Moorhouse on September 14, 2022
UBC Library has digitized an extremely rare collection of World War II-era propaganda plays from Japan, presented in a format known as kamishibai, or paper theatre, plays.
Posted in General | Tagged with Asian Library, collections, digital collections, Digital Initiatives, Digitization Centre, open collections
By phoebe chan on August 9, 2022
UBC Library’s annual Senate Report is now available. Read about our highlights from the past fiscal year, which include advancing research, learning and scholarship, engaging with communities, inspiring with innovative spaces and services and stewarding the organization. Learn how the library transitioned back to fully in-person operations on campus in September 2021, kicking off a year of hybrid teaching, learning and work.
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 Library Communications on July 26, 2022
UBC Library’s Joan Gillis Fonds has been added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register in recognition of its historical value.
Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, Asian Library, collections, Japanese Canadian history, Joan Gillis Fonds, press release, Rare Books and Special Collections, UNESCO
By Anna Moorhouse on July 20, 2022
UBC Library is excited to announce that the Music, Art and Architecture (MAA) Library in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre has acquired the Harry and Ann Malcolmson Photography Book Collection.
Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, Music Art and Architecture Library, photography
By Anna Moorhouse on April 19, 2022
UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the digital archives of The Vancouver Sun newspaper from 1912 to 2010. Library users will have access to not only the articles, but to the entire published page in these fully searchable archives.
Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, digital collections
By Anna Moorhouse on April 12, 2022
UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the Afghan Serials Collection (DA-ASC) Partisan Publications from the Wahdat Library as well as the Afghan Central Press digital archive, addressing in part the needs of student and faculty conducting research in Afghan Studies.
Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, Asian Library, collections, digital archives, digital collections
By Library Communications on February 14, 2022
Join this online public panel event inspired by the Joan Gillis fonds, a remarkable collection of letters that recount the lives of a group of Japanese Canadian teenagers after their forced dispersal from the coastal regions of British Columbia in 1942.
Posted in Events | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, Japanese Canadian history, Joan Gillis Fonds, press release, Rare Books and Special Collections
By phoebe chan on February 7, 2022
Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated birds in nature that doubles as a calendar.
Posted in Events | Tagged with BC History, birds, birds in nature, children's literature, collections, Digital Initiatives, links, open collections
By Library Communications on January 12, 2022
UBC has acquired a first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies Histories and Tragedies—an extremely rare book published seven years after Shakespeare’s death and credited with preserving almost half of his plays.
Posted in Press releases | Tagged with collections, RBSC, UBC First Folio
By Anna Moorhouse on November 15, 2021
UBC Archives has received an extensive collection of materials from UBC’s Department of Athletics and Recreation, totalling nearly 8,000 photographs and textual records.
Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, UBC Athletics, University Archives