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UBC Library expands Great Reads program

By Glenn Drexhage on March 21, 2012

Lovers of leisure lit, take note: UBC Library’s Great Reads program has been expanded and enhanced for your reading pleasure.

Last fall, the Library launched the Great Reads program at Koerner Library to provide campus residents, community members, faculty, staff and students easy access to leisure-reading materials ranging from Canadiana to popular fiction.

The program has been a hit – so much so that it’s now also featured in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, where the collection focuses on topics such as popular art and architecture, non-fiction science best-sellers and more.

In addition, the Great Reads website – found at http://greatreads.library.ubc.ca – has been updated. Take a visit and discover available books by location, scan the carousel for new titles and Google book reviews, and check out recommendations.

Readers have been receptive to the program – recent figures indicate that 62 per cent of the Koerner collection (328 titles) were checked out, while nearly half of the Learning Centre’s collection (69 titles, many more to arrive soon) had been borrowed.

The Great Reads collection is located on the main floor (level three) of Koerner Library and level two of the Learning Centre, adjacent to the Circulation Desk.

For more information, please contact Jessica Woolman at jessica.woolman@ubc.ca

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