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Reading Week activities round-up at UBC Library

By Clare Yow on February 3, 2016

This Reading Week (February 15-19, 2016), there are a number of activities happening across UBC Library.

In addition to the events listed below, use your UBC library card to discover cinematic favourites from our Videomatica collection of cult favourites to Hollywood blockbusters and foreign films. Great Reads — our leisure reading collection that includes more than 400 literary classics, fiction and non-fiction bestsellers — also awaits you.

Koerner Library

1958 Main Mall
Room 217

February 15 – 19
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Research Impact Challenge

Are you a UBC researcher who wants to broaden the impact of your work? Each day, the UBC Research Commons offers three challenges on:

  • building your academic profile
  • sharing and connecting with other researchers
  • staying on the cutting edge of your discipline
  • increasing the discoverability and access of your research
  • tracking your scholarly metrics and impacts

Sign up to boost the exposure of your research in your field and the public.

Asian Library 

1871 West Mall
Ground & upper floors

February 16 – March 11
Monday – Friday,
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Korean Folk Tale Book Illustration Exhibition

UBC’s Asian Library holds more than 100 Korean folk tale books and children’s literature. Out of these items, ten illustrated books have been selected to celebrate and promote the art of Korean children’s book illustration. Drop by for a glimpse at these beautiful works of art.

Rare Books and Special Collections

1961 East Mall
Level 1

February 17 and every Wednesday until April
11 a.m. – noon

Get to know Rare Books and Special Collections

Ever wondered what Rare Books and Special Collections is? Drop by for a free tour of their unique materials and collections. Tours are offered weekly and are open to UBC faculty, staff and students and the general public.

Music, Art and Architecture Library

1961 East Mall
Level 3, adjacent to the Help Desk

Now through February 22
Monday – Friday,
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Profess Your Love Display

Drop by this interactive display for musings on love by classic authors and artists. Contribute to the display with your own reflections of how love moves you this February.

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

1961 East Mall
Level 2 foyer

Now through end of March
Daily, 6 a.m. – 1 a.m.

World Poetry Canada International Peace and Human Rights Exhibition

See this exhibition that features a blend of photography, poetry, and films from multicultural and multilingual poets and writers. World Poetry began in 1997 and now has more than 10,000 participants who bring out diverse voices in support of peace, respect, and love.

Uno Langmann Display

Explore selections from the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Historical Photographs which consists of more than 18,000 rare and unique early photographs from the 1850s to the 1970s. This display is presented in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition of the Langmann Collection at Presentation House Gallery from March 19 – May 15, 2016. Continue to explore the extensive collection online through UBC Library’s Open Collections portal.

 

Posted in Events | Tagged with Asian Library, exhibitions, exhibits, Koerner Library, Music Art and Architecture Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Research Commons, research learning and scholarship

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