About UBC Library’s Digital Colouring Books
Experience history at the tip of your pencil crayons! UBC Library’s digital colouring books aim to inspire creativity and spark curiosity through the art found in our digital and physical collections. We are joining the New York Academy of Medicine Library and others to offer this unique way to engage with library content.
Featured Book
Taking Flight: Birds in Nature
This year’s digital colouring book celebrates conservation and sustainability. The book features illustrated birds in nature found in UBC Library’s Open Collections from B.C. Historical Books and Historical Children’s Literature Collections. Take a creative break each month and join us in celebrating #ColourOurCollectionsUBC.
The Download Library
Get free copies of all our previously released digital colouring books, available as PDF files.
Kelmscott Chaucer
Digital colouring book
Released April 2018
Call No: PR1850 1896
Mythical Creatures
Digital colouring book
Released February 2019
W C. Gibson Collection
Maps and Landscapes I
Digital colouring book
Released October 2019
Andrew McCormick Maps
and Prints
Maps and Landscapes II
Digital colouring book
Released October 2019
Japanese Maps of the
Tokugawa Era
Maps and Landscapes III
Digital colouring book
Released October 2019
Chinese Rare Books
Conservation and
Sustainability
Digital colouring book
Released February 2021
B.C. Historical Books collection
Birds in Nature
Digital colouring book
Released February 2022
B.C. Historical Books
& Historical Children’s Literature
What’s next?
Check back for more!
Share your colours
Show off your work! Post your finished pages on Instagram with the hashtag #ColourOurCollectionsUBC
This project is part of UBC Library’s strategic directions to create and deliver responsive collections.
Learn more about the Library Strategic Framework: library.ubc.ca/strategic-framework.