UBC Library and Vancouver Aquarium reveal Vancouver’s secret waterways
by Glenn Drexhage on July 19, 2011
Media Release | Jul. 19, 2011 Vancouver’s vanished streams and waterways can be discovered once again thanks to a digitization project involving UBC Library and the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre. UBC Library digitized the content of the Aquarium’s paper maps from the 1970s, allowing both scholars and the public to see the paths of […]Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with GIS, Vancouver, waterways
UBC Library in open access Partnership journal
by Glenn Drexhage on July 8, 2011
An article from UBC Library’s Science and Engineering team appears in the open access journal Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. The piece, entitled “Teaching Matters: Increasing Library Visibility through Integrated Classroom Instruction,” is by Eugene Barsky (Librarian), Aleteia Greenwood (Head) and Kevin Read (student librarian and student at UBC’s […]Posted in General | Tagged with accessibility, community engagement, Media coverage, open access, scholarly communications
UBC Library in the BCLA Browser (Vol. 3, No. 3)
by Glenn Drexhage on July 4, 2011
Find out about the latest developments at UBC Library in the new issue of the BCLA Browser (Volume 3, Number 3). The Features section includes news about University Librarian Ingrid Parent taking on the presidency of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions; a new Director for the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre; the […]Posted in General | Tagged with Media coverage
Information Literacy: Digging Deeper for Understanding in a Digital World
by Jessica Woolman on July 4, 2011
UBC’s Education Library hosted an information literacy mini-conference for secondary student teachers (teacher candidates) called “Digging Deeper for Understanding-Using Information Smarts in a Digital World” on June 8, 2011. The mini-conference was planned collaboratively with Dr. Kedrick James, a faculty member in the Department of Language and Literacy Education and Jo-Anne Naslund, Instructional Services librarian […]Posted in Events, General | Tagged with conference
UBC Library helps furnish schools, non-profit organizations
by Jessica Woolman on June 30, 2011
A piece of UBC Library now resides in the tiny Dora Drinkwater Community Library on Denman Island, B.C.
Expanding access to Earth and Ocean Sciences
by Jessica Woolman on June 30, 2011
Earth sciences researchers can now access and explore more relevant research thanks to cIRcle, UBC’s institutional repository. cIRcle is the University of British Columbia’s digital repository for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners. With more than 34,000 items freely accessible to anyone on the web, cIRcle offers continued […]Posted in General | Tagged with
Storied UK periodicals at UBC Library
by Glenn Drexhage on June 27, 2011
Fascinating accounts of British history and culture are now available via UBC Library, thanks to new online periodical collections. 19th Century UK Periodicals is a major new collection covering the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th-century world. To date, two parts of the five-part series have been released. Part 1 marks the […]Posted in General | Tagged with
UBC Library Spaces
by Jessica Woolman on June 23, 2011
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Digitization program/project in Coast Reporter
by Glenn Drexhage on June 22, 2011
An article on a digitization project being led by the Sunshine Coast Museum & Archives appears in the Coast Reporter newspaper. The project, which involves the digitization of Sunshine Coast newspapers, received support from the B.C. History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. You can view the article here, and […]Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with BCHDP, digital libraries, digitization, Media coverage
Building the future with the Canaccord Learning Commons
by Jessica Woolman on June 21, 2011
Students from UBC’s Sauder School of Business have flocked to the new Canaccord Learning Commons (CLC) since it opened in February. The CLC, which is Canada’s first dedicated learning commons within a business school, was made possible through a $1.5- million donation from Vancouver’s Canaccord Financial Inc. It’s an excellent example of UBC Library’s desire […]Posted in General, Strategic Plan | Tagged with Canaccord Learning Commons, Community Report, graduate students, Learning Commons, UBC