Learning Centre featured in e-Strategy Update
by Glenn Drexhage on March 12, 2008
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is featured in the March 2008 issue of UBC’s e-Strategy Update. You can view the article here: http://update.estrategy.ubc.ca/2008/03/03/visiting-the-barberPosted in Media coverage | Tagged with IKBLC
Learning Centre opening featured in The Ubyssey
by Glenn Drexhage on February 26, 2008
The opening of the second and final phase of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is featured in the The Ubyssey, a UBC student newspaper. Nearly five years after the project began, Main Library’s transformation into the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is nearing completion. Phase II opened it’s doors to students on February 25th […]Posted in Media coverage | Tagged with IKBLC
Live-in for Literacy at UBC Library
by Glenn Drexhage on February 25, 2008
The recent literacy event at Koerner Library, which involved students living in Koerner to raise funds for libraries in Nepal has gathered quite a bit of media attention. The event was held by the new UBC club called DREAM, or Discover the Reality of Educating All Minds, which is raising money for Room to Read, an […]Posted in Media coverage | Tagged with Live-in for Literacy
cIRcle featured in UBC Reports
by Glenn Drexhage on February 8, 2008
cIRcle, UBC’s information repository, is featured in the February 7, 2008 issue of UBC Reports. Scholarly publishing is starting to come full cIRcle at UBC thanks to the development of an online storehouse known as an institutional repository (IR). Dubbed cIRcle (circle.ubc.ca), the site is designed to help store the vast array of UBC’s research […]Posted in Media coverage | Tagged with cIRcle
Golf Donation to UBC Library profiled in the media
by Glenn Drexhage on January 17, 2008
The recent valuable and generous donation of golf books from Sam Martz to UBC Library has been featured in several newspapers. The Globe and Mail, Sept. 5, 2007 “Fifty years in the making, collection of golf books ‘is the big leagues’.” Read more online. The National Post, Sept. 5, 2007 “The 81-year-old retired businessman […]Posted in Media coverage | Tagged with collections, donation, Rare Books and Special Collections
UBC’s Okanagan Library newsletter
by Glenn Drexhage on December 3, 2007
UBC’s Okanagan Library publishes a twice-yearly newsletter with updates on collections, projects and staff in the Okanagan. The Fall 2007 issue details cIRcle, UBC’s Institutional Repository, renovation updates, the Reference Assistance Program, and staff news. You can view the past issues of the newsletter online.Posted in General | Tagged with cIRcle, Okanagan, renovations, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, UBC Okanagan
UBC Library featured in “new librarians” coverage
by Glenn Drexhage on November 16, 2007
The December 2007 issue of University Affairs includes an article on the “new librarians,” and features comments from UBC Library’s Dean Giustini. “University of British Columbia’s libraries have also seen dramatic changes. When biomedical branch librarian Dean Giustini joined the UBC library staff 10 years ago, the biomedical library offered just three electronic journals. It […]Posted in Media coverage | Tagged with librarians, profile
UBC’s library robot in the media
by Glenn Drexhage on September 17, 2007
The latest issue of Backbone magazine includes a feature article on UBC Library’s automated storage and retrieval system – aka the library robot. You can view the article at http://www.backbonemag.com/Magazine/Hot_Tech_09070702.asp.Posted in Media coverage | Tagged with
The Dolman Collection at UBC Library
by Glenn Drexhage on September 14, 2007
UBC Library’s Dolman Collection is profiled in this article from UBC Medicine magazine. “In his corner in the Rare Books and Special Collections room of the new Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on the Point Grey campus, Ralph Stanton scrolls through a list of books on a computer monitor. Names both famous—Florence Nightingale and Louis […]Posted in Media coverage | Tagged with digital collections, Rare Books and Special Collections, University Archives
A hole-in-one donation for UBC Library
by Glenn Drexhage on August 31, 2007
Vancouver’s Sam Martz, a retired businessman and golf aficionado, has given his entire book collection of 4,730 golf books valued at about $450,000 to UBC. The collection, dating back to early 19th-century editions, covers all aspects of golf including club histories, the genesis and art of the game, course architecture, instructions and even poetry with […]Posted in Press releases | Tagged with donation