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Join UBC Library for an international celebration of data during Love Data Week

by phoebe chan on February 14, 2022

Join UBC Library for an international celebration of data during Love Data Week dedicated to spreading the awareness and importance of research data through a series of workshops held online between February 14th and 18th.

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I Know We’ll Meet Again: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal of Japanese Canadians

by Library Communications on February 14, 2022

Join this online public panel event inspired by the Joan Gillis fonds, a remarkable collection of letters that recount the lives of a group of Japanese Canadian teenagers after their forced dispersal from the coastal regions of British Columbia in 1942.

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Forest(Reads): A Virtual Book Club on Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

by Anna Moorhouse on February 8, 2022

Join Forest(Reads), a virtual book club on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Forestry, the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC Library and the Simon KY Lee Global Lounge and Resource Centre.

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Download the Birds in Nature digital colouring book: calendar edition

by phoebe chan on February 7, 2022

Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated birds in nature that doubles as a calendar.

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Chung Collection exhibition room closed for maintenance and renovations

by Anna Moorhouse on February 2, 2022

The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection exhibition room in Rare Books and Special Collections at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is temporarily closed until further notice for ongoing maintenance and renovations.

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William Shakespeare’s First Folio published in 1623 gifted to UBC Library

by Library Communications on January 12, 2022

UBC has acquired a first edition of William Shakespeare's Comedies Histories and Tragedies—an extremely rare book published seven years after Shakespeare's death and credited with preserving almost half of his plays.

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UBC Library becomes first Canadian institution to join Dryad membership

by Library Communications on January 10, 2022

As the first institutional member of Dryad in Canada, UBC Library joins a thriving global community of universities, research institutions and academic libraries all working together to promote data publishing, curation, and preservation.

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Season’s Greetings from UBC Library

by phoebe chan on December 21, 2021

This year, as we transitioned back to on-campus activity, UBC Library and its people faced new and unexpected challenges. I am so proud of how we served the UBC community and beyond during this time. Thank you to all of our friends, supporters, and library colleagues who have helped us to provide the expertise, collections […]

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Meet Emma MacFarlane, Learning Commons Coordinator at UBC Library

by Library Communications on December 8, 2021

Learn how the Chapman Learning Commons team develop and deliver various programs and services to students and community members. Emma MacFarlane, Learning Commons Coordinator, shares her story.

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The UBC Library Research Commons helps UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster visualize research outputs

by Anna Moorhouse on December 7, 2021

The UBC Library Research Commons partnered with the UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster to find a workflow that would create graphical representations of the cluster’s publication information.

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