UBCO getting $35 million library expansion
by Clare Yow on December 6, 2016
AM1150 announces the major expansion to the library at the UBC Okanagan campus.Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with links, Media coverage, Okanagan, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, UBC Okanagan
UBCO gets new building
by Clare Yow on December 6, 2016
UBC and the federal and provincial governments are chipping in to get a new building for students on the UBC Okanagan campus. Article from Castanet.Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with links, Media coverage, Okanagan, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, UBC Okanagan
Governments pledge $35 million for new teaching, learning centre
by Clare Yow on December 6, 2016
The Kelowna Daily Courier looks at how UBC Okanagan students will soon have more places to study following the expansion of the campus library.Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with links, Media coverage, Okanagan, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, UBC Okanagan
UBC Okanagan focus of $40 million investment for library expansion and infrastructure upgrades
by Clare Yow on December 5, 2016
A joint federal-provincial and university investment was announced on December 5, 2016 at UBC’s Okanagan campus to establish a new Teaching and Learning Centre and fund various sustainability and infrastructure upgrades.Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with community engagement, donation, library changes, links, Media coverage, Okanagan, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, UBC, UBC Okanagan
100 years of Prince George Citizen now in digital form at library
by Clare Yow on December 1, 2016
A century's worth of the Prince George Citizen was digitized thanks to support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with BC History, collections, digitization, IKBLC, links, Media coverage
UBC purchases “the most beautiful of all printed books”
by Clare Yow on December 1, 2016
The Fall 2016 issue of Trek looks at the Library's purchase of the Kelmscott Chaucer.Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with art, collections, donation, donors, Kelmscott Chaucer, Kelmscott Press, links, Media coverage, Rare Books and Special Collections
2017 cycle for Indigitization Grant Program now open
by michelle blackwell on November 29, 2016
Indigenous and Aboriginal communities across British Columbia are invited to apply for audio-cassette digitization support by March 3, 2017.Posted in General | Tagged with Aboriginal Audio Digitization and Preservation Program, Indigitization, links
寂靜圖書館 擺進一台鋼琴 / A piano in the quiet library
by Clare Yow on November 24, 2016
Ming Pao Canada interviewed Kevin Madill, head of the Music, Art and Architecture Library, on use of their electronic silent piano by international students.Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with community engagement, links, Media coverage, Music Art and Architecture Library, pianos
UBC community gathers for annual Spelling Bee at UBC Library
by michelle blackwell on November 23, 2016
Units from across campus participated in the annual UBC Library/United Way Spelling Bee on November 16 in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.Posted in Events, General | Tagged with IKBLC, spelling bee, United Way
University of British Columbia Library joins OLH LPS model
by Clare Yow on November 23, 2016
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce that the University of British Columbia Library has joined their Library Partnership Subsidy system (November 18, 2016).Posted in General | Tagged with accessibility, community engagement, digital collections, links, Media coverage, open access, research learning and scholarship