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Annual Music Sale Hosted by Music, Art and Architecture Library

by Jasmine Devonshire on November 15, 2016

UBC Library is pleased to announce the annual Music Sale, hosted by the Music, Art and Architecture Library at IKBLC.

Posted in Events | Tagged with community engagement, IKBLC, students

Five cohorts of Indigitization project participants unite for inaugural Indigitization Futures Forum at UBC

by Clare Yow on November 8, 2016

The Indigitization project brought past program participants together in June 2016 to discuss digitization practices and Indigenous knowledge in communities. The article appears in Issue 4 of BCLA Perspectives.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with community engagement, digitization, Indigenous, Indigitization, links, Media coverage

BC History Digitization Program accepting submissions for funding until December 19, 2016.

by michelle blackwell on November 7, 2016

The B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) is now accepting submissions for funding.

Posted in General | Tagged with BC History, BCHDP, community engagement, digitization

Free UBC Library service makes research outputs more visible online

by michelle blackwell on November 7, 2016

UBC Library's Digital object identifier (DOI) assignment service makes research more discoverable and helps track scholarly impact.

Posted in General | Tagged with research learning and scholarship, scholarly communications, services

Bronwen Sprout Winner of 2016 COPPUL Outstanding Contribution Award

by Clare Yow on October 27, 2016

The Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) is pleased to recognize Bronwen Sprout of the University of British Columbia Library with its 2016 Outstanding Contribution Award.

Posted in General | Tagged with Archivematica, awards, digitization, links, Media coverage

UBC Library Contributes Search Interface to Federated Research Data Repository

by Clare Yow on October 27, 2016

Learn about how Portage and Compute Canada have partnered with UBC Library in adopting our UBC Open Collections user interface.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with accessibility, community engagement, digital collections, Digital Initiatives, digital libraries, links, Media coverage, open access, open collections, research learning and scholarship, scholarly communications

New Initiatives: Partnering with UBC’s Digital Tattoo Project

by Clare Yow on October 26, 2016

The Fall 2016 issue of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information magazine for alumni, Informed, looks at UBC's Digital Tattoo Project.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with Digital Initiatives, Digital Tattoo, links, Media coverage

Food for Fines 2016 runs until November 7, 2016

by michelle blackwell on October 26, 2016

Reduce your UBC Library fines by donating non-perishable food items – $2 in fines paid for each food item donated (up to a maximum of $30). Donated cans are accepted at branch circulation desks from October 24th to November 7th, 2016.

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One of Canada’s most esteemed conservation scientists, Mary-Lou Florian, makes her most recent book available through UBC’s Open Collections

by michelle blackwell on October 24, 2016

Mary-Lou Florian, one of Canada's most esteemed conservation scientists, has made her new book, Comparative Anatomy of Branches, Roots and Wood of Some North American Dicotyledonous and Coniferous Trees and Woody Shrubs Used in Ethnographic Artifacts: Identification and Conservation Concerns available through UBC’s cIRcle Digital Repository.

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with accessibility, alumni, cIRcle, community engagement, open access, Open Access Week, open collections, press release

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