Arts Multilingual Week 2025 at UBC
by Library Communications on March 4, 2025
UBC Library will be hosting multilingual resources pop-ups and an online workshop on finding multilingual library materials, as part of Arts Multilingual Week at UBC.Posted in Events | Tagged with Arts Multilingual Week
UBC Library achieves funding goal for the George Bowering Reading Room
by Library Communications on March 3, 2025
Thanks to the generous support and dedication of our contributors and champions, the George Bowering Collection and Reading Room in Rare Books and Special Collections at UBC Library has become a reality!Posted in General | Tagged with collections, George Bowering Collection
Exploring Tairiku Nippō: A historical Japanese Canadian newspaper at UBC Library
by Anna Moorhouse on February 24, 2025
Since its launch on UBC Open Collections, the digitized Tairiku Nippō has been viewed more than 2.5 million times by scholars from around the world.Posted in General | Tagged with Asian Library, collections
Open Education Week: March 3-25
by Library Communications on February 17, 2025
Open Education Week at UBC starts on March 3! Check out all the exciting events coming up and learn more about Open UBC.Posted in Events | Tagged with
Meet Amity Chiang, Human Resources Coordinator at UBC Library
by Library Communications on February 6, 2025
Learn how Amity Chiang, HR Coordinator, is helping to promote a safe, inclusive, and engaged community at UBC Library.Posted in General | Tagged with profile, Work with us
UBC Library brings Repair Café to UBC Climate Emergency Week
by Anna Moorhouse on February 4, 2025
UBC Library will be hosting a Repair Café on the Main Floor of Woodward Library on February 13, as part of Climate Emergency Week at UBC.Posted in Events, General | Tagged with climate, climateactionteam, Woodward Library
Within the Gaps: Intracommunity Voices in Chinese Canadian and Korean Canadian Records
by Library Communications on January 30, 2025
Dive deeper into this exhibit, on display at UBC Asian Library, that explores the polyvocality of Chinese Canadian and Korean Canadian communities in British Columbia.Posted in General | Tagged with Asian Library, community engagement, exhibitions, exhibits, RBSC
A dying wish, forgotten boxes, and a lost Holocaust archive rediscovered
by Library Communications on January 27, 2025
Creative writing professor Timothy Taylor uncovers his family’s hidden wartime history through his grandfather's diaries and letters, to be preserved with help from the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and UBC Library.Posted in General | Tagged with
UBC Library receives Peter Wall Institute Archives
by Anna Moorhouse on January 20, 2025
UBC Archives has acquired the institutional records of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS), which was founded at UBC in 1991 to focus on interdisciplinary research.Posted in General | Tagged with collections, University Archives
2025 UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research now accepting applications
by matt patton on January 14, 2025
The UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research is now accepting applications until February 28, 2025.Posted in General | Tagged with UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research