Winter Update – BCLA Browser
by Glenn Drexhage on February 3, 2014
UBC Library’s Winter Update in the BCLA Browser highlights a CLIR grant for a collaborative cataloguing project; the digitization of British Columbia Sessional Papers; the inaugural recipients of the Aboriginal Audio Digitization and Preservation Program; and more. The BCLA Browser is the online, open access publication of the British Columbia Library Association.Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with Aboriginal Audio Digitization and Preservation Program, CLIR, digitization, Media coverage, Open Scholar Award, senate report
Videomatica collection garners media coverage
by Glenn Drexhage on January 28, 2014
The launch of the exceptional Videomatica collection at UBC and SFU libraries garnered print, television and radio coverage. You can read “UBC, SFU offer a smorgasbord of film options from Videomatica collection” in the Globe and Mail, and “Videomatica film collection now available at UBC and SFU” in the Vancouver Sun. A similar story, “Videomatica’s […]Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with collections, film, Media coverage, Videomatica
Iconic Videomatica film collection available at UBC and SFU libraries
by Glenn Drexhage on January 27, 2014
Film fans, rejoice – Videomatica's legendary film collection is now accessible for borrowing from UBC and SFU libraries.Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with collections, SFU Library, UBC, Videomatica
B.C. legislative history online
by Jessica Woolman on January 16, 2014
Explore B.C.’s past with the Sessional Papers, a new digital collection.
Reimagining Woodward Library: 50 Years in the Making
by Andrea Coutts on January 10, 2014
As Woodward Library looks forward to its 50th Anniversary, spaces are being reimagined to further advance its integrated partnerships with UBC science programs. Faculty and students in cross-disciplinary areas now have access to additional resources and increased opportunities for collaboration, thanks to the integration of several Library units into Woodward Library earlier this year. […]Posted in General | Tagged with spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, support, Woodward Library
Supporting peer-to-peer learning in today’s libraries
by Linda Ong on January 10, 2014
As a Library Advisory Board member, Sandra Cawley believes that in today’s academic libraries are catalysts for change—change that physically transforms learning spaces, the research process, and the information available to students. “Libraries need to anticipate and be proactive in helping navigate the student experience, “she said recently in a phone interview. Cawley is […]Posted in General | Tagged with IKBLC, research learning and scholarship, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, support
Student needs drive changes to Library spaces
by Jessica Woolman on January 10, 2014
Students returning to campus this fall noticed some big changes at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC). Over the past year, the Library has transformed its reference and circulation desk, added additional space for partnership programs and welcomed the Music Library collections and services to the building. The renamed Music, Art and Architecture […]Posted in General | Tagged with IKBLC, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, support
Parent Funds advance Loaned Technology program
by Jessica Woolman on January 10, 2014
Through the generous support of parents of alumni and current students, the UBC Okanagan Library has been able to expand its loaned technology program. Laptops made available through this program support students who do not have access to mobile technologies, helping advance their research and learning. For many students, access to technology means access […]Posted in General | Tagged with support, UBC Okanagan, UBC Okanagan Library
Arkley Croquet Collection goes online
by Jessica Woolman on January 10, 2014
Croquet fans can rejoice now that the Arkley Croquet Image collection has been made available online. Hundreds of paintings, illustrations, photographs and postcards dating from the 1850’s to the 1950’s are now easily accessible via the Web. More than 1,400 items in the collection have been digitized thus far, with a second phase of […]Posted in General | Tagged with collections, croquet, digitization, support
Asian Library hosts Poetry Launch
by Linda Ong on January 10, 2014
The Library is indispensable for authors and a gathering place for sharing, reflected poet Madhu Varshney at a launch of her most recent book of poems, Uthati Hilorein, at the Asian Library. Notable guests who attended the event included the extended Varshney family, Shri Ravi Shankar Aisola, the Consul General of India, members of the […]Posted in Events, General | Tagged with Asian Library, support