- UBC Library’s Chung Collection is added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register
- UBC Library acquires the personal archive of Hanne Wassermann Walker
- Daniel Marshall wins the 2019 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for his illuminating narrative of the 1858 Fraser River Valley gold rush.
- UBC Library acquires rare letters written by young Japanese Canadians during World War II
- Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace win the 2018 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for their exploration of Secwépemc history told through Indigenous knowledge and oral traditions.
- UBC Library’s rare and special Harry Potter collection of original first editions is now complete
- UBC Library acquires the first item ever printed in Vancouver.
- Heather Berringer awarded 2017 Dal SIM Outstanding Alumni Award
- UBC Library acquires first known account of British Columbia by an English woman
- UBC Library first academic library to win Gold at CPRS National Awards of Excellence.