- 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.
- Arthur J. Ray wins the 2017 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for his examination of Aboriginal land claims litigation
- One of Canada’s most esteemed conservation scientists, Mary-Lou Florian, makes her most recent book available through UBC’s Open Collections
- UBC Library’s Open Collections front-end code selected as the basis for the National Federated Research Data Repository discovery platform
- UBC Library acquires a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer
- John Thistle wins 2016 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize
- Rare medieval manuscripts acquired