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By Anna Moorhouse on June 6, 2022
As part of Indigenous History Month, a new exhibit has launched in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. View featured materials from Xwi7xwa’s Indigenous language collection, and learn how the branch supports language revitalization on campus and in the community.
Posted in Carousel, Events | Tagged with indigenous, Indigenous History Month, Xwi7xwa Library
By Anna Moorhouse on May 5, 2022
Join us online on May 12, during Celebrate Learning Week at UBC, to hear how the library users are engaging with the Asian Library collections and services.
Posted in Events | Tagged with Asian Library, research learning and scholarship
By phoebe chan on March 31, 2022
On UBC Giving Day, April 6, we come together to support students and our world. This year’s Giving Day project involves the digitization of UBC’s 1623 Shakespeare First Folio, which will provide opportunities for UBC iSchool students to hone their skills in the digitization of rare books by working in the UBC Library Digitization Centre to make the First Folio accessible to anyone, anywhere, and at any time.
Posted in Events | Tagged with digitization, GivingDay, rare books, Rare Books and Special Collections, ShakespeareFirstFolio, UBCGivingDay, UBCLibrary
By Library Communications on March 7, 2022
Open Education Week at UBC runs from March 7-11. Check out all the exciting events coming up and learn more about Open UBC.
Posted in Events | Tagged with oeweek, Open Education, Open Education Week, openubc
By Library Communications on March 1, 2022
Honouring Indigenous Writers seeks to increase awareness of Indigenous literature and improve the coverage of Indigenous writers on Wikipedia. Join us for an exciting schedule of free events throughout the month of March!
Posted in Events | Tagged with Honouring Indigenous Writers, Open Education Week, Open UBC
By phoebe chan on February 14, 2022
Join UBC Library for an international celebration of data during Love Data Week dedicated to spreading the awareness and importance of research data through a series of workshops held online between February 14th and 18th.
Posted in Events | Tagged with data, lovedata, lovedataweek, open data, opendata
By Library Communications on February 14, 2022
Join this online public panel event inspired by the Joan Gillis fonds, a remarkable collection of letters that recount the lives of a group of Japanese Canadian teenagers after their forced dispersal from the coastal regions of British Columbia in 1942.
Posted in Events | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, Japanese Canadian history, press release, Rare Books and Special Collections
By Anna Moorhouse on February 8, 2022
Join Forest(Reads), a virtual book club on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Forestry, the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC Library and the Simon KY Lee Global Lounge and Resource Centre.
Posted in Events | Tagged with book club, climate, community engagement
By phoebe chan on February 7, 2022
Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated birds in nature that doubles as a calendar.
Posted in Carousel, Events, General | Tagged with BC History, birds, birds in nature, children's literature, collections, Digital Initiatives, links, open collections
By Anna Moorhouse on November 1, 2021
Join this week of webinars and workshops exploring the practice of open scholarship, and hear from UBC colleagues who are incorporating “openness” in innovative ways to enhance teaching, research, and public impact.
Posted in Events | Tagged with accessibility, community engagement, links, open access, open data, Open Education