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By Jessica Woolman on September 6, 2011
Overwrought ballerinas in Various Positions. Anglo-Saxon poetry forged by Curious Masonry. Something Fierce in the history of Chile. Progress choked in a small working-class town. All these titles and the Man Booker Prize for Fiction nominee Esi Edugyan are just some of the delights to come as the Robson Reading Series launches its 2011 fall […]
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By Jessica Woolman on July 29, 2011
In honour of the City of Vancouver’s 125th birthday, an exhibition highlighting the voyages of George Vancouver is on display at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections on level one of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. For more information, visit events.ubc.ca or the Rare Books and Special Collections blog.
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By Jessica Woolman on July 4, 2011
UBC’s Education Library hosted an information literacy mini-conference for secondary student teachers (teacher candidates) called “Digging Deeper for Understanding-Using Information Smarts in a Digital World” on June 8, 2011. The mini-conference was planned collaboratively with Dr. Kedrick James, a faculty member in the Department of Language and Literacy Education and Jo-Anne Naslund, Instructional Services librarian […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on June 21, 2011
An exhibition of UBC Library items related to the American Civil War is now on display at Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC). April 12, 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. The first major battle took place in July 1861, and for four years war the Union (North) and […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on May 31, 2011
UBC’s Asian Library, in collaboration with the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum and Archives, presents Where Did the Immigrants Actually Come From? This exhibit, first shown in the Asian Library in 2010, was followed by a two-year project that involved mapping the villages and towns recorded in the Head Tax database. The exhibit runs Tuesday to […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on May 20, 2011
Generation:1 is an exhibit at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre that showcases the artworks of local Asian Canadian artists. Since 1996, the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society has endeavoured to explore the diversity of Asian Canadian life and culture and promote the discussion of relevant issues and concerns within and beyond the Asian-Canadian community. 2011 […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on April 4, 2011
The Vancouver Institute Presents The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lecture Eaarth: Making a Life On a Tough New Planet April 9, 2011 – 8:15 p.m. Professor William McKibben Scholar in Residence Middlebury College, Vermont Described by the Boston Globe as “the nation’s leading environmentalist,” Professor McKibben is the author of more than a dozen […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on March 8, 2011
The Asian Library and its partners are pleased to present two displays – Identiverse and Dimensions of the Asian World at UBC – as part of the Asian Library Open House 2011. The Asian Library worked with UBC’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory on the project. Viewers are invited to conceptualize “Asianness” […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on March 3, 2011
UBC Library is proud to be part of Celebrate Research Week at UBC, which takes place March 4-11, 2011 and highlights research excellence across UBC’s faculties, departments, schools and partner institutions. You can find out more about this event here. INNOVATIVE DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH AWARD In 2010, the Library launched the Innovative Dissemination of Research […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on February 28, 2011
Canadiana enthusiasts can take in an exhibition that highlights the history of the Canadian flag, the flag debates of the first half of the 20th century and the now-familiar Maple Leaf flag. The exhibit, which runs until March 9, is at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections division, located on the lower level of […]
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