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By Anna Moorhouse on January 30, 2023
An exhibition on display now at UBC Library’s Music, Art and Architecture (MAA) Library will soon be making a move to the University of Toronto Libraries.
Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with collections, community engagement, exhibitions, Music Art and Architecture Library
By Library Communications on January 26, 2023
UPDATE: Good news, most mechanical issues with the Automated Storage Retrieval System (ASRS) have been resolved. The Library will obtain any inaccessible ASRS material via interlibrary loan wherever possible.
Posted in General | Tagged with ASRS, Service Bulletins
By Anna Moorhouse on January 16, 2023
UBC librarians are embarking on a new collaborative research project that aims to address a fundamental problem in how open educational practices approach Indigenous Knowledges, and instead replicate colonial concepts of ownership and knowledge transfer.
Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with community engagement, Open Education, scholarly communications, Xwi7xwa Library
By matt patton on January 12, 2023
The UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research is now accepting applications until February 28, 2023. Available to all UBC undergraduate students.
By Anna Moorhouse on January 9, 2023
UBC Archives has received the collected archives of prominent theoretical physicist Dr. George Volkoff and microbiology researcher Olga Volkoff.
Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with archives, collections
By Library Communications on December 14, 2022
Results from UBC’s Digital Research Infrastructure needs assessment survey have been released as a joint report from UBC Library, and UBC Advanced Research Computing.
Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with Digital Research Infrastructure, Research Data Management, research learning and scholarship
By michelle blackwell on December 7, 2022
Dr. Parker joined UBC as University Librarian in 2017 and has been reappointed for a second five-year term, until August 2027.
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By matt patton on December 5, 2022
Kristen Wong, Program Services Assistant, shares her experience working with UBC Library’s Community Engagement team, supporting a wide variety of services that help connect UBC Library resources to surrounding communities and beyond.
Posted in General | Tagged with community engagement, IKBLC, Work with us
By Anna Moorhouse on November 21, 2022
UBC Library has made its first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies openly accessible to the public by publishing a digitized version of the volume online through Open Collections.
Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with Digitization Centre, open collections, RBSC, UBC First Folio
By michelle blackwell on November 10, 2022
Dr. Susan E. Parker, UBC’s University Librarian, will begin a one-year term as ARL president on January 1, 2023.
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