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By reiza gabriel on February 15, 2023
UBC has launched its research data management strategy, which outlines six goals and 21 recommendations for how the university can enhance support for the collection, documentation, storage, sharing and preservation of research data.
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By Library Communications on February 14, 2023
Find resources at Xwi7xwa Library to learn more about the annual MMIWG2S+ Memorial March, which takes place every Valentine’s Day in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
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By phoebe chan on February 6, 2023
Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated animals in nature that doubles as a calendar.
Posted in Events, General | Tagged with animal kingdom, BC History, collections, Digital Initiatives, links, open collections
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.
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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