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Download the B.C. Historical Books digital colouring book: calendar edition
Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons with our new digital colouring book that doubles as a calendar. Celebrate #ColorOurCollections week with UBC Library’s ‘B.C. Historical Books’ themed digital colouring book.
Library service update to the Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery portal
The Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery (ILL/DD) software will be upgraded on December 16, 2020, to meet new requirements on the delivery of articles via post to web.
Printing Pick-up Service
The Library has launched a printing pick-up service to enable UBC students, faculty and staff to submit printing jobs to be picked up from the front desk at the Irving K. Barber Learning front desk during open hours, without booking a study space.
BC History Digitization Program now accepting applications for 2021/2022 funding year
The deadline for submission is Friday, December 18, 2020 at 5 p.m. PST.
Eugene Barsky wins the 2020 CARL Award of Merit
The award recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding local, regional, or national contribution within an area of research librarianship.
Read the UBC Library Digital Initiatives 2019/2020 Impact & Activity Reports online now
The Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office, the Digitization Centre, and cIRcle have each published their Impact and Activity Reports for the 2019/2020 fiscal year. Each report showcases some of the year’s highlights and accomplishments within Digital Initiatives.
UBC Library subscribes to LWW Health Library to address course needs for e-books
UBC Library has purchased temporary electronic access to approximately 200 titles in LWW Health Library to meet the new demand for remote teaching and learning materials for use in health sciences courses at UBC.
New Downtown Eastside Research Access Portal takes collaborative approach to Open Access
The DTES RAP provides access to research and research-related materials relevant to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside through an easy-to-use public interface.
UBC Library helps faculty and instructors publish open textbooks for their courses
Creating an open textbook is no simple task, but for some faculty and instructors, it’s the best solution when the resources they need for their courses don’t exist.
Dr. Susan E. Parker elected to the Association of Research Libraries’ Board of Directors
Dr. Susan E. Parker, UBC’s University Librarian, is the only representative from a Canadian institution on the board. She will serve a three-year term until 2023.