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New digital acquisition: CITR audiotapes spanning 70 years
These audio recordings are a cultural record of student life and voices from the UBC community spanning 70 years.
Celebrate Science Literacy Week 2016
Visit Woodward Library from September 19-25 for a series of activities during this nationally celebrated event.
Meet Roxanne Kalenborn, Student Employee
Learn about the work experiences of one Master of Library and Information Studies graduate student working at UBC Library.
Q&A with novelist and UBC alumna Shannon Selin
We spoke with Shannon about the extensive research she does for her books and how UBC Library and Collections have played a crucial role.
Take a tour of Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC)
Take a tour of Rare Books and Special Collections collections every Thursday at 11 am.
UBC Library acquires a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer
UBC Library has acquired a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer, one of the world’s most extraordinary books. Printed in a limited edition of only 438 copies, the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published by William Morris’s Kelmscott Press in 1896.
West Coast Expressions Exhibit Features BC Creatives
West Coast Expressions is a new exhibit is on display at Irving K Barber Learning Centre. The exhibit highlights eight influential British Columbia creative icons, spanning the industries of fine art, architecture and music.
UBC radio archive clips find new audience online
The Library’s Digitization Centre has helped UBC and CiTR archive a collection of radio clips from the 1940s and onwards.
Listen to 65 years of UBC history from CiTR’s newly updated archive
Learn how the BC History Digitization Program, the UBC Library Digitization Centre, the UBC University Archives have contributed to this project in this Ubyssey article.
Meet Shirin Eshghi, Head of Asian Library
A key priority of her role moving forward will be to draw in an international perspective: Shirin will share the value of the Asian Library collections as it extends to a number of faculties and areas of research.