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UBC Library achieves funding goal for the George Bowering Reading Room
Thanks to the generous support and dedication of our contributors and champions, the George Bowering Collection and Reading Room in Rare Books and Special Collections at UBC Library has become a reality!
Exploring Tairiku Nippō: A historical Japanese Canadian newspaper at UBC Library
Since its launch on UBC Open Collections, the digitized Tairiku Nippō has been viewed more than 2.5 million times by scholars from around the world.
Meet Amity Chiang, Human Resources Coordinator at UBC Library
Learn how Amity Chiang, HR Coordinator, is helping to promote a safe, inclusive, and engaged community at UBC Library.
UBC Library brings Repair Café to UBC Climate Emergency Week
UBC Library will be hosting a Repair Café on the Main Floor of Woodward Library on February 13, as part of Climate Emergency Week at UBC.
Within the Gaps: Intracommunity Voices in Chinese Canadian and Korean Canadian Records
Dive deeper into this exhibit, on display at UBC Asian Library, that explores the polyvocality of Chinese Canadian and Korean Canadian communities in British Columbia.
A dying wish, forgotten boxes, and a lost Holocaust archive rediscovered
Creative writing professor Timothy Taylor uncovers his family’s hidden wartime history through his grandfather’s diaries and letters, to be preserved with help from the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and UBC Library.
UBC Library receives Peter Wall Institute Archives
UBC Archives has acquired the institutional records of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS), which was founded at UBC in 1991 to focus on interdisciplinary research.
2025 UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research now accepting applications
The UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research is now accepting applications until February 28, 2025.
Behind the screens: How UBC Library contributes to virtual reference service AskAway
For more than a decade, AskAway has been providing students, faculty, and staff with real-time, virtual access to research and reference support.
Season’s Greetings from UBC Library
2024 was a year of exciting new beginnings at UBC Library. Across our branches and services—and alongside many partners—we launched innovative new initiatives, improved many of our spaces, welcomed new faces and so much more.