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By Jessica Woolman on June 2, 2011
Meet Dean Giustini, Reference Librarian and blogger at UBC’s Biomedical Branch Library at Vancouver General Hospital. What’s been the biggest change to health libraries and librarianship that you’ve encountered during your career? Two equally important trends that have changed health libraries and librarianship are: 1) the shift to digital forms of medical information and 2) […]
Posted in General | Tagged with digital libraries, literacy, social media
By Glenn Drexhage on May 31, 2011
UBC’s Asian Library, in collaboration with the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum and Archives, presents Where Did the Immigrants Actually Come From? This exhibit, first shown in the Asian Library in 2010, was followed by a two-year project that involved mapping the villages and towns recorded in the Head Tax database. The exhibit runs Tuesday to […]
Posted in Events, General | Tagged with Chinese Canadian history, exhibits, immigration
By Glenn Drexhage on May 30, 2011
Hey hockey fans – are you feeling Stanley Cup fever? Then tap into some hockey history courtesy of UBC Library – and impress fellow fans with your knowledge of the Vancouver Canucks and insights into the Canada’s storied sporting pastime. From anecdotes to kids’ lit, biographies to bibliographies, we’ve got something for everyone who’s […]
By Glenn Drexhage on May 20, 2011
Generation:1 is an exhibit at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre that showcases the artworks of local Asian Canadian artists. Since 1996, the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society has endeavoured to explore the diversity of Asian Canadian life and culture and promote the discussion of relevant issues and concerns within and beyond the Asian-Canadian community. 2011 […]
Posted in Events, General | Tagged with art, Asian history, exhibits, IKBLC
By Jessica Woolman on May 11, 2011
Dr. William C. Gibson, one of the Library’s strongest and mostenduring supporters, passed away last year at the age of 95.
By Jessica Woolman on May 11, 2011
As a boy, Tom Brittnacher was obsessed by transportation and maps – interests that ended up playing a pivotal role in his career choice. Brittnacher, UBC Library’s first Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Librarian, arrived last year to develop a new service to support research on campus with spatial analysis.In June, an opening reception was held […]
Posted in General | Tagged with faculty, profile, research learning and scholarship
By Glenn Drexhage on May 10, 2011
Read all about it: UBC Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of digital newspaper archives that chronicle life during past centuries in the United Kingdom and the U.S. The 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers digital archive features about 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom. It totals nearly one million […]
Posted in General | Tagged with archives, digital archives
By Glenn Drexhage on May 5, 2011
Good news for business researchers: the David Lam Library continues to enhance its Business FAQs database, which was launched in December 2010. The FAQs, designed to answer common questions about the David Lam Library and business research, can be searched by keyword or browsed by category. The database is based on the Business FAQs at […]
Posted in General | Tagged with business, David Lam Library, research learning and scholarship
By Glenn Drexhage on April 21, 2011
To all of UBC Library’s users: Please note that there will be changes to the Library’s opening hours over the Easter weekend and the remainder of April. For a complete list of upcoming hours of operation at the Library’s branches and divisions visit the UBC Library website.
By Glenn Drexhage on April 18, 2011
Community outreach is the theme of the second e-newsletter from Chinese Canadian Stories: Uncommon Histories from a Common Past, an initiative of UBC Library and Simon Fraser University Library. Stories include updates on a community workshop at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, interviews with the Vancouver Sun and Fairchild Radio, and a Toishan letters […]
Posted in General | Tagged with Asian history, Chinese Canadian history, stories