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Old Streams project featured on Straight.com, Granville Online
The Old Streams project – which involves UBC Library and the Vancouver Aquarium – is featured on the Georgia Straight‘s website and Granville Online. UBC Library has digitized the content of the Aquarium’s paper maps from the 1970s, allowing users to discover Vancouver’s vanished streams and waterways. You can view the articles here and here, […]
UBC Library and Vancouver Aquarium reveal Vancouver’s secret waterways
Media Release | Jul. 19, 2011 Vancouver’s vanished streams and waterways can be discovered once again thanks to a digitization project involving UBC Library and the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre. UBC Library digitized the content of the Aquarium’s paper maps from the 1970s, allowing both scholars and the public to see the paths of […]
UBC Library in open access Partnership journal
An article from UBC Library’s Science and Engineering team appears in the open access journal Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. The piece, entitled “Teaching Matters: Increasing Library Visibility through Integrated Classroom Instruction,” is by Eugene Barsky (Librarian), Aleteia Greenwood (Head) and Kevin Read (student librarian and student at UBC’s […]
UBC Library in the BCLA Browser (Vol. 3, No. 3)
Find out about the latest developments at UBC Library in the new issue of the BCLA Browser (Volume 3, Number 3). The Features section includes news about University Librarian Ingrid Parent taking on the presidency of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions; a new Director for the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre; the […]
Information Literacy: Digging Deeper for Understanding in a Digital World
UBC’s Education Library hosted an information literacy mini-conference for secondary student teachers (teacher candidates) called “Digging Deeper for Understanding-Using Information Smarts in a Digital World” on June 8, 2011. The mini-conference was planned collaboratively with Dr. Kedrick James, a faculty member in the Department of Language and Literacy Education and Jo-Anne Naslund, Instructional Services librarian […]
UBC Library helps furnish schools, non-profit organizations
A piece of UBC Library now resides in the tiny Dora Drinkwater Community Library on Denman Island, B.C.
Expanding access to Earth and Ocean Sciences
Earth sciences researchers can now access and explore more relevant research thanks to cIRcle, UBC’s institutional repository. cIRcle is the University of British Columbia’s digital repository for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners. With more than 34,000 items freely accessible to anyone on the web, cIRcle offers continued […]
Storied UK periodicals at UBC Library
Fascinating accounts of British history and culture are now available via UBC Library, thanks to new online periodical collections. 19th Century UK Periodicals is a major new collection covering the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th-century world. To date, two parts of the five-part series have been released. Part 1 marks the […]
UBC Library Spaces
View “UBC Library Spaces” on Storify
Building the future with the Canaccord Learning Commons
Students from UBC’s Sauder School of Business have flocked to the new Canaccord Learning Commons (CLC) since it opened in February. The CLC, which is Canada’s first dedicated learning commons within a business school, was made possible through a $1.5- million donation from Vancouver’s Canaccord Financial Inc. It’s an excellent example of UBC Library’s desire […]