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RBSC participates in Archives Week
Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) is participating in Archives Week, which runs from November 16-22. The event is organized by the Archives Association of British Columbia, and this year the theme is “Taking Care of Business: the Heritage of Trade and Commerce.” As part of this effort, RBSC offers an introduction to Yip Sang, […]
Tony Harrison: Workshop on Speaking Verse
Tony Harrison and award-winning actress Sian Thomas lead a master class at UBC on reading poetry aloud and delivering verse in performance. Some participants will have the opportunity to continue working with Harrison and Thomas on the delivery of verse and to perform scenes from Harrison’s plays as part of his final event at UBC […]
LOOP exhibition at Koerner Library
Danny Askew// Kath Blair// Nancy Chang// Alex Coates// Jessica Delisle// Chris Hettel// Julia Higgs// Heather Kaytor// Jason Lee// Andrew Lunny// Elnaz Maassoumian// Lauren Mckenna// Robin Mcnulty// Felix Suen// Max Taffet// Pia Ugarte// Andrea Van Schubert// Brendan Williams LOOP presents works by UBC students from VISA (Visual Art) 470A. Explore the nature and perception of TIME […]
Thumbsucker: Book Art at the Learning Centre
Thumbsucker, a riveting exhibition of book objects, is on display at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The works were created by Visual Art Theory students at UBC in a 300-level course taught by Christine D’Onofrio. In D’Onofrio’s words, “An essential emptiness is what Thumbsucker seeks to find, but the promise of wanting something more […]
UBC Library Acquires Keenlyside Legal Research Collection
A riveting collection that highlights the effects of B.C.’s colonial justice system on Chinese and Aboriginal populations is now available at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC). The John Keenlyside Legal Research Collection features court cases involving Chinese and Aboriginal people as both witnesses and defendants. The documents reveal how the 19th-century justice […]
Chapbooks on display at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections
Fans of ephemeral literature are invited to visit a campus display of 19th-century English chapbooks at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC). Chapbooks are booklets that were popular in rural areas and towns from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and ranged from jestbooks to histories of depraved criminals, medieval romances to song […]
Digital collection of Emma Crosby letters available online
An illuminating set of letters from the wife of a prominent Methodist missionary in B.C. is now freely available online. The letters from Emma Crosby (1849-1926) provide a fascinating glimpse into the missionary experience. Due to her gender, Emma was not able to become a missionary, although her husband Thomas served as one on the […]
UBC Okanagan Library newsletter – Spring 2008
The latest issue of UBC’s Okanagan Library newsletter includes an update on renovations to the Field Reading Room, the WILU Information Literacy Conference, LibQUAL and laptop lending. The Spring 2008 issue is available online, as well as past issues.
Congress 2008 at UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
The following events take place at UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in conjunction with the 2008 Congress of the Humanities and Sciences (www.fedcan.ca/congress2008). Anne of Green Gables: A Literary Icon at 100 Exhibition schedule: May 31 to June 8, 2008 Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall Exhibit Opening & […]
UBCIC digital collections launched, with support from Learning Centre program
The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) has launched several new digital collections. These were supported in part by the BC History Digitization Program, which was launched by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. You can view the news release here: http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/News_Releases/UBCICNews05070801.htm And you can view the collections here: http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/Resources/Digital/