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By michelle blackwell on June 1, 2017
UBC Library’s 2016 Open Access Awareness campaign selected as the Gold winner for the 2017 CPRS Digital Communications campaign of the year.
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By michelle blackwell on March 8, 2017
UBC Professor Emeritus Arthur J. Ray wins the 2017 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History.
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By michelle blackwell on October 24, 2016
Mary-Lou Florian, one of Canada’s most esteemed conservation scientists, has made her new book, Comparative Anatomy of Branches, Roots and Wood of Some North American Dicotyledonous and Coniferous Trees and Woody Shrubs Used in Ethnographic Artifacts: Identification and Conservation Concerns available through UBC’s cIRcle Digital Repository.
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By michelle blackwell on October 24, 2016
UBC Library’s Open Collections code selected as the basis for the National Federated Research Data Repository discovery platform.
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By michelle blackwell on August 23, 2016
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.
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By Clare Yow on June 2, 2016
Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia is awarded UBC Library’s annual book prize.
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By Clare Yow on March 23, 2016
Learn how the Library’s new acquisitions are enhancing teaching and learning at UBC.
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By Jasmine Devonshire on March 15, 2016
A new exhibition of historic photography at Presentation House Gallery explores the dramatic changes taking place in British Columbia from 1860 to the early twentieth century, as the colonial territory on the west coast of North America joined Canada and entered an era of rapid transformation.
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By Clare Yow on March 1, 2016
Learn more about the three books shortlisted for best scholarly book published on a British Columbia subject by a Canadian author.
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By Jessica Woolman on July 7, 2015
Papyri scraps from 1,800 years ago were recently rediscovered in UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections.
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