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UBC Library acquires the first item ever printed in Vancouver.
The first edition of the Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was printed January 15, 1886.
Heather Berringer awarded 2017 Dal SIM Outstanding Alumni Award
Dalhousie University’s School of Information Management has recognized Heather Berringer, UBC Okanagan’s Chief Librarian, with the 2017 Outstanding Alumni Award. This annual award honours a member who has made an outstanding contribution to Library and Information Management.
UBC Library acquires first known account of British Columbia by an English woman
The journal kept by Susannah Weynton documents four months spent on Vancouver Island at Fort Victoria and Fort Rupert and on the mainland at Fort Langley between March and July 1850.
UBC Library first academic library to win Gold at CPRS National Awards of Excellence.
UBC Library’s 2016 Open Access Awareness campaign selected as the Gold winner for the 2017 CPRS Digital Communications campaign of the year.
Arthur J. Ray wins the 2017 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for his examination of Aboriginal land claims litigation
UBC Professor Emeritus Arthur J. Ray wins the 2017 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History.
One of Canada’s most esteemed conservation scientists, Mary-Lou Florian, makes her most recent book available through UBC’s Open Collections
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.
UBC Library’s Open Collections front-end code selected as the basis for the National Federated Research Data Repository discovery platform
UBC Library’s Open Collections code selected as the basis for the National Federated Research Data Repository discovery platform.
UBC Library acquires a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer
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.
John Thistle wins 2016 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize
Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia is awarded UBC Library’s annual book prize.
Rare medieval manuscripts acquired
Learn how the Library’s new acquisitions are enhancing teaching and learning at UBC.