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UBC Library has acquired access to the digital archives of the Vancouver Sun newspaper
UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the digital archives of The Vancouver Sun newspaper from 1912 to 2010. Library users will have access to not only the articles, but to the entire published page in these fully searchable archives.
I Know We’ll Meet Again: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal of Japanese Canadians
Join this online public panel event inspired by the Joan Gillis fonds, a remarkable collection of letters that recount the lives of a group of Japanese Canadian teenagers after their forced dispersal from the coastal regions of British Columbia in 1942.
UBC Library has acquired access to the digital archives of The Province newspaper
UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the digital archives of The Province newspaper from 1894 to 2010.
UBC Library users now have access to previously banned content that offers historical perspectives on sex, sexuality and gender.
Part III of Gale’s Archives of Sexuality and Gender provides access to nearly one million pages of unique and rare content.
The Book of Kells facsimile now on permanent display in UBC Library’s Ridington Room
The Book of Kells facsimile, which was acquired by UBC Library’s Rare Book & Special Collections in 1990, now resides in a secure, purpose-built display case, accessible to the UBC community.
UBC Library acquires the personal archive of Hanne Wassermann Walker
A significant figure of pre-WWII Viennese cultural and social life, Wassermann Walker’s remarkable story has been relatively unknown until now.
New partnership brings original documents from the French Revolution to UBC
Students, researchers and the wider community can now access original pamphlets from the French Revolution thanks to a partnership between UBC Library and French, Hispanic and Italian Studies.
UBC Library acquires rare letters written by young Japanese Canadians during World War II
The collection of 147 letters provides unique insight into the devastating effects of the Japanese Canadian internment.
UBC Library’s rare and special Harry Potter collection of original first editions is now complete
UBC Library has now completed its Harry Potter collection of original first editions with the recent acquisition of a U.K. first edition, first printing of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Vancouver’s First Newspaper
UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in Montecristo Magazine.