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UBC Library’s Joan Gillis Fonds is added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register

UBC Library’s Joan Gillis Fonds is added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register

By Library Communications on July 26, 2022

UBC Library’s Joan Gillis Fonds has been added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register in recognition of its historical value.

Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with acquisitions, Asian Library, collections, Japanese Canadian history, Joan Gillis Fonds, press release, Rare Books and Special Collections, UNESCO

UBC Library has acquired access to the digital archives of the Vancouver Sun newspaper

UBC Library has acquired access to the digital archives of the Vancouver Sun newspaper

By Anna Moorhouse on April 19, 2022

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.

Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, digital collections

I Know We’ll Meet Again: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal of Japanese Canadians

I Know We’ll Meet Again: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal of Japanese Canadians

By Library Communications on February 14, 2022

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.

Posted in Events | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, Japanese Canadian history, Joan Gillis Fonds, press release, Rare Books and Special Collections

UBC Library has acquired access to the digital archives of The Province newspaper

UBC Library has acquired access to the digital archives of The Province newspaper

By Anna Moorhouse on June 8, 2021

UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the digital archives of The Province newspaper from 1894 to 2010.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, digital collections

UBC Library users now have access to previously banned content that offers historical perspectives on sex, sexuality and gender.

UBC Library users now have access to previously banned content that offers historical perspectives on sex, sexuality and gender.

By michelle blackwell on March 31, 2020

Part III of Gale’s Archives of Sexuality and Gender provides access to nearly one million pages of unique and rare content.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections

The Book of Kells facsimile now on permanent display in UBC Library’s Ridington Room

The Book of Kells facsimile now on permanent display in UBC Library’s Ridington Room

By Anna Moorhouse on April 17, 2019

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.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, Music Art and Architecture Library, support

Hanne Wassermann Walker as photographed by Trude Fleischmann.

UBC Library acquires the personal archive of Hanne Wassermann Walker

By michelle blackwell on March 8, 2019

A significant figure of pre-WWII Viennese cultural and social life, Wassermann Walker’s remarkable story has been relatively unknown until now.

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with acquisitions, archives, collections, Rare Books and Special Collections, support

New partnership brings original documents from the French Revolution to UBC

New partnership brings original documents from the French Revolution to UBC

By michelle blackwell on November 14, 2018

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.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, community engagement, links, partnerships, Rare Books and Special Collections, special collections

From upper left corner: photo of Yosh Nakamura (July 1942); postcard from Setsuko Fuji to Joan Gillis (May 17, 1943); letter from Yosh Nakamura to Joan Gillis (July 25 1942); photo of young woman, Setsuko Fuji; and photo of Yosh Nakamura, Jackie Takahashi and friend on a tractor.

Protected: UBC Library acquires rare letters written by young Japanese Canadians during World War II

By michelle blackwell on April 19, 2018

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Posted in Press releases | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, Japanese Canadian history, Joan Gillis Fonds, press release, Rare Books and Special Collections

UBC Library’s rare and special Harry Potter collection of original first editions is now complete

UBC Library’s rare and special Harry Potter collection of original first editions is now complete

By Library Communications on March 5, 2018

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.

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, Harry Potter, Rare Books and Special Collections

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