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UBC Library acquires access to digital newspaper historical archives from around the globe

UBC Library acquires access to digital newspaper historical archives from around the globe

By Anna Moorhouse on April 15, 2024

UBC faculty, staff and students can now access three new digital collections of newspapers. Explore digital archives for The Montreal Gazette, the Chinese Newspaper Collection, and Le Monde.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, digital collections, Humanities & Social Sciences Collections, Koerner Library

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UBC Library users now have access to over 80 new resources funded by the UBC President’s Academic Excellence Initiative

By Anna Moorhouse on March 18, 2024

UBC faculty, staff and students now have access to an extensive list of new digital archives, databases, ebooks, print resources and more through UBC Library, thanks to funding provided by the UBC President’s Academic Excellence Initiative.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, PAEI

UBC Library acquires digital database documenting the Black freedom struggle in 20th Century America

UBC Library acquires digital database documenting the Black freedom struggle in 20th Century America

By Anna Moorhouse on February 27, 2023

UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the NAACP Papers, a digitized collection of primary source materials documenting the civil rights organization’s major campaigns from 1909 to 1972.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, Black Studies, collections, Law Library

University Archives receives Volkoff Family archives

University Archives receives Volkoff Family archives

By Anna Moorhouse on January 9, 2023

UBC Archives has received the collected archives of prominent theoretical physicist Dr. George Volkoff and microbiology researcher Olga Volkoff.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, archives, collections

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

UBC Library acquires extensive photography book collection

UBC Library acquires extensive photography book collection

By Anna Moorhouse on July 20, 2022

UBC Library is excited to announce that the Music, Art and Architecture (MAA) Library in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre has acquired the Harry and Ann Malcolmson Photography Book Collection.

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

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 General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, digital collections

UBC Library acquires Afghan primary source databases

UBC Library acquires Afghan primary source databases

By Anna Moorhouse on April 12, 2022

UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the Afghan Serials Collection (DA-ASC) Partisan Publications from the Wahdat Library as well as the Afghan Central Press digital archive, addressing in part the needs of student and faculty conducting research in Afghan Studies.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, Asian Library, collections, digital archives, 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

University Archives receives extensive collection of photographs and records from UBC Department of Athletics & Recreation

University Archives receives extensive collection of photographs and records from UBC Department of Athletics & Recreation

By Anna Moorhouse on November 15, 2021

UBC Archives has received an extensive collection of materials from UBC’s Department of Athletics and Recreation, totalling nearly 8,000 photographs and textual records.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, UBC Athletics, University Archives

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