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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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
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.
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By michelle blackwell on April 19, 2018
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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.
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