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By michelle blackwell on January 19, 2018
UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in Montecristo Magazine.
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By Jessica Woolman on January 7, 2018
UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured on CBC radio. The interview begins at the 2 hour 50 sec mark.
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By Jessica Woolman on January 6, 2018
UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in the Library Journal’s InfoDocket.
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By Jessica Woolman on January 5, 2018
UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in the Daily Hive.
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By Jessica Woolman on January 5, 2018
UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in Vancouver is Awesome.
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By michelle blackwell on January 4, 2018
The first edition of the Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was printed January 15, 1886.
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By Jessica Woolman on January 4, 2018
UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in the Vancouver Sun.
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By michelle blackwell on August 1, 2017
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.
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By michelle blackwell on August 23, 2016
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.
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By Clare Yow on March 23, 2016
Learn how the Library’s new acquisitions are enhancing teaching and learning at UBC.
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