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UBC Library
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Finding Nothing: Author Talk with Dr. Gregory Betts
Join Dr. Gregory Betts in the Peña Room at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on October 28 to discuss his recent book, Finding Nothing: The VanGardes, 1959-1975.
UBC Library 2021/22 Senate Report
UBC Library’s annual Senate Report is now available. Read about our highlights from the past fiscal year, which include advancing research, learning and scholarship, engaging with communities, inspiring with innovative spaces and services and stewarding the organization. Learn how the library transitioned back to fully in-person operations on campus in September 2021, kicking off a year of hybrid teaching, learning and work.
How UBC Library is rethinking problematic Indigenous representations in children’s literature
What do you do with problematic materials in a library collection—with books that are outdated, that perpetuate stereotypes, depict cultural appropriation, or include racism and other harmful elements?
UBC Library joins the IIIF Consortium
IIIF standardizes the delivery of images and audio/visual files from servers to different environments on the web.
Celebrate Learning with Asian Library
Join us online on May 12, during Celebrate Learning Week at UBC, to hear how the library users are engaging with the Asian Library collections and services.
UBC Library becomes first Canadian institution to join Dryad membership
As the first institutional member of Dryad in Canada, UBC Library joins a thriving global community of universities, research institutions and academic libraries all working together to promote data publishing, curation, and preservation.
The UBC Library Research Commons helps UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster visualize research outputs
The UBC Library Research Commons partnered with the UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster to find a workflow that would create graphical representations of the cluster’s publication information.
UBC Library launches Open Publishing Program to support UBC faculty, staff, and student-led open journals and texts
UBC Library currently hosts 30 active open access journals by providing server space, support, and access to Open Journal Systems (OJS).
Open Access Week runs October 25-31
RSVP for events and learn more about what Open Access, Open Education and Open Research mean for researchers, students and faculty.
Xwi7xwa Library brings an integrative approach and Indigenous knowledge systems to pharmacy education
This year, Xwi7xwa Library and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences launched a new type of course activity which takes an integrative approach to pharmaceutical care, community research ethics, and library skills.