A significant figure of pre-WWII Viennese cultural and social life, Wassermann Walker’s remarkable story has been relatively unknown until now.
The exhibit, curated by UBC iSchool student Ashlynn Prasad, features historical photographs of B.C. landmarks.
Take a tour of Rare Books and Special Collections collections every Thursday at 11 am.
Library PARC’s humidity- and temperature-controlled environment expands the shelf life of books. From the REMI Network.
From the Vancouver Sun
The Library’s Digitization Centre has helped UBC and CiTR archive a collection of radio clips from the 1940s and onwards.
Learn how the BC History Digitization Program, the UBC Library Digitization Centre, the UBC University Archives have contributed to this project in this Ubyssey article.
The Architizer blog covers UBC Library’s highly specialized PARC facility, built by DGBK Architects.
Alvan Bregman, UBC Library’s Head of Technical Services, comments in a University Affairs article about the theft of rare materials in Nova Scotia. Some of the items, including manuscripts and books, are believed to have been taken from university collections. “Archival thefts know no boundaries and many items are of irreplaceable cultural value,” says Bregman. […]
Artist Douglas Coupland adds to his personal archives at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections.