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By phoebe chan on April 28, 2025
At UBC Library, many hands and hundreds of hours are helping to bring a unique Japanese book collection alive. Learn about the journey of an ambitious dream and all the steps it took to bring the collection online.
Posted in Carousel | Tagged with Asian Library, Conservation Space, Digitization Centre, Japanese Collections, open collections
By Anna Moorhouse on February 24, 2025
Since its launch on UBC Open Collections, the digitized Tairiku Nippō has been viewed more than 2.5 million times by scholars from around the world.
Posted in General | Tagged with Asian Library, collections
By Library Communications on January 30, 2025
Dive deeper into this exhibit, on display at UBC Asian Library, that explores the polyvocality of Chinese Canadian and Korean Canadian communities in British Columbia.
Posted in General | Tagged with Asian Library, community engagement, exhibitions, exhibits, RBSC
By phoebe chan on July 8, 2024
UBC Asian Library has benefited from two substantial renovation projects on both the upper and main floors of the branch. The reimagined space includes extensive improvements to seating and study spaces, much needed repairs, and an overhaul of the book collection stacks and displays.
Posted in General | Tagged with Asian Library, library spaces, renovation, renovations, spaces, spaces and services
By Anna Moorhouse on May 29, 2024
UBC Library has been named as the successful recipient of a Toshiba International Foundation grant to support the conservation and digitization of select Premodern Japanese materials in UBC Asian Library’s collections.
Posted in General | Tagged with Asian Library, Japanese Collections
By Anna Moorhouse on November 7, 2023
UBC Library has acquired several rare titles as part of its Japanese Collections, thanks in part to support provided by the David Graham Memorial Fund.
Posted in General | Tagged with Asian Library, Japanese Collections, open collections
By matt patton on October 27, 2023
The UBC community is invited to experience the diversity of South Asian culture through music, dance, and delicious refreshments.
Posted in Events | Tagged with Asian Library, diwali
By admin on September 6, 2023
This year’s festival features programming by Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) and the Asian Library on September 16.
Posted in Events | Tagged with Asian Library, community events, Rare Books and Special Collections, RBSC, Vancouver Word Festival
By Library Communications on March 20, 2023
Reading classical Japanese cursive script, a pre-modern style of writing, is both a challenge and an art, requiring training and time.
Posted in General | Tagged with Asian Library, research learning and scholarship, Teaching and Learning Stories
By Library Communications on December 13, 2022
Join us at the Museum of Vancouver on January 6 for an illuminating discussion panel on World War II Japanese Canadian Internment.
Posted in Events | Tagged with Asian Library, community engagement, IKBLC, Japanese Canadian history