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Evening with renowned calligrapher Kataoka Shikō
Visit the UBC Asian Centre for a calligraphy lecture and demonstration on February 24.
Celebrate the Lunar New Year with UBC Library
Visit the Asian Centre on Friday, February 7 to ring in the Year of the Horse.
Library collaboration to unveil Chinese treasures
This innovative partnership is supported by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Asian Library hosts Poetry Launch
The Library is indispensable for authors and a gathering place for sharing, reflected poet Madhu Varshney at a launch of her most recent book of poems, Uthati Hilorein, at the Asian Library. Notable guests who attended the event included the extended Varshney family, Shri Ravi Shankar Aisola, the Consul General of India, members of the […]
Reconciliation at the Library
The Library is contributing to the campus-wide initiative by highlighting Indian Residential Schools in different contexts.
Preserving physical and digital collections
UBC Library’s Alvan Bregman brings his expertise to a new preservation program for physical and digital collections.
Collections moves update – Asian Library
All rare collections at the Asian Library, including the Puban and Pang Jingtang collections, have now been moved to Rare Books and Special Collections at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, in storage conditions that meet international standards. The removal of all materials from the vault on the ground floor of the Asian Library was […]
Retell, Rethink, Recover: Feb. 20 – April 30
UBC Library is hosting an exhibition and conference to commemorate the March 11, 2011 disasters in Japan. Retell, Rethink, Recover, which begins on February 20 and runs through April, consists of three phases on display in different parts of the Library system. The Retell section highlights disaster prints and historical maps. All materials are from […]
Spring book sale at Asian Library
Spring is back, and so is the Asian Library’s annual book sale! This sale, which is part of the Asian Library Open House, features new, used and hard-to-find books and magazines in different Asian languages (mainly Chinese and Korean), with some in English. Prices range from 10 cents to $10, but most titles are only 50 […]
Asian Library Open House 2011: Exhibits
The Asian Library and its partners are pleased to present two displays – Identiverse and Dimensions of the Asian World at UBC – as part of the Asian Library Open House 2011. The Asian Library worked with UBC’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory on the project. Viewers are invited to conceptualize “Asianness” […]