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UBC Library Communications team behind the 2016 Open Access Awareness campaign. Designer Jasmine Devonshire, Photographer and Videographer Clare Yow, Director Becky Potvin and Strategist Michelle Blackwell.

UBC Library first academic library to win Gold at CPRS National Awards of Excellence.

By michelle blackwell on June 1, 2017

UBC Library’s 2016 Open Access Awareness campaign selected as the Gold winner for the 2017 CPRS Digital Communications campaign of the year.

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Arthur Ray wins the 2017 Canada Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences

By Jessica Woolman on May 23, 2017

Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize-winner Arthur Ray has won the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences 2017 Canada Prize.

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Citizen archive project receives award

By michelle blackwell on March 9, 2017

The Prince George Newspapers Digitization Project was honoured with the Jeanne Clarke local history award for service at the Bob Harkins branch of the Prince George Public Library.

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Arthur J. Ray wins the 2017 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for his examination of Aboriginal land claims litigation

By michelle blackwell on March 8, 2017

UBC Professor Emeritus Arthur J. Ray wins the 2017 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History.

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Annual croquet research prize

By Jessica Woolman on February 23, 2017

UBC Library now accepting submissions for 2nd annual Arkley Croquet Collection Prize.

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Bronwen Sprout Winner of 2016 COPPUL Outstanding Contribution Award

By Clare Yow on October 27, 2016

The Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) is pleased to recognize Bronwen Sprout of the University of British Columbia Library with its 2016 Outstanding Contribution Award.

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Of horses and grasshoppers

By Clare Yow on July 28, 2016

BC BookLook covers John Thistle’s win of the 4th annual Basil Stuart-Stubbs Award for Outstanding Scholarly Book on B.C., presented at UBC Library on June 9, 2016.

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Recipients of 2016 Library Recognition Awards announced

By Clare Yow on June 16, 2016

Three UBC Library employees have been recognized with the Employee Excellence, Unsung Hero, and Innovation Award.

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Quill and Quire: John Thistle wins 2016 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize

By Clare Yow on June 2, 2016

Researcher John Thistle has been named winner of this year’s UBC Library Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for his first book.

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John Thistle wins 2016 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize