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By Glenn Drexhage on November 6, 2013
Attend UBC’s Remembrance Day ceremony, and explore a wide range of Remembrance Day resources at UBC Library.
Posted in General | Tagged with Chung Collection, cIRcle, Digital Initiatives, Education Library, Japanese Canadian history, Rare Books and Special Collections, Xwi7xwa Library
By Jessica Woolman on September 27, 2013
Find out more about what cIRcle, UBC’s institutional repository, can do for you.
Posted in General | Tagged with accessibility, cIRcle, community engagement, engineering, graduate students, open access
By Jessica Woolman on February 19, 2013
The Open Scholar Award is open to UBC Vancouver graduate students. Submissions close March 31.
Posted in Events, General | Tagged with awards, cIRcle, graduate students, research learning and scholarship, scholarly communications
By Glenn Drexhage on January 31, 2013
University Librarian Ingrid Parent’s remarks about the challenges and opportunities facing UBC Library, and research libraries around the world, are highlighted in the Fall 2012 issue of the CPSLD Newsletter. Other news includes the Library’s jump in ARL standings; a collaborative agreement between UBC Library and the Peking University Library; a tribute to Basil Stuart-Stubbs, UBC’s former University […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with Basil Stuart-Stubbs, cIRcle, library changes, Media coverage, Peking University Library
By Glenn Drexhage on October 24, 2012
Congratulations are due to the first winners of a new award launched by UBC’s digital repository and the UBC Vancouver Graduate Student Society (GSS). The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award launched this past summer. Its aims are to feature UBC as a leader in the open dissemination of exemplary non-thesis graduate coursework; and to create […]
By Jessica Woolman on May 15, 2012
Want to find a UBC thesis on the biological feasibility of Pacific oyster and California sea cucumber polyculture, but not sure where to start? How about guidelines on mine haul road design from the School of Engineering at the Okanagan campus? Have no fear — cIRcle, UBC’s digital repository, is here to help users near […]
Posted in General | Tagged with cIRcle, Community Report, digital libraries, research learning and scholarship, strategic plan, UBC Okanagan
By Glenn Drexhage on February 2, 2012
UBC Library’s Winter Update appears in the new issue of the BCLA Browser (Volume 4, no.1), the newsletter of the British Columbia Library Association. Have a read and find out about the exceptional Videomatica film collection being housed and preserved by UBC and SFU; the B.C. Historical Newspapers Project; a CLIR meeting at UBC Library; […]
Posted in General | Tagged with BCHDP, cIRcle, CLIR, Great Reads, Live-in for Literacy, Media coverage, Rare Books and Special Collections, Videomatica
By Glenn Drexhage on January 26, 2012
In December, William Henry Magee’s 1946 Master of Arts thesis – entitled The growth of Canadian national feeling as reflected in the poetry and novels of English Canada – became the 30,000th item submitted to the UBC Retrospective Theses and Dissertation (RTD) collection in cIRcle, UBC’s digital repository. The goal of the RTD project is […]
By Jessica Woolman on October 31, 2011
Are you interested in mining? The proceedings of the upcoming Tailings and Mine Waste 2011 conference (TMW) will soon be publicly available in cIRcle, UBC’s institutional repository. The conference will be held in Vancouver November 6 to 9, 2011. Organized by the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at UBC, in conjunction with Colorado […]
Posted in General | Tagged with cIRcle, conference, engineering, mining
By Glenn Drexhage on March 11, 2011
It may be a year since the 2010 Winter and Paralympic Games ended – but cIRcle is keeping the spirit, debate and dialogue that helped define the event alive. cIRcle – also known as UBC’s information repository (https://circle.ubc.ca/) – is a digital storehouse for the University’s intellectual output. The site, which launched in 2008 by […]
Posted in General | Tagged with cIRcle, digital libraries, olympics