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Download the new ‘Maps and Landscapes’ digital colouring book series

Download the new ‘Maps and Landscapes’ digital colouring book series

By Katya Roxas on October 22, 2019

Experience history at the tip of your pencil crayons with our new ‘Maps and Landscapes’ themed digital colouring book series.

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, Digital Initiatives, links, open collections, Rare Books and Special Collections

UBC Seed Lending Library is building a budding community

UBC Seed Lending Library is building a budding community

By michelle blackwell on October 3, 2019

Borrow a variety of high-quality vegetable, herb, and flower seeds that are well-suited to local growing conditions free of charge from the Woodward and Education libraries.

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, community engagement

UBC Library hosts exhibit that captures the continual impact of iconic Asian Canadian Jim Wong-Chu

UBC Library hosts exhibit that captures the continual impact of iconic Asian Canadian Jim Wong-Chu

By michelle blackwell on September 30, 2019

The exhibit, that runs October 10 to November 15, celebrates Jim Wong-Chu, a well-known Asian-Canadian historian, editor, author, and poet.

Posted in Carousel, Events, General | Tagged with collections, community engagement

Xwi7xwa Library developing a collection of music by Indigenous artists

Xwi7xwa Library developing a collection of music by Indigenous artists

By michelle blackwell on September 17, 2019

Known for its extensive and unique collections that focus on Indigenous peoples in British Columbia, the library has been focusing efforts to acquire recordings made by current musicians, recordings of publicly available archival material and traditional materials.

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Portrait of Chinese men and women, Vancouver. Between 1900- 1909. Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection, UBC Library.

UBC Library’s Chung Collection is added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register

By michelle blackwell on September 11, 2019

The Canada Memory of the World Register highlights exceptional works and documents that reflect the wealth and diversity of Canada’s documentary heritage.

Posted in Carousel, General, Press releases | Tagged with Canada memory of the World Register, Chung Collection, collections

UBC Library 2018/19 Senate Report

UBC Library 2018/19 Senate Report

By Anna Moorhouse on July 2, 2019

UBC Library’s annual Senate Report (2018/19) is now available. Read our highlights from the past fiscal year which include advancing research, learning and scholarship, engaging with communities, creating and delivering responsive collections, inspiring with innovative spaces and services, and stewarding the organization.

Posted in General, Publications, Senate Reports | Tagged with collections, community, research learning and scholarship, student spaces, support

UBC Library users now able to access the digital archives of Maclean’s Magazine and the Toronto Star

UBC Library users now able to access the digital archives of Maclean’s Magazine and the Toronto Star

By michelle blackwell on June 27, 2019

Digital archives like these are changing the parameters of what’s possible in research while improving accessibility.

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, digital collections

UBC Library launches a new ‘Mythical Creatures’ themed digital colouring book

UBC Library launches a new ‘Mythical Creatures’ themed digital colouring book

By Katya Roxas on February 4, 2019

Experience history at the tip of your pencil crayons with our new ‘Mythical Creatures’ themed digital colouring book.

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, links, Rare Books and Special Collections

Take a tour of Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC)

Take a tour of Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC)

By Jessica Woolman on January 2, 2019

Take a tour of Rare Books and Special Collections collections every Wednesday at 11 am.

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, community, IKBLC, Rare Books and Special Collections, tours

New partnership brings original documents from the French Revolution to UBC

New partnership brings original documents from the French Revolution to UBC

By michelle blackwell on November 14, 2018

Students, researchers and the wider community can now access original pamphlets from the French Revolution thanks to a partnership between UBC Library and French, Hispanic and Italian Studies.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, links, Rare Books and Special Collections, special collections

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