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Download the Animal Kingdom digital colouring book: calendar edition

Download the Animal Kingdom digital colouring book: calendar edition

By phoebe chan on February 6, 2023

Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated animals in nature that doubles as a calendar.

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Music, Art and Architecture Library exhibition that explores activism in classical music extended until February

Music, Art and Architecture Library exhibition that explores activism in classical music extended until February

By Anna Moorhouse on January 30, 2023

An exhibition on display now at UBC Library’s Music, Art and Architecture (MAA) Library will soon be making a move to the University of Toronto Libraries.

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University Archives receives Volkoff Family archives

University Archives receives Volkoff Family archives

By Anna Moorhouse on January 9, 2023

UBC Archives has received the collected archives of prominent theoretical physicist Dr. George Volkoff and microbiology researcher Olga Volkoff.

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UBC Library digitizes rare collection of World War II-era kamishibai plays

UBC Library digitizes rare collection of World War II-era kamishibai plays

By Anna Moorhouse on September 14, 2022

UBC Library has digitized an extremely rare collection of World War II-era propaganda plays from Japan, presented in a format known as kamishibai, or paper theatre, plays.

Posted in General | Tagged with Asian Library, collections, digital collections, Digitization Centre, open collections

UBC Library 2021/22 Senate Report

UBC Library 2021/22 Senate Report

By phoebe chan on August 9, 2022

UBC Library’s annual Senate Report is now available. Read about our highlights from the past fiscal year, which include advancing research, learning and scholarship, engaging with communities, inspiring with innovative spaces and services and stewarding the organization. Learn how the library transitioned back to fully in-person operations on campus in September 2021, kicking off a year of hybrid teaching, learning and work.

Posted in Carousel, General, Publications, Senate Reports | Tagged with collections, community engagement, research learning and scholarship, senate report, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, support

UBC Library’s Joan Gillis Fonds is added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register

UBC Library’s Joan Gillis Fonds is added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register

By Library Communications on July 26, 2022

UBC Library’s Joan Gillis Fonds has been added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register in recognition of its historical value.

Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with acquisitions, Asian Library, collections, Japanese Canadian history, Joan Gillis Fonds, press release, Rare Books and Special Collections, UNESCO

UBC Library acquires extensive photography book collection

UBC Library acquires extensive photography book collection

By Anna Moorhouse on July 20, 2022

UBC Library is excited to announce that the Music, Art and Architecture (MAA) Library in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre has acquired the Harry and Ann Malcolmson Photography Book Collection.

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UBC Library has acquired access to the digital archives of the Vancouver Sun newspaper

UBC Library has acquired access to the digital archives of the Vancouver Sun newspaper

By Anna Moorhouse on April 19, 2022

UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the digital archives of The Vancouver Sun newspaper from 1912 to 2010. Library users will have access to not only the articles, but to the entire published page in these fully searchable archives.

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UBC Library acquires Afghan primary source databases

UBC Library acquires Afghan primary source databases

By Anna Moorhouse on April 12, 2022

UBC faculty, staff and students can now access the Afghan Serials Collection (DA-ASC) Partisan Publications from the Wahdat Library as well as the Afghan Central Press digital archive, addressing in part the needs of student and faculty conducting research in Afghan Studies.

Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with Asian Library, collections, digital archives, digital collections

I Know We’ll Meet Again: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal of Japanese Canadians

I Know We’ll Meet Again: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal of Japanese Canadians

By Library Communications on February 14, 2022

Join this online public panel event inspired by the Joan Gillis fonds, a remarkable collection of letters that recount the lives of a group of Japanese Canadian teenagers after their forced dispersal from the coastal regions of British Columbia in 1942.

Posted in Events | Tagged with acquisitions, collections, Japanese Canadian history, Joan Gillis Fonds, press release, Rare Books and Special Collections

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