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UBC Library digitizes rare collection of World War II-era kamishibai plays
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.
UBC Library 2021/22 Senate Report
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.
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 has been added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register in recognition of its historical value.
UBC Library acquires extensive photography book collection
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.
UBC Library has acquired access to the digital archives of the Vancouver Sun newspaper
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.
UBC Library acquires Afghan primary source databases
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.
I Know We’ll Meet Again: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal of Japanese Canadians
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.
Download the Birds in Nature digital colouring book: calendar edition
Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated birds in nature that doubles as a calendar.
William Shakespeare’s First Folio published in 1623 gifted to UBC Library
UBC has acquired a first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies Histories and Tragedies—an extremely rare book published seven years after Shakespeare’s death and credited with preserving almost half of his plays.
University Archives receives extensive collection of photographs and records from UBC Department of Athletics & Recreation
UBC Archives has received an extensive collection of materials from UBC’s Department of Athletics and Recreation, totalling nearly 8,000 photographs and textual records.