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Preserving information in the digital age
Bronwen Sprout, Head, Digital Programs and Services and Mimi Lam, Librarian, Digital Projects share some of the greatest challenges of digital preservation and how UBC Library is tackling these challenges in strategic ways.
UBC Library’s Harry Potter collection and magical creatures books at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
UBC Library organized a second exhibit of our Harry Potter collection in tandem with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsTM performance, which took place April 7–9.
A gift from the past: UBC’s class of 1932 funds access to 343 ebooks 85 years after graduation
An endowment established by UBC’s class of 1932 is funding the Library’s annual contribution to Knowledge Unlatched, an Open Access scholarly ebook platform.
UBC Library’s Harry Potter collection on display at Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
In tandem with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s screening and performance of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Rare Books and Special Collections is exhibiting some of the unique and remarkable Harry Potter books in its collection.
Double Exposure: An Exhibit of Missionary Photographs of Meiji-Taisho Japan
The Cooper Robinson collection consisting of over 4,600 photographic prints, negatives, glass lantern slides, and postcards is one of the most valuable photographic records of this era.
X̱wi7x̱wa Library collections moves
Xwi7xwa Library is moving lower used materials to two different locations on campus.
From Apple Pies to Astronauts
Visit Rare Books and Special Collections’ new student-curated English language alphabet book exhibit, featuring books from the late 18th century to the present day.
Rare Books and Special Collections: An English Student’s Heaven
This is somewhat of an English student’s heaven, but worth the visit for anyone with an appreciation for literature and history.
Appreciation for Digitized Bookplates from Digital Initiatives and Rare Books and Special Collections
Recently, the University of British Columbia (UBC) Library added bookplates from its Rare Books and Special Collections to their ongoing Flickr Commons album. These examples are part of the Thomas Murray Collection. The Canadian book collector Murray’s focus bent towards his home country — its artists and its book owners — and UBC lists, where possible, biographical details of both parties.
100 years of Prince George Citizen now in digital form at library
A century’s worth of the Prince George Citizen was digitized thanks to support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.