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Pass it on: Preservation Week 2014 at UBC Library

By Jessica Woolman on April 14, 2014

UBC Library is holding a series of events to highlight what we can do – individually and together – to preserve our personal and shared collections.

Posted in Events, General | Tagged with collections, Digital Initiatives, preservation, Preservation Week

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Langmann donation reaps media coverage

By Jessica Woolman on March 19, 2014

Collector Uno Langmann’s recent donation of B.C. photographs has garnered media attention.

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, digital collections, Media coverage

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Uno Langmann photo collection offers glimpse into B.C. history

By Jessica Woolman on March 18, 2014

More than 18,000 rare and unique photographs donated to UBC Library.

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with collections, digital collections, donation, Rare Books and Special Collections, support

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Library collaboration to unveil Chinese treasures

By Glenn Drexhage on February 4, 2014

This innovative partnership is supported by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with Asian Library, CLIR, collections, Puban Collection

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Videomatica collection garners media coverage

By Glenn Drexhage on January 28, 2014

The launch of the exceptional Videomatica collection at UBC and SFU libraries garnered print, television and radio coverage.  You can read “UBC, SFU offer a smorgasbord of film options from Videomatica collection” in the Globe and Mail, and “Videomatica film collection now available at UBC and SFU” in the Vancouver Sun. A similar story, “Videomatica’s […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with collections, film, Media coverage, Videomatica

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Iconic Videomatica film collection available at UBC and SFU libraries

By Glenn Drexhage on January 27, 2014

Film fans, rejoice – Videomatica’s legendary film collection is now accessible for borrowing from UBC and SFU libraries.

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with collections, SFU Library, UBC, Videomatica

Croquet collection from UBC Library archives

Arkley Croquet Collection goes online

By Jessica Woolman on January 10, 2014

  Croquet fans can rejoice now that the Arkley Croquet Image collection has been made available online. Hundreds of paintings, illustrations, photographs and postcards dating from the 1850’s to the 1950’s are now easily accessible via the Web. More than 1,400 items in the collection have been digitized thus far, with a second phase of […]

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, croquet, digitization, support

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New resource trials

By Jessica Woolman on November 20, 2013

The Library has a number of new e-resources trials currently underway, with some lasting into the new year.

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, electronic resources

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Taking care of our collections

By Jessica Woolman on October 28, 2013

Library collections pose unique preservation challenges.

Posted in General | Tagged with Archivematica, collections, Digital Initiatives, preservation

Trial video collection from Alexander Street Press

Trial video collection from Alexander Street Press

By Jessica Woolman on October 28, 2013

Multi-disciplinary video collection resource

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, electronic resources

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