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Strategic Direction:
Engage with Communities
By reiza gabriel on December 5, 2023
On February 14 and 28, join a guided meditation walk at UBC’s octagonal labyrinth, hosted by UBC Library and made possible by the UTown@UBC Community Grant.
Posted in Carousel, Events | Tagged with community engagement, IKBLC, Meditation Walk
By matt patton on August 15, 2023
UBC Library’s annual Senate Report (2022/23) 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 engagement, research learning and scholarship, senate report, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, support
By Anna Moorhouse on June 1, 2023
UBC Library’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is proud to reflect on 10 years as a funding partner for the Networks of Inquiry and Indigenous Education (NOIIE) and the critical role this organization fulfills at participating schools and school districts across British Columbia.
Posted in General | Tagged with community engagement, IKBLC, indigenous
By Anna Moorhouse on March 27, 2023
We sat down with Bri Watson, UBC Library EDI Scholar-in-Residence, to talk about about their work: the challenges, the highlights, and what’s up next.
Posted in General | Tagged with community engagement, EDI Scholars-in-Residence, EDI Scholars-in-Residence Q&As, IKBLC
By Anna Moorhouse on March 13, 2023
We sat down with C.E. Gatchalian, UBC Library EDI Scholar-in-Residence, to talk about about their work: the challenges, the highlights, and what’s up next.
Posted in General | Tagged with community engagement, EDI Scholars-in-Residence, EDI Scholars-in-Residence Q&As, IKBLC
By Anna Moorhouse on February 16, 2023
We sat down with Nneka Allen, UBC Library EDI Scholar-in-Residence, to talk about about her work: the challenges, the highlights, and what’s up next.
Posted in General | Tagged with community engagement, EDI Scholars-in-Residence, EDI Scholars-in-Residence Q&As, IKBLC
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.
Posted in General | Tagged with collections, community engagement, exhibitions, Music Art and Architecture Library
By Anna Moorhouse on January 16, 2023
UBC librarians are embarking on a new collaborative research project that aims to address a fundamental problem in how open educational practices approach Indigenous Knowledges, and instead replicate colonial concepts of ownership and knowledge transfer.
Posted in General | Tagged with community engagement, Open Education, scholarly communications, Xwi7xwa Library
By Library Communications on December 13, 2022
Join us at the Museum of Vancouver on January 6 for an illuminating discussion panel on World War II Japanese Canadian Internment.
Posted in Events | Tagged with Asian Library, community engagement, IKBLC, Japanese Canadian history
By matt patton on December 5, 2022
Kristen Wong, Program Services Assistant, shares her experience working with UBC Library’s Community Engagement team, supporting a wide variety of services that help connect UBC Library resources to surrounding communities and beyond.
Posted in General | Tagged with community engagement, IKBLC, profile, Work with us