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Strategic Direction:
Engage with Communities
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, 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, 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, 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, Work with us
By Anna Moorhouse on September 12, 2022
UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) are excited to introduce the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Scholars-in-Residence Program, launching in September 2022.
Posted in General | Tagged with community engagement, EDI Scholars-in-Residence, IKBLC
By Anna Moorhouse on August 11, 2022
As part of Indigenous History Month this past June, Xwi7xwa Library launched a new exhibit, featuring materials from their Indigenous language collection, on display now in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Posted in General | Tagged with community engagement, exhibitions, exhibits, Xwi7xwa Library
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 General, Publications, Senate Reports | Tagged with collections, community engagement, research learning and scholarship, senate report, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, support