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By Anna Moorhouse on February 8, 2022
Join Forest(Reads), a virtual book club on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Forestry, the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC Library and the Simon KY Lee Global Lounge and Resource Centre.
Posted in Events | Tagged with book club, climate, community engagement
By Anna Moorhouse on November 1, 2021
Join this week of webinars and workshops exploring the practice of open scholarship, and hear from UBC colleagues who are incorporating “openness” in innovative ways to enhance teaching, research, and public impact.
Posted in Events | Tagged with accessibility, community engagement, links, open access, open data, Open Education
By Anna Moorhouse on October 22, 2021
Xwi7xwa Library has curated several display cases at IKBLC feature books, photographs, archival documents and other unique materials relating to Residential Schools in Canada.
Posted in General | Tagged with community engagement, exhibitions, exhibits, Xwi7xwa Library
By Anna Moorhouse on October 6, 2021
This year, Xwi7xwa Library and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences launched a new type of course activity which takes an integrative approach to pharmaceutical care, community research ethics, and library skills.
Posted in General | Tagged with community engagement, research learning and scholarship, Teaching and Learning Stories, Xwi7xwa Library
By Library Communications on September 20, 2021
Science Literacy Week (September 20-26, 2021) at UBC Library will explore climate change through virtual workshops, activities, and resources like curated book lists, streaming film recommendations, and research guides.
Posted in Events | Tagged with community engagement, Science Literacy Week
By matt patton on August 24, 2021
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’s services, spaces and collections adapted to best serve the UBC campus community in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Posted in General, Publications, Senate Reports | Tagged with collections, community engagement, research learning and scholarship, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, support
By Anna Moorhouse on April 8, 2021
Xwi7xwa Library has launched a new Canvas course for students in NITEP, the Indigenous Teacher Education Program in the Faculty of Education at UBC.
Posted in General | Tagged with community engagement, Teaching and Learning Stories, Xwi7xwa Library
By Anna Moorhouse on October 8, 2020
In a new blog series created by Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC), archivists, librarians and library staff share items from their personal collections of documents, books and ephemera.
Posted in General | Tagged with archivists, community engagement, librarians, library staff, Rare Books and Special Collections
By Anna Moorhouse on August 17, 2020
UBC Library’s annual Senate Report (2019/20) 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, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, support
By michelle blackwell on January 20, 2020
The exhibit runs until February 28 on Level 2 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Posted in General | Tagged with collections, community engagement, exhibitions