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Read the UBC Library Digital Initiatives 2019/2020 Impact & Activity Reports online now
The Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office, the Digitization Centre, and cIRcle have each published their Impact and Activity Reports for the 2019/2020 fiscal year. Each report showcases some of the year’s highlights and accomplishments within Digital Initiatives.
UBC Library helps faculty and instructors publish open textbooks for their courses
Creating an open textbook is no simple task, but for some faculty and instructors, it’s the best solution when the resources they need for their courses don’t exist.
Download UBC Library’s ‘Maps and Landscapes’ digital colouring book series
Experience history at the tip of your pencil crayons and celebrate #ColorOurCollections week with UBC Library’s ‘Maps and Landscapes’ themed digital colouring book series.
Download the new ‘Maps and Landscapes’ digital colouring book series
Experience history at the tip of your pencil crayons with our new ‘Maps and Landscapes’ themed digital colouring book series.
More than 100 years of BC’s provincial governmental papers now accessible online
One hundred and six years of British Columbia’s governmental papers are now available to anyone with a wifi connection and a device.
UBC Library digitizes Kelmscott Chaucer and launches digital colouring book series
When UBC Library acquired the Kelmscott Press’ Works of Geoffrey Chaucer in 2016, the book’s preservation story was just beginning.
UBC Library to support faculty in creating open textbooks and open educational resources through 1-year grant project
UBC Vancouver faculty are encouraged to apply for the sub-grant program by April 12, 2018.
UBC Library’s B.C Historical Newspaper archive plays critical role in helping to preserve heritage buildings in Vancouver.
The Library’s digital newspaper archive is key in Heritage Vancouver’s built heritage research.
Citizen archive project receives award
The Prince George Newspapers Digitization Project was honoured with the Jeanne Clarke local history award for service at the Bob Harkins branch of the Prince George Public Library.
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.