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Download the Where the Fish Flow digital colouring book: calendar edition

Download the Where the Fish Flow digital colouring book: calendar edition

By phoebe chan on February 5, 2024

Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated fish and waterways that doubles as a calendar.

Posted in Events, General | Tagged with BC History, collections, Digital Initiatives, fish, nature, open collections, waterways

UBC Library’s First Folio gets interactive with Shakespeare xR

UBC Library’s First Folio gets interactive with Shakespeare xR

By Anna Moorhouse on December 11, 2023

UBC Library released a digitized version of the Folio on UBC Open Collections, making the rare volume openly accessible. But this 2D digitization was only the first step in a larger plan.

Posted in General | Tagged with Digital Initiatives, UBC First Folio

Download the Animal Kingdom digital colouring book: calendar edition

Download the Animal Kingdom digital colouring book: calendar edition

By phoebe chan on February 6, 2023

Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated animals in nature that doubles as a calendar.

Posted in Events, General | Tagged with BC History, collections, Digital Initiatives, links, open collections

UBC Library digitizes William Shakespeare’s First Folio

UBC Library digitizes William Shakespeare’s First Folio

By Anna Moorhouse on November 21, 2022

UBC Library has made its first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies openly accessible to the public by publishing a digitized version of the volume online through Open Collections.

Posted in General | Tagged with Digital Initiatives, Digitization Centre, open collections, RBSC, UBC First Folio

UBC Library digitizes rare collection of World War II-era kamishibai plays

UBC Library digitizes rare collection of World War II-era kamishibai plays

By Anna Moorhouse on September 14, 2022

UBC Library has digitized an extremely rare collection of World War II-era propaganda plays from Japan, presented in a format known as kamishibai, or paper theatre, plays.

Posted in General | Tagged with Asian Library, collections, digital collections, Digital Initiatives, Digitization Centre, open collections

Download the Birds in Nature digital colouring book: calendar edition

Download the Birds in Nature digital colouring book: calendar edition

By phoebe chan on February 7, 2022

Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons. Our new digital colouring book features illustrated birds in nature that doubles as a calendar.

Posted in Events | Tagged with BC History, birds, birds in nature, children's literature, collections, Digital Initiatives, links, open collections

Download Digital Colouring Books for UBC Thrive Month

Download Digital Colouring Books for UBC Thrive Month

By phoebe chan on November 5, 2021

UBC Thrive month is a time when we come together to explore ways to support our mental health. Colouring is an activity that can help you focus on the present and reduce stress. Try taking a break and check out⁠⁠ our Digital Colouring Books

Posted in General | Tagged with BC History, collections, Digital Initiatives, open collections

UBC Library launches Open Publishing Program to support UBC faculty, staff, and student-led open journals and texts

UBC Library launches Open Publishing Program to support UBC faculty, staff, and student-led open journals and texts

By Anna Moorhouse on October 25, 2021

UBC Library currently hosts 30 active open access journals by providing server space, support, and access to Open Journal Systems (OJS).

Posted in General | Tagged with Digital Initiatives, research learning and scholarship, scholarly communications, UBC Open Publishing Program

Read the UBC Library Digital Initiatives 2020/2021 Impact & Activity Reports online now

Read the UBC Library Digital Initiatives 2020/2021 Impact & Activity Reports online now

By Anna Moorhouse on October 7, 2021

The Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office, the Digitization Centre, and cIRcle have each published their Impact and Activity Reports for the 2020/2021 fiscal year.

Posted in General | Tagged with cIRcle, Digital Initiatives, reports, scholarly communications

UBC Library Digital Initiatives creates COVID-19 web archives to document pandemic response in British Columbia

UBC Library Digital Initiatives creates COVID-19 web archives to document pandemic response in British Columbia

By Anna Moorhouse on July 29, 2021

Over the past year, a team at UBC Library has been creating web archives to preserve materials relating to the COVID-19 pandemic response in British Columbia for future research.

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, digital collections, Digital Initiatives, open data. open access, research learning and scholarship, web archiving

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