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Digital Initiatives

Getting to know the inner cIRcle: UBC Library’s digital repository

Getting to know the inner cIRcle: UBC Library’s digital repository

By Anna Moorhouse on February 10, 2021

While cIRcle is a technology-driven unit within UBC Library, the work is undoubtedly people-focused as the human services provided by the team are key to its success.

Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with cIRcle, Digital Initiatives, spaces and services

Download the B.C. Historical Books digital colouring book: calendar edition

Download the B.C. Historical Books digital colouring book: calendar edition

By phoebe chan on February 2, 2021

Experience history and #BeautifulBC at the tip of your pencil crayons with our new digital colouring book that doubles as a calendar. Celebrate #ColorOurCollections week with UBC Library’s ‘B.C. Historical Books’ themed digital colouring book.

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

Read the UBC Library Digital Initiatives 2019/2020 Impact & Activity Reports online now

Read the UBC Library Digital Initiatives 2019/2020 Impact & Activity Reports online now

By Anna Moorhouse on November 19, 2020

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.

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UBC Library helps faculty and instructors publish open textbooks for their courses

UBC Library helps faculty and instructors publish open textbooks for their courses

By Anna Moorhouse on October 21, 2020

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.

Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with Digital Initiatives, Open Access Week, spaces and services

Download UBC Library’s ‘Maps and Landscapes’ digital colouring book series

Download UBC Library’s ‘Maps and Landscapes’ digital colouring book series

By Katya Roxas on February 3, 2020

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.

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, Digital Initiatives, links, open collections, Rare Books and Special Collections

Download the new ‘Maps and Landscapes’ digital colouring book series

Download the new ‘Maps and Landscapes’ digital colouring book series

By Katya Roxas on October 22, 2019

Experience history at the tip of your pencil crayons with our new ‘Maps and Landscapes’ themed digital colouring book series.

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, Digital Initiatives, links, open collections, Rare Books and Special Collections

More than 100 years of BC’s provincial governmental papers now accessible online

More than 100 years of BC’s provincial governmental papers now accessible online

By michelle blackwell on August 1, 2019

One hundred and six years of British Columbia’s governmental papers are now available to anyone with a wifi connection and a device.

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

UBC Library digitizes Kelmscott Chaucer and launches digital colouring book series

UBC Library digitizes Kelmscott Chaucer and launches digital colouring book series

By Anna Moorhouse on May 17, 2018

When UBC Library acquired the Kelmscott Press’ Works of Geoffrey Chaucer in 2016, the book’s preservation story was just beginning.

Posted in General | Tagged with digital collections, Digital Initiatives, digitization, Kelmscott Chaucer, Kelmscott Press, Rare Books and Special Collections, support

UBC Library to support faculty in creating open textbooks and open educational resources through 1-year grant project

UBC Library to support faculty in creating open textbooks and open educational resources through 1-year grant project

By michelle blackwell on February 21, 2018

UBC Vancouver faculty are encouraged to apply for the sub-grant program by April 12, 2018.

Posted in General | Tagged with Digital Initiatives, Open Education, research learning and scholarship, Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF)

UBC Library’s B.C Historical Newspaper archive plays critical role in helping to preserve heritage buildings in Vancouver.

UBC Library’s B.C Historical Newspaper archive plays critical role in helping to preserve heritage buildings in Vancouver.

By michelle blackwell on September 7, 2017

The Library’s digital newspaper archive is key in Heritage Vancouver’s built heritage research.

Posted in General | Tagged with BC Digital Newspapers Archive, BC History, digital archives, Digital Initiatives, Heritage Vancouver, newspapers, open collections, Vancouver

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