When UBC Library acquired the Kelmscott Press’ Works of Geoffrey Chaucer in 2016, the book’s preservation story was just beginning.
UBC Vancouver faculty are encouraged to apply for the sub-grant program by April 12, 2018.
The Library’s digital newspaper archive is key in Heritage Vancouver’s built heritage research.
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.
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.
Learn about how Portage and Compute Canada have partnered with UBC Library in adopting our UBC Open Collections user interface.
The Fall 2016 issue of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information magazine for alumni, Informed, looks at UBC’s Digital Tattoo Project.
Research initiatives at UBC Library strive to enhance student learning, engage with communities and partners across the globe and accelerate UBC research.
Math scholars can now access workshops and lectures from the renowned Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS).
About 40 Library staff were treated to behind-the-scenes tours of the Digitization Centre last week, where they learned about fascinating projects such as epigraphic squeezes and watched specialized photographic equipment in action. Robert Stibravy began the tours with an introduction to the Centre, pointing out a myriad of images from different projects covering the walls […]