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UBC Library Digital Initiatives creates COVID-19 web archives to document pandemic response in British Columbia
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.
Getting to know the inner cIRcle: UBC Library’s digital repository
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.
Download the B.C. Historical Books digital colouring book: calendar edition
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.
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.