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Digital Initiatives

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

Citizen archive project receives award

By michelle blackwell on March 9, 2017

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.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with awards, community engagement, Digital Initiatives, links, Media coverage

Appreciation for Digitized Bookplates from Digital Initiatives and Rare Books and Special Collections

By Jasmine Devonshire on January 6, 2017

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.

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, Digital Initiatives, links, Media coverage, rare books, Rare Books and Special Collections

UBC Library Contributes Search Interface to Federated Research Data Repository

UBC Library Contributes Search Interface to Federated Research Data Repository

By Clare Yow on October 27, 2016

Learn about how Portage and Compute Canada have partnered with UBC Library in adopting our UBC Open Collections user interface.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with accessibility, community engagement, digital collections, Digital Initiatives, digital libraries, links, Media coverage, open access, open collections, research learning and scholarship, scholarly communications

New Initiatives: Partnering with UBC’s Digital Tattoo Project

By Clare Yow on October 26, 2016

The Fall 2016 issue of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information magazine for alumni, Informed, looks at UBC’s Digital Tattoo Project.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with Digital Initiatives, Digital Tattoo, links, Media coverage

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