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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
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.
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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
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
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)
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
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
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.
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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
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.
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