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Citizen archive project receives award
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.
Appreciation for Digitized Bookplates from Digital Initiatives and Rare Books and Special Collections
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.
UBC Library Contributes Search Interface to Federated Research Data Repository
Learn about how Portage and Compute Canada have partnered with UBC Library in adopting our UBC Open Collections user interface.
New Initiatives: Partnering with UBC’s Digital Tattoo Project
The Fall 2016 issue of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information magazine for alumni, Informed, looks at UBC’s Digital Tattoo Project.
Eugene Barsky on Strategic Initiatives in 2016
Research initiatives at UBC Library strive to enhance student learning, engage with communities and partners across the globe and accelerate UBC research.
BIRS and UBC collaborate to create mathematical video archive
Math scholars can now access workshops and lectures from the renowned Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS).
Squeezes, vacuums and gentle machines: secrets of the Digitization Centre revealed
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 […]
From acquisition to digitization: sharing the Library’s special collections
This story appears in UBC Library’s 2013/14 Community Report. Read more to find out how we’re supporting economic, environmental and social sustainability at UBC. When browsing through the Library’s digital collections, it’s hard to imagine the many steps needed to share just one image online with users. Earlier this year, the Library received more […]
Pass it on: Preservation Week 2014 at UBC Library
UBC Library is holding a series of events to highlight what we can do – individually and together – to preserve our personal and shared collections.
Discovering BC history through digitizing community newspapers
Digitization of historical newspapers at the Library has led to unexpected surprises and research discoveries for curious library users. The BC Historical Newspapers portal, online since 2011, allows users to browse through newspapers from various BC communities including Agassiz, Kaslo, Nelson, Fernie, and Nanaimo. Web users can discover a trove of historical information dating […]