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Remembrance Day resources at UBC Library
Attend UBC’s Remembrance Day ceremony, and explore a wide range of Remembrance Day resources at UBC Library.
Taking care of our collections
Library collections pose unique preservation challenges.
Feminist newspaper digitized by UBC Library
268 issues of Kinesis are now available in UBC Library’s Digital Collections.
History of the Okanagan comes alive in digital stories for BC Day
UBC Library project makes publications accessible to everyone.
History of the Okanagan comes alive
The Okanagan Historical Society’s annual reports have recently been digitized by UBC Library.
Preserving physical and digital collections
UBC Library’s Alvan Bregman brings his expertise to a new preservation program for physical and digital collections.
UNESCO Declaration focuses on digital assets
The protection of digital assets is the focus of the UNESCO / UBC Vancouver Declaration on Digitization and Preservation, released by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). The statement emerged from an international conference, held in Vancouver in September 2012 and organized by UNESCO in co-operation with UBC, that focused on the preservation […]
Sharing UBC Library’s gems
The Digital Initiatives (DI) Unit is a key part of UBC Library’s effort to adapt to the evolving needs of faculty and students, and to support teaching, research and learning at UBC. Its goal is to create sustainable, world-class programs and processes to make the collections and research at UBC available to the world. The Digital […]
UBC theses go digital
Users looking to delve into UBC graduate student research can now access thousands of theses from years past, thanks to the completion of UBC Library’s Retrospective Theses Digitization project. As a result, online access is available to virtually all UBC theses created between 1919 and 2007. There are more than 32,000 such theses in cIRcle, […]
Historical newspapers project – media coverage
UBC Library’s British Columbia Historical Newspapers Project, which features digitized versions of 24 newspapers from around the province, has received some great media coverage. Articles have appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Nelson Star, Metro Vancouver (see page 28), the Cranbrook Daily Townsman and Moncton’s Times & Transcript. A mention of the project is […]