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By Glenn Drexhage on November 6, 2013
Attend UBC’s Remembrance Day ceremony, and explore a wide range of Remembrance Day resources at UBC Library.
Posted in General | Tagged with Chung Collection, cIRcle, Digital Initiatives, Education Library, Japanese Canadian history, Rare Books and Special Collections, Xwi7xwa Library
By Jessica Woolman on October 28, 2013
Library collections pose unique preservation challenges.
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By Jessica Woolman on October 24, 2013
268 issues of Kinesis are now available in UBC Library’s Digital Collections.
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By Jessica Woolman on July 31, 2013
UBC Library project makes publications accessible to everyone.
Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with digital collections, Digital Initiatives, digital libraries, Okanagan, UBC Okanagan
By Jessica Woolman on July 15, 2013
The Okanagan Historical Society’s annual reports have recently been digitized by UBC Library.
Posted in General | Tagged with BC History, digital collections, Digital Initiatives, research learning and scholarship, UBC Okanagan
By Glenn Drexhage on April 4, 2013
UBC Library’s Alvan Bregman brings his expertise to a new preservation program for physical and digital collections.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with Asian Library, collections, Digital Initiatives, Media coverage, preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
By Glenn Drexhage on January 23, 2013
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 […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on June 18, 2012
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 […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on April 19, 2012
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, […]
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By Glenn Drexhage on November 17, 2011
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 […]
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