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Giving Day 2022
On UBC Giving Day, April 6, we come together to support students and our world. This year’s Giving Day project involves the digitization of UBC’s 1623 Shakespeare First Folio, which will provide opportunities for UBC iSchool students to hone their skills in the digitization of rare books by working in the UBC Library Digitization Centre to make the First Folio accessible to anyone, anywhere, and at any time.
More than 100 years of BC’s provincial governmental papers now accessible online
One hundred and six years of British Columbia’s governmental papers are now available to anyone with a wifi connection and a device.
UBC Library digitizes Kelmscott Chaucer and launches digital colouring book series
When UBC Library acquired the Kelmscott Press’ Works of Geoffrey Chaucer in 2016, the book’s preservation story was just beginning.
Aboriginal UnHistory Month exhibit at UBC Library
The exhibit looks at the topic of Canada’s 150 in relation to Indigenous peoples, and is open until August 30.
100 years of Prince George Citizen now in digital form at library
A century’s worth of the Prince George Citizen was digitized thanks to support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Five cohorts of Indigitization project participants unite for inaugural Indigitization Futures Forum at UBC
The Indigitization project brought past program participants together in June 2016 to discuss digitization practices and Indigenous knowledge in communities. The article appears in Issue 4 of BCLA Perspectives.
BC History Digitization Program accepting submissions for funding until December 19, 2016.
The B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) is now accepting submissions for funding.
Bronwen Sprout Winner of 2016 COPPUL Outstanding Contribution Award
The Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) is pleased to recognize Bronwen Sprout of the University of British Columbia Library with its 2016 Outstanding Contribution Award.
New digital acquisition: CITR audiotapes spanning 70 years
These audio recordings are a cultural record of student life and voices from the UBC community spanning 70 years.