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By Jessica Woolman on December 19, 2014
UBC Library’s investment in digitization is a key part in redefining the vision and mandate of the organization and has triggered new opportunities to support teaching, learning and research at UBC and beyond. Many of the digitization projects currently underway in the Library’s Digitization Unit are of special importance to British Columbian history. For example, […]
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By Jessica Woolman on December 4, 2014
The B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) is now accepting submissions for funding.
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By Jessica Woolman on September 18, 2014
The latest recipients of the Aboriginal Audio Digitization and Preservation Program have been announced.
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By Glenn Drexhage on July 10, 2014
Learn about an innovative collaboration between UBC Library’s Digitization Centre and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum.
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By Library Communications on May 5, 2014
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 […]
Posted in General | Tagged with Community Report, digital collections, Digital Initiatives, digitization, Rare Books and Special Collections, Uno Langmann
By Library Communications on May 2, 2014
Researchers around the world have valuable access to Okanagan history, thanks to a digitization project involving UBC Library and the Okanagan Historical Society.
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By Jessica Woolman on April 14, 2014
Congratulations to the latest successful applicants of the Aboriginal Audio Digitization and Preservation Program (AADPP).
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By Glenn Drexhage on February 3, 2014
UBC Library’s Winter Update in the BCLA Browser highlights a CLIR grant for a collaborative cataloguing project; the digitization of British Columbia Sessional Papers; the inaugural recipients of the Aboriginal Audio Digitization and Preservation Program; and more. The BCLA Browser is the online, open access publication of the British Columbia Library Association.
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By Jessica Woolman on January 10, 2014
Croquet fans can rejoice now that the Arkley Croquet Image collection has been made available online. Hundreds of paintings, illustrations, photographs and postcards dating from the 1850’s to the 1950’s are now easily accessible via the Web. More than 1,400 items in the collection have been digitized thus far, with a second phase of […]
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By Linda Ong on January 10, 2014
A 1926 photograph from the Library’s Chung Collection triggered a personal journey for Bryan Chong and his family. Unbeknownst to Chong, his uncle—Wong Siu Boon—was a goalie for a soccer team that went on to defeat the UBC varsity team in 1933. It struck Chong that he knew very little about his uncle and […]
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