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Unique gift brings music making to UBC Library

Unique gift brings music making to UBC Library

By Jessica Woolman on May 22, 2015

Users will soon enjoy the ability to try out an electronic piano in the Music, Art and Architecture Library

Posted in General | Tagged with agility, donation, music, steward the organization, support

Uno Langmann photo collection offers glimpse into B.C. history

Uno Langmann photo collection offers glimpse into B.C. history

By Jessica Woolman on March 18, 2014

More than 18,000 rare and unique photographs donated to UBC Library.

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with collections, digital collections, donation, Rare Books and Special Collections, support

Parents campaign supports sophisticated study spaces

Parents campaign supports sophisticated study spaces

By Jessica Woolman on June 4, 2013

For students today, UBC Library is more than a quiet place to study.

Posted in General | Tagged with donation, spaces, spaces and services, start an evolution, student spaces

Campus-wide campaign for Library benefits students, researchers and community

Campus-wide campaign for Library benefits students, researchers and community

By Library Communications on May 27, 2013

As part of UBC’s start an evolution capital campaign, the Library has raised more than $17 million since 2010

Posted in General | Tagged with Community Report, donation, research learning and scholarship, start an evolution, strategic plan

Halleran Collection programs ready for viewing

Halleran Collection programs ready for viewing

By Glenn Drexhage on February 12, 2013

  A fascinating collection of programs that focuses on a range of environmental issues can now be viewed by users around the world.   UBC Library recently digitized the Westland series television programs that form part of Halleran Collection, one of the largest private family film collections in Canada. It is is being housed and preserved by the Library […]

Posted in Press releases | Tagged with Columbia Basin Trust, digital collections, donation, film, Halleran Collection

Douglas Coupland speaks to UBC graduates after accepting his honorary degree in 2010. Photo: Martin Dee.

Never Left Art School: A Douglas Coupland profile

By Glenn Drexhage on December 12, 2012

A profile of Douglas Coupland, the prolific writer and artist, appears in Montecristo magazine. In 2010, Coupland donated his extensive archives to UBC Library, and accruals have been added since then. Today, the University of British Columbia Library has accumulated over 200 boxes of Coupland’s personal effects: notepads, early drafts and manuscripts, prototypes and moquettes of […]

Posted in Media coverage | Tagged with donation, Douglas Coupland, Rare Books and Special Collections

Art donation featured in Kelowna Capital News

By Glenn Drexhage on March 27, 2012

The donation of six screenprints to UBC’s Okanagan campus is featured in the Kelowna Capital News. The prints – donated by Briar Craig, an Associate Professor of Visual Arts – are on display in the Field Reading Room, which is based in UBC’s Okanagan Library.    

Posted in Media coverage | Tagged with donation, UBC Okanagan

Photo credit: Sally Hunter

UBC, SFU welcome exceptional Videomatica film collection

By Glenn Drexhage on January 16, 2012

Photo credit: Sally Hunter

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with donation, Videomatica

Wallace Chung collections featured in Vancouver Sun

By Glenn Drexhage on January 20, 2011

An article about an exhibition of Wallace Chung’s collection at the Maritime Museum appears in the Vancouver Sun. You can view the piece, which includes information on the Chung Collection at UBC Library, here. And you can find out more about the Chung Collection at UBC here.

Posted in Media coverage | Tagged with Chinese Canadian history, Chung Collection, donation, exhibits, support

UBC Okanagan Library donation in Kelowna Capital News

By Glenn Drexhage on December 10, 2010

A donation to UBC Okanagan Library by Interior Savings is featured in the Kelowna Capital News. You can view the article here.

Posted in Media coverage | Tagged with donation, Okanagan, support, UBC Okanagan, UBC Okanagan Library

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