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By phoebe chan on October 30, 2025
This year marks the 100th anniversary UBC’s Point Grey Campus, including the Old Auditorium, which opened on October 14-15, 1925. To celebrate this milestone, the Music, Art & Architecture (MAA) Library in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre opened an exhibit highlighting the history of the Old Auditorium through archival materials.
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By Anna Moorhouse on September 23, 2025
The celebration brought together faculty, students, alumni and community leaders who have played a role in shaping UBC’s journey.
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By Library Communications on September 8, 2025
Come visit a new pop-up exhibition on display at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre from September 8 to December 5, 2025.
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By Library Communications on January 30, 2025
Dive deeper into this exhibit, on display at UBC Asian Library, that explores the polyvocality of Chinese Canadian and Korean Canadian communities in British Columbia.
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By phoebe chan on November 21, 2022
Visit our interactive Punk & Performance Exhibit to discover unique music, LP art materials and UBC Library’s 140,000 plus LP holdings. The exhibit is live now until December at IKBLC.
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By Anna Moorhouse on August 11, 2022
As part of Indigenous History Month this past June, Xwi7xwa Library launched a new exhibit, featuring materials from their Indigenous language collection, on display now in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
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By Anna Moorhouse on March 3, 2022
This digital exhibition on Japanese Canadian forced dispersal and internment features materials from the Joan Gillis fonds, housed at the UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections.
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By Anna Moorhouse on October 22, 2021
Xwi7xwa Library has curated several display cases at IKBLC feature books, photographs, archival documents and other unique materials relating to Residential Schools in Canada.
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By Anna Moorhouse on February 9, 2021
The Asian Library at the University of British Columbia is celebrating its 60th anniversary with an online exhibit that explores the history and development of the branch.
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By Anna Moorhouse on August 22, 2018
Ten years ago, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) celebrated its grand opening on UBC’s Vancouver campus. In celebration of this 10-year milestone, UBC Library is installing two temporary exhibitions.
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