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Join Open Education Week for workshops that promote reduced barriers to learning
It all takes place March 2 to 11 at UBC. Open Education allows educators to remove barriers to learning by sharing, managing and using education resources such as open textbooks, lesson plans, quizzes, videos, interactive activities and presentations.
UBC Library now offering syllabus service to help instructors clear copyrighted course materials
The service aims to make copyright compliance as streamlined and easy for UBC faculty as possible.
Welcome Susan Parker, UBC’s new University Librarian
Susan Parker has begun her role as UBC’s 15th University Librarian.
UBC Instructor Mandy Len Catron shares the writing and research process behind her new memoir
Catron shares how she utilized UBC Library and its collections for her new memoir How to Fall in Love with Anyone.
Literacy toolkit for UBC faculty
A UBC faculty toolkit helps address students’ information literacy levels and needs.
GIS Lab: Visualizing research
As a boy, Tom Brittnacher was obsessed by transportation and maps – interests that ended up playing a pivotal role in his career choice. Brittnacher, UBC Library’s first Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Librarian, arrived last year to develop a new service to support research on campus with spatial analysis.In June, an opening reception was held […]
Student/librarian collaboration published in ISIT
The following article – Five voices, two perspectives: integrating student librarians into a science and engineering library – has been published in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, a key open access, peer-reviewed journal on science librarianship. The article is a collaboration between three students from UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (Samantha […]