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UBC Library awarded CANARIE Research Data Management funding
UBC Library has been named as a successful recipient for the Research Data Management (RDM) funding call from CANARIE, a non-profit corporation that supports research, education and innovation in Canada.
Drawing a continent by hand with Anton Thomas
The talk on October 26 is the first in our Visualizing the World: A Maps and Geographic Information Systems Speaker Series.
GIS day at Koerner Library
UBC Library is hosting a first-ever Geographic Information Systems (GIS) day at Koerner Library
Old Streams project featured on Straight.com, Granville Online
The Old Streams project – which involves UBC Library and the Vancouver Aquarium – is featured on the Georgia Straight‘s website and Granville Online. UBC Library has digitized the content of the Aquarium’s paper maps from the 1970s, allowing users to discover Vancouver’s vanished streams and waterways. You can view the articles here and here, […]
UBC Library and Vancouver Aquarium reveal Vancouver’s secret waterways
Media Release | Jul. 19, 2011 Vancouver’s vanished streams and waterways can be discovered once again thanks to a digitization project involving UBC Library and the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre. UBC Library digitized the content of the Aquarium’s paper maps from the 1970s, allowing both scholars and the public to see the paths of […]
A hub for the humanities
The GIS (or Geographic Information Systems) Lab is the first part ofthe Research Commons project, which will serve those working in the humanities and social sciences.
UBC GIS Users Group meeting – November 24
UBC Library is pleased to present its monthly UBC GIS Users Group meetings – a gathering of students, researchers, faculty and staff on campus who work with or are interested in geographical information systems. The meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month in Koerner Library, Room 216 at 4 p.m. The next […]
GIS lab opens at UBC Library
UBC Library is thrilled to announce the opening of its new GIS/Research Data Lab. The facility, which celebrated its grand opening on Wednesday, June 16, houses six workstations that allow users to manipulate data and produce graphic representations of the results in geographic settings (GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems). This means, for example, that […]