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UBC Library featured on North by Northwest with Sheryl McKay

UBC Library featured on North by Northwest with Sheryl McKay

By Jessica Woolman on January 7, 2018

UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured on CBC radio. The interview begins at the 2 hour 50 sec mark.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, BC, collections, history, links, Media coverage, newspapers

Acquisitions: University of British Columbia (UBC) Library Acquires the First Item Ever Printed in Vancouver

Acquisitions: University of British Columbia (UBC) Library Acquires the First Item Ever Printed in Vancouver

By Jessica Woolman on January 6, 2018

UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in the Library Journal’s InfoDocket.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, BC, collections, history, links, Media coverage, newspapers

This is the first thing that was ever printed in Vancouver

This is the first thing that was ever printed in Vancouver

By Jessica Woolman on January 5, 2018

UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in the Daily Hive.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, BC, collections, history, links, Media coverage, newspapers

You can now see the oldest item ever printed in Vancouver

You can now see the oldest item ever printed in Vancouver

By Jessica Woolman on January 5, 2018

UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in Vancouver is Awesome.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, BC, collections, history, links, Media coverage, newspapers

A heralded glimpse of Vancouver, before it was Vancouver

A heralded glimpse of Vancouver, before it was Vancouver

By Jessica Woolman on January 4, 2018

UBC Library’s recent acquisition of The Vancouver Weekly Herald and North Pacific News was featured in the Vancouver Sun.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, BC, collections, history, links, Media coverage, newspapers

New BC prize for scholarly books: shortlist announced

New BC prize for scholarly books: shortlist announced

By Glenn Drexhage on March 5, 2013

Three books that reflect the compelling culture, geography and history of British Columbia are featured in the inaugural shortlist for a new award focused on scholarly works.

Posted in Events, General, Press releases | Tagged with awards, Basil Stuart-Stubbs, community engagement, history, publishing, research learning and scholarship, scholarly communications

Hockey history at UBC Library

Hockey history at UBC Library

By Glenn Drexhage on May 30, 2011

  Hey hockey fans – are you feeling Stanley Cup fever? Then tap into some hockey history courtesy of UBC Library – and impress fellow fans with your knowledge of the Vancouver Canucks and insights into the Canada’s storied sporting pastime. From anecdotes to kids’ lit, biographies to bibliographies, we’ve got something for everyone who’s […]

Posted in General | Tagged with history

Prof. Henry Yu featured in Metro Toronto coverage

By Glenn Drexhage on May 4, 2011

Henry Yu, a Professor of History at UBC, is quoted in a story that appears in Metro Toronto about a chronological chart of Chinese Canadian History. Prof. Yu is also the Project Lead of Chinese Canadian Stories, an initiative of UBC Library and SFU Library that has received funding from the federal government’s Canadian Historical […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with asian history, Chinese Canadian history, history, Media coverage

From the Archives – January 2011

By Glenn Drexhage on February 4, 2011

The latest instalment of “From the Archives,” appearing in UBC’s Grad Gazette and written by Erwin Wodarczak of University Archives, takes an entertaining and informative look at the basketball games that took place in the 1930s and ’40s between the UBC Thunderbirds and the Harlem Globetrotters. You can view the article here, and the January […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with archives, history, Media coverage

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