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UBC Library Acquires Rare Limited Edition Chaucer Book
The Alliance for Arts and Culture notes that the book was printed in a limited edition of only 438 copies by William Morris’s Kelmscott Press in 1896.
CBC As It Happens – August 23, 2016
Host Carol Off interviews Dr. Gregory Mackie, assistant professor in UBC’s department of English on UBC Library’s newest purchase that’s been called “the most beautiful of all printed books.”
UBC proud owner of $202,000 US rare book from 1896
The Vancouver Sun explores UBC Library’s purchase of the Kelmscott Chaucer.
More than 500 of UBC radio station’s historic audio tapes find new audience online
From the Vancouver Sun
UBC radio archive clips find new audience online
The Library’s Digitization Centre has helped UBC and CiTR archive a collection of radio clips from the 1940s and onwards.
Listen to 65 years of UBC history from CiTR’s newly updated archive
Learn how the BC History Digitization Program, the UBC Library Digitization Centre, the UBC University Archives have contributed to this project in this Ubyssey article.
Of horses and grasshoppers
BC BookLook covers John Thistle’s win of the 4th annual Basil Stuart-Stubbs Award for Outstanding Scholarly Book on B.C., presented at UBC Library on June 9, 2016.
Vancouver Sun – Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents Harry Potter
VSO President Kelly Tweeddale speaks about VSO’s partnership with UBC Library.
CBC Radio, The Early Edition
Conductor Justin Freer on the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
