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UBC Library
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Susan E. Parker Named University Librarian at University of British Columbia
The appointment of Susan Parker as the new University Librarian was recently covered by the Association of Research Libraries News.
Arthur Ray wins the 2017 Canada Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences
Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize-winner Arthur Ray has won the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences 2017 Canada Prize.
Slain Vancouver transit officer remembered 102 years later
A Transit Police officer researching the history of special constables in B.C. stumbled upon the on-duty death of a “forgotten” officer in 1915.
Double Exposure: An Exhibit of Missionary Photographs of Meiji-Taisho Japan
The Cooper Robinson collection consisting of over 4,600 photographic prints, negatives, glass lantern slides, and postcards is one of the most valuable photographic records of this era.
For the love of the library
“We live in an electronic world, but there is nothing like the hands-on experience of interacting with materials from the 13th and 15th century.”