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One of Canada’s most esteemed conservation scientists, Mary-Lou Florian, makes her most recent book available through UBC’s Open Collections

One of Canada’s most esteemed conservation scientists, Mary-Lou Florian, makes her most recent book available through UBC’s Open Collections

By michelle blackwell on October 24, 2016

Mary-Lou Florian, one of Canada’s most esteemed conservation scientists, has made her new book, Comparative Anatomy of Branches, Roots and Wood of Some North American Dicotyledonous and Coniferous Trees and Woody Shrubs Used in Ethnographic Artifacts: Identification and Conservation Concerns available through UBC’s cIRcle Digital Repository.

Posted in General, Press releases | Tagged with accessibility, alumni, cIRcle, community engagement, open access, Open Access Week, open collections, press release

Join us for Open Access Week!

Join us for Open Access Week!

By michelle blackwell on October 24, 2016

Open Access Week at UBC is happening October 24-30, 2016. RSVP for events and learn more about what Open Access means for researchers, students and faculty.

Posted in Events, General | Tagged with accessibility, community engagement, open access, Open Access Week, open collections, Open Education, scholarly communications

UBC Library’s Open Collections front-end code selected as the basis for the National Federated Research Data Repository discovery platform

UBC Library’s Open Collections front-end code selected as the basis for the National Federated Research Data Repository discovery platform

By michelle blackwell on October 24, 2016

UBC Library’s Open Collections code selected as the basis for the National Federated Research Data Repository discovery platform.

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Open educational resources may help students with textbook costs

Open educational resources may help students with textbook costs

By Clare Yow on October 18, 2016

Librarian Erin Fields tells the Ubyssey about how professors are leveraging technologies to help make learning more flexible (October 15, 2016).

Posted in General | Tagged with accessibility, community engagement, links, Media coverage, open access, open collections, Open UBC

UBC radio archive clips find new audience online

By Clare Yow on August 11, 2016

The Library’s Digitization Centre has helped UBC and CiTR archive a collection of radio clips from the 1940s and onwards.

Posted in General | Tagged with archives, BCHDP, collections, digital collections, digitization, links, Media coverage, open collections, UBC, University Archives

Listen to 65 years of UBC history from CiTR’s newly updated archive

By Clare Yow on August 11, 2016

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.

Posted in General | Tagged with archives, BCHDP, collections, digital collections, digitization, links, Media coverage, open collections, UBC, University Archives

NANITCH Exhibit of Uno Langmann Collection a great success

NANITCH Exhibit of Uno Langmann Collection a great success

By Jasmine Devonshire on June 29, 2016

After three months at Presentation House Gallery, selected photographs from the Library’s Uno Langmann Family Collection of BC Photographs are returning to UBC.

Posted in Events | Tagged with exhibitions, open collections, Rare Books and Special Collections

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