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Global library collaboration with Peking University Library

By Library Communications on May 27, 2013

A collaboration between UBC Library and Peking University Library (PKU Library) heralds exchange of staff and expertise.

Posted in General | Tagged with books, collaboration, collections, community engagement, Community Report, Peking University Library, preservation, rare books, strategic plan

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Preservation at UBC Library

By Jessica Woolman on April 22, 2013

April 21 to 27 is Preservation Week. We asked Alvan Bregman to answer a few questions on what preservation means at UBC Library.

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, preservation, Preservation Week

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Preserving physical and digital collections

By Glenn Drexhage on April 4, 2013

UBC Library’s Alvan Bregman brings his expertise to a new preservation program for physical and digital collections.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with Asian Library, collections, Digital Initiatives, Media coverage, preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections

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UNESCO Declaration focuses on digital assets

By Glenn Drexhage on January 23, 2013

  The protection of digital assets is the focus of the UNESCO / UBC Vancouver Declaration on Digitization and Preservation, released by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). The statement emerged from an international conference, held in Vancouver in September 2012 and organized by UNESCO in co-operation with UBC, that focused on the preservation […]

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, Digital Initiatives, digitization, preservation, UNESCO

Digitally preserved knowledge focus of UNESCO conference

Digitally preserved knowledge focus of UNESCO conference

By Andrea Coutts on September 27, 2012

UBC welcomes international digital knowledge experts at UNESCO conference “The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation.”

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with collections, digitization, Media coverage, preservation, UNESCO

UBC hosts world’s experts on safeguarding digital assets

By Jessica Woolman on September 26, 2012

Digital knowledge experts from academia, government, and IT converge in Vancouver for an international conference hosted by UBC on digital preservation.

Posted in Events, General | Tagged with collections, conference, digitization, preservation, SLAIS, UNESCO

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Preserving cultural heritage

By Jessica Woolman on May 15, 2012

An innovative UBC Library project is helping preserve First Nations history and culture for the digital age. The project, dubbed Indigitization, is a collaboration between various UBC units, including the Library’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, the First Nations House of Learning, the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) and the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. […]

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, Community Report, digitization, Indigitization, preservation, strategic plan

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