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Rare Books and Special Collections

Chapbooks on display at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections

By Glenn Drexhage on August 6, 2008

Fans of ephemeral literature are invited to visit a campus display of 19th-century English chapbooks at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC). Chapbooks are booklets that were popular in rural areas and towns from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and ranged from jestbooks to histories of depraved criminals, medieval romances to song […]

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Golf Donation to UBC Library profiled in the media

By Glenn Drexhage on January 17, 2008

The recent valuable and generous donation of golf books from Sam Martz to UBC Library has been featured in several newspapers.   The Globe and Mail, Sept. 5, 2007 “Fifty years in the making, collection of golf books ‘is the big leagues’.” Read more online. The National Post, Sept. 5, 2007 “The 81-year-old retired businessman […]

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The Dolman Collection at UBC Library

By Glenn Drexhage on September 14, 2007

UBC Library’s Dolman Collection is profiled in this article from UBC Medicine magazine.  “In his corner in the Rare Books and Special Collections room of the new Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on the Point Grey campus, Ralph Stanton scrolls through a list of books on a computer monitor. Names both famous—Florence Nightingale and Louis […]

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