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New online exhibit features select letters from the Joan Gillis fonds

New online exhibit features select letters from the Joan Gillis fonds

By Anna Moorhouse on March 3, 2022

This digital exhibition on Japanese Canadian forced dispersal and internment features materials from the Joan Gillis fonds, housed at the UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections.

Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with Asian Library, exhibits, Japanese Canadian history, RBSC

Chung Collection exhibition room closed for maintenance and renovations

Chung Collection exhibition room closed for maintenance and renovations

By Anna Moorhouse on February 2, 2022

The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection exhibition room in Rare Books and Special Collections at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is temporarily closed until further notice for ongoing maintenance and renovations.

Posted in General | Tagged with Chung Collection, RBSC, service update

William Shakespeare’s First Folio published in 1623 gifted to UBC Library

William Shakespeare’s First Folio published in 1623 gifted to UBC Library

By Library Communications on January 12, 2022

UBC has acquired a first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies Histories and Tragedies—an extremely rare book published seven years after Shakespeare’s death and credited with preserving almost half of his plays.

Posted in Press releases | Tagged with collections, RBSC, UBC First Folio

Meet Katherine Kalsbeek, Head, Rare Books & Special Collections at UBC Library

Meet Katherine Kalsbeek, Head, Rare Books & Special Collections at UBC Library

By matt patton on April 29, 2021

Katherine Kalsbeek shares what it’s like to acquire, manage and preserve rare books and special collections at UBC Library.

Posted in General, profile | Tagged with profile, Rare Books and Special Collections, RBSC, Work with us

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