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By Anna Moorhouse on May 29, 2025
UBC Library is introducing a new pilot program that expands service for knowledge synthesis consultation and collaboration, now available to UBC researchers on both UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.
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By Library Communications on May 1, 2025
Starting May 1, 2025, UBC Library is moving to a hold period of seven days for physical materials on both UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.
Posted in Carousel, General | Tagged with borrower services, service update, spaces and services
By Anna Moorhouse on January 13, 2025
For more than a decade, AskAway has been providing students, faculty, and staff with real-time, virtual access to research and reference support.
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By phoebe chan on August 30, 2024
UBC Library’s annual Senate Report (2023/24) is now available. Read our highlights from the past fiscal year which include advancing research, learning and scholarship, engaging with communities, creating and delivering responsive collections, inspiring with innovative spaces and services, and stewarding the organization.
Posted in General, Publications, Senate Reports | Tagged with collections, community engagement, research learning and scholarship, senate report, spaces, spaces and services, student spaces, support
By Anna Moorhouse on August 22, 2024
Starting August 20, 2024, UBC Library’s Automated Storage Retrieval System (ASRS) in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre resumes full operations.
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By Anna Moorhouse on July 30, 2024
Starting in August 2024, UBC Library is implementing changes to its loan policies and fines structure, which will affect all library users on both Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.
Posted in General | Tagged with service update, services, spaces and services
By Anna Moorhouse on July 18, 2024
There are now more ways to get an Indigenous Community Borrower Card at UBC Library.
Posted in General | Tagged with borrower services, Indigenous, Koerner Library, services, spaces and services, Xwi7xwa Library
By phoebe chan on July 8, 2024
UBC Asian Library has benefited from two substantial renovation projects on both the upper and main floors of the branch. The reimagined space includes extensive improvements to seating and study spaces, much needed repairs, and an overhaul of the book collection stacks and displays.
Posted in General | Tagged with Asian Library, library spaces, renovation, renovations, spaces, spaces and services
By Library Communications on March 11, 2024
Koerner Library will be undergoing space improvements to install new carpet to an area on Level 3 from Thursday, March 14, 2024, through Friday, April 5, 2024.
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By Anna Moorhouse on September 28, 2023
On October 3rd, UBC Library is instituting a logout timer on all library public workstations as an added security measure for library users.
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