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Michelle BlackwellDirector, Communications & Marketing
UBC Library
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Anna Moorhouse
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UBC Library
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UBC Library 2021/22 Senate Report
UBC Library’s annual Senate Report is now available. Read about our highlights from the past fiscal year, which include advancing research, learning and scholarship, engaging with communities, inspiring with innovative spaces and services and stewarding the organization. Learn how the library transitioned back to fully in-person operations on campus in September 2021, kicking off a year of hybrid teaching, learning and work.
UBC Library 2020/21 Senate Report
UBC Library’s annual Senate Report is now available. Read about our highlights from the past fiscal year, which include advancing research, learning and scholarship, engaging with communities, inspiring with innovative spaces and services and stewarding the organization. Learn how the library’s services, spaces and collections adapted to best serve the UBC campus community in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
How UBC Library has provided safe study spaces on campus
As one of the only study spaces currently open at UBC, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) has been a popular campus destination for currently-registered students, faculty and staff with a valid UBC card.
UBC Library 2019/20 Senate Report
UBC Library’s annual Senate Report (2019/20) 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.
Walk station added to active workstation at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
The new treadmill desk is a pilot project created in collaboration with UBC Recreation.
UBC students share how the Library helps with their academic success
Without the Library is a student profile series, that welcomes the unique stories of UBC students and showcases how the Library helps shape their academic success and campus experience.
Gift to UBC Library to Transform Lillooet Room
The Lillooet Room, part of the Chapman Learning Commons in Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, has been renamed the Antonio and Marissa Peña Learning and Events Room.
UBC Library 2018/19 Senate Report
UBC Library’s annual Senate Report (2018/19) 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.
UBC Library 2017/18 Senate Report
UBC Library’s annual Senate Report (2017/18) is now available. Read our highlights from the past fiscal year which include growing our collections, improving student spaces, connecting research to the community and engaging with our community partners.
Active Workstation launches at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Students who study at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre now have a new way to hit the books thanks to the installation of an active workstation.