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UBC Library
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Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 10th Anniversary Exhibitions
Ten years ago, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) celebrated its grand opening on UBC’s Vancouver campus. In celebration of this 10-year milestone, UBC Library is installing two temporary exhibitions.
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.
Music, Art and Architecture Library project puts Canadiana on display
UBC Library’s Canadian Art Exhibition Catalogue collection has a new home in the Ridington Room.
UBC Library digitizes Kelmscott Chaucer and launches digital colouring book series
When UBC Library acquired the Kelmscott Press’ Works of Geoffrey Chaucer in 2016, the book’s preservation story was just beginning.
Food, Friends and Fish: Celebrating the Harry Hawthorn Foundation
With more than 2200 books in its fly-fishing and angling collection, the Harry Hawthorn Foundation at UBC Library has grown considerably from a relatively modest beginning.
Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace win the 2018 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for their exploration of Secwépemc history told through Indigenous knowledge and oral traditions.
The SFU professors win the 2018 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for their book A Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq’ey’s-kucw.
UBC Library 2016/17 Senate Report
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.
Weekly drop-in tours of the Chung Collection
Rare Books and Special Collections is now offering weekly tours of the Chung Collection exhibition every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
UBC student wins Library’s Croquet Collection Prize
UBC fourth-year student Mariah Dear is the second winner of UBC Library’s annual Croquet Collection Prize.
Susan E. Parker appointed as UBC’s University Librarian
UBC Library is please to announce the appointment of Ms. Susan E. Parker as University Librarian effective September 1.