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UBC Library’s First Folio gets interactive with Shakespeare xR
UBC Library released a digitized version of the Folio on UBC Open Collections, making the rare volume openly accessible. But this 2D digitization was only the first step in a larger plan.
UBC Library digitizes William Shakespeare’s First Folio
UBC Library has made its first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies openly accessible to the public by publishing a digitized version of the volume online through Open Collections.
William Shakespeare’s First Folio published in 1623 gifted to UBC Library
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.