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UBC Library’s Joan Gillis Fonds is added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register

UBC Library’s Joan Gillis Fonds is added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register

By Library Communications on July 26, 2022

UBC Library’s Joan Gillis Fonds has been added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register in recognition of its historical value.

Posted in General | Tagged with acquisitions, Asian Library, collections, Japanese Canadian history, Joan Gillis Fonds, press release, Rare Books and Special Collections, UNESCO

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UNESCO Declaration focuses on digital assets

By Glenn Drexhage on January 23, 2013

  The protection of digital assets is the focus of the UNESCO / UBC Vancouver Declaration on Digitization and Preservation, released by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). The statement emerged from an international conference, held in Vancouver in September 2012 and organized by UNESCO in co-operation with UBC, that focused on the preservation […]

Posted in General | Tagged with collections, Digital Initiatives, digitization, preservation, UNESCO

Digitally preserved knowledge focus of UNESCO conference

Digitally preserved knowledge focus of UNESCO conference

By Andrea Coutts on September 27, 2012

UBC welcomes international digital knowledge experts at UNESCO conference “The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation.”

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged with collections, digitization, Media coverage, preservation, UNESCO

UBC hosts world’s experts on safeguarding digital assets

By Jessica Woolman on September 26, 2012

Digital knowledge experts from academia, government, and IT converge in Vancouver for an international conference hosted by UBC on digital preservation.

Posted in Events, General | Tagged with collections, conference, digitization, preservation, SLAIS, UNESCO

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