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.
The exhibit, curated by UBC iSchool student Ashlynn Prasad, features historical photographs of B.C. landmarks.
From the Vancouver Sun
The Library’s Digitization Centre has helped UBC and CiTR archive a collection of radio clips from the 1940s and onwards.
Learn how the BC History Digitization Program, the UBC Library Digitization Centre, the UBC University Archives have contributed to this project in this Ubyssey article.
UBC Library preserves its physical and digital collections for current and future generations of scholars, researchers, students and lifelong learners.
Chris Hives, UBC Library’s University Archivist, is one of a handful of interviewees commenting in the Ubyssey on the Great Trek – the seminal 1922 student march that convinced the provincial government to construct UBC. For more on this historic event, please read “A Trek to remember: the fading of UBC’s early years.“
UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections and the University Archives will have reduced hours through the month of August.
Three UBC campus landmarks are commonly referred to as “cairns,” and each has a unique history. Find out more in this Trek Online article, written by Erwin Wodarczak of UBC Library’s University Archives division.
