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During Pride, reflecting on ASK

By cshriver on June 30, 2023

Guest blogger Atreya Madrone learns about an early gay rights group in Canada during a summer Professional Experience project.

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Japanese Great Reads 2022/23: Highlights

By phchow on June 28, 2023

New Japanese Great Reads titles have arrived! Check out latest award-winning novels, thought-provoking nonfiction selections, fascinating manga offerings, and more. Come to Asian Library’s Upper Floor and browse the new arrivals of leisure reading titles. The 2022/23 Great Reads collection was curated by Nobu Kawaguchi, Asian Library Student Librarian and MLIS student at UBC School […]

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Witch trials in the vertical files

By cshriver on June 23, 2023

Many thanks to guest blogger Atreya Madrone for contributing the below post! Atreya is a graduate student at the UBC School of Information and is completing a professional experience with RBSC this summer working with vertical files, which are individual or small groups of archival materials. This is part of an ongoing series of blog […]

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New books at the Asian Library (May 2023)

By phchow on June 1, 2023

Japanese
Chinese
Korean
South Asian

BQ2240 F367 F86 2023
東アジア仏教の生活規則梵網経 : 最古の形と発展の歴史 / 船山徹著 / 京都市 : 臨川書店
BQ8249 G947 H54 2023
東アジア仏教思想史の構築 : 凝然・明恵と華厳思想 / 野呂靖, 張文良, 金天鶴編 / 京都市 : 法蔵館
DS832 O56 2022
「新しいアイヌ学」のすすめ : 知里幸恵の夢をもとめて / 小野有五 / 東京 : 藤原書店
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Collection Spotlight: National Indigenous History Month

By epederso on June 1, 2023

The latest collection spotlight is up! Visit UBC Education Library’s book display: June is National Indigenous History Month! Many of the items on display can be found in our Indigenous Literature and Education booklists. Connections to the Curriculum: In BC’s K-12 curriculum, First Peoples content, perspectives, and Principles of Learning are acknowledged and affirmed through […]

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New Books at Education Library: June 2023

By epederso on June 1, 2023

D769.8.A6 P365 2022 Seen and unseen: what Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adams’s photographs reveal about the Japanese American incarceration / Elizabeth Partridge, Lauren Tamaki. D774.I5 S73 2022 In harm’s way: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the story of its survivors: an adaptation for young readers / Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias. E185.61 […]

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