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Closed for Canada Day July 1st, 2025

The Law Library will be CLOSED on Tuesday, July 1st for Canada Day

Experiencing Kōdō: A Weekend of Japanese Incense Culture at UBC

This spring, UBC Library was honoured to co-present a weekend of public incense gatherings and lectures on the Japanese incense tradition. Thoughtfully organized by the Dōjin Japanese Arts Society, the program allowed participants to experience incense…

Access Issues with AMS (American Mathematical Society) forcing users to login twice

Users trying to access AMS (American Mathematical Society) books or journals are currently being forced to login twice to access content. After logging in via the library website and landing on the AMS page, AMS will send users to a ‘Access through your institution” page when trying to access full text. If you search for […]

National Indigenous History Month 2025

Raven and the First Men. Sculpture by Bill Reid. Photograph by Scarlett Sappho. CC BY-SA 2.0 Reflection and Connection June is recognized as Indigenous History Month in Canada, a time offering increased opportunities to learn about and celebrate the history, heritage, and accomplishments of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. As a companion to many […]

Here for a Good Time, and a Long Time: Ephemera in Open Collections

Ephemera, by its very definition, was never meant to stick around. Defined as items that have been preserved despite the fact that they were not intended to be at their time of production, the term is used to describe commonplace paper objects like flyers, menus, event tickets, postcards, and more. Valentine’s card (1919) from the […]

“ATYPON – Access Denied” error impacting Wiley, Sage, AAS, Science Journal and more

Users will see a “ATYPON – Access Denied” error when trying to access a large number of publisher websites. ATYPON is a platform provide that many publishers use to allow them to authenticate users. Multiple Universities are seeing this problem. As a workaround, please use the OpenAthens Proxy by placing this text in front of […]

New Books at the Law Library – 25/06/17

LAW LIBRARY level 3: HV1559.C3 L37 2024
M.D. Lepofsky, Swimming Up Niagara Falls! The Battle to Get Disability Rights Added to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (CNIB Beyond Print, 2024).
Online access: https://doi.org/10.22329/wyaj.v39.8579…

Library Catalogue is Down

UBC Library Catalogue is currently not working https://webcat.library.ubc.ca
IT is working on it. Links to print books from Summon and other sources will not work while it is down.

Chung | Lind Gallery Summer Hours

Due to staffing changes, the Chung | Lind Gallery will have reduced hours for summer 2025. The planned summer opening hours are: June 11-14, 2025: Open from 10 am-5 pm  June 17-28, 2025: Closed  July and August, the Gallery will be open Wednesdays to Saturdays from 10 am-5 pm As opening hours are subject to […]