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New Books at the Law Library – 25/10/28

LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KE452.A5 S56 2025
V.V. Shroff, Canadian Animal Law, 2nd ed (LexisNexis, 2025).

The Old Auditorium at 100 at the Music, Art & Architecture Library

This year marks the 100th anniversary UBC’s Point Grey Campus, including the Old Auditorium, which opened on October 14-15, 1925. To celebrate this milestone, the Music, Art & Architecture (MAA) Library in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre opened an exhibit highlighting the history of the Old Auditorium through archival materials.

Bloedel Limited Fonds, Part 1: The Powell River Company

In 2016, we briefly explored the MacMillan Bloedel Limited Fonds and its predecessor, the Powell River Company, which you can read here. A quick recap: MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. began in 1909 as the Powell River Paper Company Ltd. Over the years, it became one of the largest forest products companies in the world, producing newsprint, […]

Climate Action Week 2025 at UBC Library

Join us for Climate Action Week from November 1 to 7. UBC Library will be hosting events, activities, and exhibits alongside other libraries from across Canada.  

Arts Multilingual Week: Fall 2025 at UBC

UBC Library will be hosting Multilingual Resources Pop-Ups and workshops from Oct. 27 to 31, as part of Arts Multilingual Week Fall 2025 at UBC.

Factiva: Excessive downloading incident

Due to excessive downloading, Factiva may impose a temporary restriction on downloading to one article at a time. Factiva has reported multiple sessions of excessive downloading including several sessions where over 10,000 articles were downloaded. We are investigating. Please remember that most resources have limits on what can be downloaded during one session. Almost all […]

Open Access Week: Who Owns our Knowledge?

Photo courtesy: Hanne Pearce (CC BY-NC 2.0) This year’s Open Access Week theme – “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” – speaks to the rapid and significant disruption underway in the current open access landscape, requiring nuanced discussion in regards to ownership, control, permissions, and equality. Open UBC and UBC Library are offering numerous free events that […]

Meet Caitlin Lindsay, Access Services Librarian at UBC Library

Caitlin Lindsay, Access Services Librarian, shares her experience at UBC Library and talks about her appreciation for the Library’s career growth opportunities.

New Books at the Law Library – 25/10/14

LAW LIBRARY level 3: K2100 .O74 2025
K. O’Regan, Courts and the Body Politic (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
Online access: https://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=14278968

LAW LIBRARY learning commons (level 2): KF246 .B46 2025
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