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Event Planning Industry Overview

Event Planning Industry Overview
Linda
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New Westminster: Buildings That Endure and Those That Vanished

If you love exploring historic photographs and imagining the stories behind them, you may have noticed that information about old images is often scarce, and much of what we know may survive only in local archives or through community memory. Yet, these photographs remain powerful windows into the past, inviting us to rediscover forgotten stories. […]

UBC Theses and Dissertations at Library and Archives Canada

Photo courtesy: Paul Joseph / UBC Brand & Marketing It’s now easier to find UBC graduate theses and dissertations online. After years of collaboration, coverage of theses and dissertations held by cIRcle has been significantly expanded in Library and Archive Canada’s (LAC) public Theses Canada portal, which includes items from across nearly 70 Canadian universities. LAC […]

Bloedel Limited Fonds, Part 2: The Powell River Company

Last week, we took a brief look at the origins of the Powell River Company. You can read that post here. To recap: The Powell River Company Ltd. operated from 1909 to 1959 and was once considered one of the largest forest products companies in the world, producing newsprint, paper, lumber, panelboard, and containers. This […]

BSI – access issues

When trying to access BSI Knowledge – BSOL, an error message appears: “Oops! That wasn’t supposed to happen. We encountered an error processing this request. Please get in touch with our support teams (details are below) and referenc…

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, […]

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 […]

A Closer Look at the Conservation and Digitization of Shakespeare’s Second Folio

This blog post was written by Lauren Wong, with invaluable help and advice from Chelsea Shriver, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian of UBC Library. In 2023, the Digitization Centre completed the digitization of Shakespeare’s First Folio, making it more accessible to people worldwide. We previously wrote a blog post about this achievement, which you […]

Menus from the Chung Collection : Banff Springs Hotel

This week we are time-traveling through taste. Our spotlight is on the legendary Banff Springs Hotel, a Chateau-style hotel perched in the Rockies that has been delighting visitors for more than a century. Built during the golden age of Canadian railway travel, this iconic resort was more than just a place to stay, it was […]

Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office Impact Report 2024/25

Recently the Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office released its 2024/2025 Impact and Activity Report, showcasing some of the year’s highlights and accomplishments.

For more information, or to share feedback please contact scholarly.communic…