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New Books at the Asian Library (June 2025)

By phchow on July 4, 2025

Posted in Chinese language, Circulation, Collections, Japanese language, New Books, South Asian language | Read More | No Comments

Snapshots of British Columbia’s Ghost Towns: Part 1—The Corbin Miners’ Strike

By Jill Henderson on July 3, 2025

One of our most popular blog posts of all time examines the captivating story of northern British Columbia ghost town Anyox, a former company-owned mining community abandoned in 1935. Anyox, B.C. (early 1900s) This week, we bring you Part 1 in a two-part series exploring lesser-known British Columbia ghost town stories. To kick off the […]

Posted in BC history, Carousel, Digitizers' Blog, ghost towns, labour histoy | Read More | No Comments

Experiencing Kōdō: A Weekend of Japanese Incense Culture at UBC

By phchow on June 27, 2025

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…

Posted in Collections, Displays, events, Japanese culture, Library display, Library event | Read More | No Comments

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

By ryan regier on June 26, 2025

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 […]

Posted in eResources Blog, Vendor Drops Access | Read More | No Comments

2025 Professional Development Award Recipients

By Library Communications on June 26, 2025

UBC Library has two annual professional development awards for its staff, which are the Suzanne Dodson Award and Diana Lukin Johnston Award. UBC Library is pleased to announce that Matthew Barrett, Aleha McCauley and Kyra Wheatley were named this year’s award winners.

Posted in awards, General, library staff, professional development | Read More | No Comments

Xwi7xwa Library hires first archivist

By Anna Moorhouse on June 26, 2025

When Jesse Carson joined Xwi7xwa Library earlier this year as its first full-time archivist, he was already familiar with some of the challenges—and the stacks of boxes—that awaited him.

Posted in archives, Carousel, General, Xwi7xwa Library | Read More | No Comments

Award-Winning Books and Films on Display at Asian Library

By phchow on June 23, 2025

Looking for your next great read or film? Come explore a new display at UBC Asian Library that celebrates award-winning works from across Asia. This multilingual collection brings together literature and cinema that have received major national and int…

Posted in Carousel, Chinese language, Collections, Displays, Japanese language, Korean language, Library display, South Asian language | Read More | No Comments

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

By Jill Henderson on June 19, 2025

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 […]

Posted in Carousel, Digitizers' Blog, ephemera, open collections | Read More | No Comments

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

By ryan regier on June 17, 2025

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 […]

Posted in Broken Links, eResources Blog | Read More | No Comments

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

By elimwong on June 17, 2025

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…

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