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«Emigrante» Italian Migrant Stories: Memories and Secrets around the Table  

By Katrina Yaskowich on June 11, 2026

An introduction to the new «Emigrante» collection on Open Collections

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Meet Nathan Daykin, recipient of the UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research

By Library Communications on June 11, 2026

Nathan Daykin, 5th year Faculty of Arts student, shares his story about winning the UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research.

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Explore cIRcle: Open Educational Resources (OER)

By Leila Malkin on June 9, 2026

Integral Calculus with Applications to Life Sciences by Tsopméné, Paul, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Queer Geography Dictionary by Sloan Morgan, Onyx and Nassim Zand Dizari, CC BY-NC 4.0. Open educational resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available for others to use, adapt, and share. UBC has an ongoing commitment to OER as […]

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New Books at the Law Library – 26/06/02

By Law Library on June 2, 2026

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KF250 .C36 2024
C.L. Campbell & O.R. Duhart, Persuasive Legal Writing: A Storytelling Approach, 2nd ed (Aspen Publishing, 2024).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KF250 .R425 2025
J. Regalia, Level Up Your Legal Writing: Techniques and…

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Cut, Paste, Print: How UBC Library is making space for zine culture across both campuses

By Anna Moorhouse on June 2, 2026

Librarians and library staff have been finding creative ways to introduce zine culture into classrooms.

Posted in Carousel, General, Koerner Library, Open Education, Scholarly communications, Teaching and Learning Stories, UBC Okanagan, UBC Okanagan Library | Read More | No Comments

New Books at the Asian Library (May 2026)

By antheakm on June 1, 2026

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

Service Update: New Ask Us Contact Form

By lrowat01 on June 1, 2026

Effective today, the UBC Library Ask Us website provides students, staff, faculty, alumni and guests with FAQs and a new form to report online access issues and engage with our team. 

Library employees are encouraged to report online access issues …

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The Crane Library: The History of UBC’s Accessible Library for the Blind

By Katrina Yaskowich on May 28, 2026

This week in advance of National AccessAbility Week 2026, we are taking a dive into Open Collections to trace the history of the Crane Memorial Library, UBC’s library for the blind and partially sighted – and the remarkable people who made it happen. This post is part of a short blog series inspired by National […]

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Meet cIRcle’s New Research Assistant!

By Vanessa Choy on May 26, 2026

UBC Koerner Library Exterior © UBC Library Communications and Marketing CC BY-NC-ND 2.0   Hello everyone, I’m Vanessa, the new Digital Repository Research Assistant at cIRcle for the Summer 2026 term. As a second year student in the UBC iSchool’s Master of Library and Information Studies program (MLIS), my main interest is working with digital […]

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Xwi7xwa Library closed for renovations from June 4 to 16

By Library Communications on May 25, 2026

The branch will be closed to the public during construction.

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