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New Books at the Law Library – 26/06/23

By Law Library on June 23, 2026

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KE3109 .D66 2024
D.J. Doorey, The Law of Work, 3rd ed (Emond Montgomery Publications Limited, 2024).

LAW LIBRARY level 3: KF250 .S537 2024
A.M. Sinsheimer et al, Legal Writing, a Contemporary Approach, 3rd ed (West Academic, 2…

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Meet Avni Kant, recipient of the UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research

By Library Communications on June 18, 2026

Avni Kant, 4th year Faculty of Arts student, shares her story about winning the UBC Undergraduate Prize in Library Research.

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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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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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New Books at the Asian Library (May 2026)

By antheakm on June 1, 2026

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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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Asian Heritage Month 2026 – Asian Canadian Collections Round-Up!

By Katrina Yaskowich on May 14, 2026

In honour of Asian Heritage Month, we are rounding up 6 of our best collections that tell the stories of Asian Canadians in Canada and beyond. Over the years Open Collections has digitized multiple collections that deserve to be highlighted.

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