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New to the website

By feedwordpress on May 7, 2021

Recent additions and enhancements to the University Archives’ website include: Revised and enhanced our Indigenous Peoples Historical Resources – this includes a link to Verna Kirkness’ memorial tribute to the late Justice Thomas Berger, who together with Dr. Kirkness was instrumental in establishing the First Nations House of Learning Update to our list of faculty deans […]

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UBC Library – 2020/2021 Open Education Impact & Activity Report

By feedwordpress on May 7, 2021

UBC Library Open Education Impact & Activity Report – 2020/2021 The UBC Library Open Education Impact & Activity Report 2020-2021 is live on the Open UBC website. The report showcases some of the accomplishments for open education on both the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses. For more information, or to share feedback please contact scholarly.communications@ubc.ca Read the […]

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Point Grey’s original student hang-out – The Dolphins

By feedwordpress on December 1, 2020

[This is an expanded version of an article originally published in Alumni UBC’s Grad Gazette in 2010] Before The Pit, the Gallery Lounge, Koerner’s Pub, or any of the other popular student retreats on or around the UBC campus… there was The Dolphin. The Dolphin Tea House was located on Marine Drive, across from what […]

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Working as an Indigenous Work Learn Student at the UBC Archives

By feedwordpress on October 6, 2020

[The following was written by Kai Geddes, currently working for the UBC Archives in the Work Learn student employee programme] While continuing my academic career at the University of British Columbia (UBC) as a Masters in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) graduate student in September of 2019, from Vancouver Island University (VIU), I had the […]

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The early Chinese-Canadian presence at UBC

By feedwordpress on September 11, 2020

One of the projects undertaken by our colleagues at UBC Rare Books and Special Collections during the COVID-19 shut-down of on-campus operations  has been to develop a new on-line guide to Chinese-Canadian materials in their collections.  One of the subjects being researched for this project was the identity of the first Chinese-Canadian graduate of UBC. […]

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