Administrative

We’re moving (but only temporarily)

The Rare Books & Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room on Level 1 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) will be temporarily relocated to IKBLC 142 beginning May 9th, 2022, due to construction for an upgrade project. To prepare for this relocation, the Rare Books & Special Collections and University Archives Reading […]

New to the website

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 […]

Working as an Indigenous Work Learn Student at the UBC Archives

[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 […]