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Library service update: Sage title retention list for 2026

By Library Communications on December 11, 2025

UBC Library has completed negotiations with Sage to restructure our title package. Learn more about the upcoming changes to Sage.

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Gift-wrapping with care: Highlights from our workshop “Planet-Friendly Wrapping: Folding Furoshiki for Sustainable Gift-Giving”

By phchow on December 10, 2025

On November 19, the Asian Library welcomed members of the UBC and local community for a hands-on celebration of culture, creativity, and sustainability through the Japanese art of furoshiki fabric wrapping. Thanks to generous support of the UBC Inspiri…

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A Conversation with Jennifer Gagnon

By Anna Moorhouse on December 10, 2025

We sat down with Dr. Jennifer Gagnon, UBC Library EDI Scholar-in-Residence, to talk about about her work: the challenges, the highlights, and what’s up next.

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Asian Library Board Games – New Additions to the Collection

By phchow on December 3, 2025

Asian Library’s board games are the perfect way to keep warm and dry while having fun with friends and family. Come check out our recently-acquired board games, including traditional Asian games as well as newer games with Asian themes. The Asian…

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Asian Library Team Picks: Holiday Reads

By phchow on December 2, 2025

Enjoy the holidays with some recommended reads from the Asian Library Team. Asian Library staff, librarians and student employees have chosen some of their favourite titles available to take out for the winter break. More selections to come!

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New Books at the Asian Library (November 2025)

By phchow on December 2, 2025

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Behind-the-scenes: UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections and University Archives upgrades

By Library Communications on November 19, 2025

Construction is well underway on several significant UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) and University Archives (UA) projects. A flurry of activity has taken over RBSC’s spaces, set to a symphony of power tools, whirling fans and shop vacs. The walls are stripped down to their metal studs, and the cement floors and […]

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New Westminster: Buildings That Endure and Those That Vanished

By Minghui Zhou on November 19, 2025

If you love exploring historic photographs and imagining the stories behind them, you may have noticed that information about old images is often scarce, and much of what we know may survive only in local archives or through community memory. Yet, these photographs remain powerful windows into the past, inviting us to rediscover forgotten stories. […]

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Bloedel Limited Fonds, Part 2: The Powell River Company

By Minghui Zhou on November 6, 2025

Last week, we took a brief look at the origins of the Powell River Company. You can read that post here. To recap: The Powell River Company Ltd. operated from 1909 to 1959 and was once considered one of the largest forest products companies in the world, producing newsprint, paper, lumber, panelboard, and containers. This […]

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New Books at the Asian Library (October 2025)

By phchow on November 4, 2025

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