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Celebrating 300,000 Items in Open Collections!

UBC Open Collections brings together locally created and managed digital content from the library’s open repositories: cIRcle, digitized collections, Explore Archives at UBC and UBC Borealis. The content digitized by us here at the UBC Digitization Centre began as material held at various UBC Library branches including Rare Books and Special Collections, the University Archives, […]

UBC Library 2025/26 Senate Report

UBC Library’s annual Senate Report (2025/26) is now available. Read our highlights from the past fiscal year which include advancing research, learning and scholarship, engaging with communities, creating and delivering responsive collections, inspirin…

New Collection: The Democrat

This week we are pleased to announce that there is a new collection available on Open Collections! The Democrat was the official publication of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (NDP) from 1961 until 2014. It provided NDP members and other readers with news of party activities, information on a wide range of public policy […]

UBC launches the first free open-access Nepali textbook

Developed within the Faculty of Arts, the textbook was created through a collaboration between faculty, students, and staff.

Asian Library Team Picks: Summer Reads

Enjoy the beautiful summer weather with a cool dessert and a good book! Our librarians, staff and student employees have selected some of their favourite reads, all available to borrow from the Asian Library. We hope these recommendations help you find…

Crime, Cults, and Murder in Open Collections: Sources on Historical Crime

The staff at the Digitization Centre provide suggestions and insights into how researchers can learn more about historical crime in BC on UBC Open Collections. Whether you’re interested in crime, cults, legal records or Gold Rush era con-men, this blog post offers researchers a place to start looking when looking into the darker sides of BC’s history.

The Shape of Tomorrow: Envisioning Futures with AI and Beyond

When you think about how AI and technology might change our world, do you feel excited and optimistic, or confused, anxious, and perhaps even afraid? Either way, you are not alone.  The Asian Library’s new display, The Shape of Tomo…

Teach Me How: Basic Advanced Searching

This week we are taking a dive into Open Collections to highlight more tips and tricks for doing research in UBC Open Collections. This blog post covers some more advanced search techniques, so if you have not already, we strongly recommend you check out our previous blog posts on how to search Open Collections. Example […]

The Periódico Unión Cívica Collection: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Dominican Republic

Today we are highlighting a new and exciting collection on Open Collections. The Periódico Unión Cívica collection is a rare Spanish-language periodical that offers rich insights into the politics of the Dominican Republic in the immediate aftermath of the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship. Physical copies of this newspaper are also held at the National Archives of […]