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Planet-Friendly Wrapping: Folding Furoshiki for Sustainable Gift-Giving

By phchow on October 28, 2025

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The Old Auditorium at 100 at the Music, Art & Architecture Library

By phoebe chan on October 24, 2025

This year marks the 100th anniversary UBC’s Point Grey Campus, including the Old Auditorium, which opened on October 14-15, 1925. To celebrate this milestone, the Music, Art & Architecture (MAA) Library in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre opened an exhibit highlighting the history of the Old Auditorium through archival materials.

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Bloedel Limited Fonds, Part 1: The Powell River Company

By Minghui Zhou on October 23, 2025

In 2016, we briefly explored the MacMillan Bloedel Limited Fonds and its predecessor, the Powell River Company, which you can read here. A quick recap: MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. began in 1909 as the Powell River Paper Company Ltd. Over the years, it became one of the largest forest products companies in the world, producing newsprint, […]

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A Closer Look at the Conservation and Digitization of Shakespeare’s Second Folio

By Lauren Wong on October 9, 2025

This blog post was written by Lauren Wong, with invaluable help and advice from Chelsea Shriver, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian of UBC Library. In 2023, the Digitization Centre completed the digitization of Shakespeare’s First Folio, making it more accessible to people worldwide. We previously wrote a blog post about this achievement, which you […]

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Science Literacy Week 2025: From Sea to Space with the Asian Library Collection

By phchow on October 6, 2025

From October 6 to 12, Asian Library will participate in the annual celebration of Science Literacy Week in Canada! This year’s theme, “From Sea to Space,” invites everyone to reflect on science’s role in shaping our understanding of the world. Guided b…

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New Books at the Asian Library (September 2025)

By phchow on October 2, 2025

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Menus from the Chung Collection : Banff Springs Hotel

By Minghui Zhou on September 25, 2025

This week we are time-traveling through taste. Our spotlight is on the legendary Banff Springs Hotel, a Chateau-style hotel perched in the Rockies that has been delighting visitors for more than a century. Built during the golden age of Canadian railway travel, this iconic resort was more than just a place to stay, it was […]

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Yucho Chow, Part 2: Chow’s Enduring Impact

By Jill Henderson on September 11, 2025

In our previous blog post, we introduced the remarkable Yucho Chow, a 20th-century Vancouver photographer who pushed back against the discriminatory racial practices of the era by welcoming anyone—regardless of race or nationality—into his studio. The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection and the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs, both available […]

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Welcome to New & Returning Students!

By Law Library on September 2, 2025

Welcome to new and returning students!- From the Law Library Staff

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Law Library Hours

By Law Library on September 2, 2025

See https://hours.library.ubc.ca/#view-law for up-to-date hours, including exception & holiday hours.

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