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Giving Day 2025

By Anna Moorhouse on March 26, 2025

On UBC Giving Day, April 3, we invite you to help keep UBC Library a vibrant hub of knowledge and inspiration. Join us in fostering a strong library that will continue to serve the UBC community and beyond for generations to come.

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UBC Library digitizes the Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection

By Anna Moorhouse on March 24, 2025

UBC Library has made the Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection openly accessible through Open Collections, publishing a digitized version of the collection online.

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New French language resources at Education Library

By Anna Moorhouse on March 20, 2025

UBC Education Library’s collection of French-language resources underwent a significant revitalization this year.

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After 64 years, book finally returned to UBC Library

By phoebe chan on March 17, 2025

In January, UBC Library received an unexpected package containing a 1931 edition of the book Camping and Woodcraft, a letter explaining the borrower’s tardiness and a $100 cheque.

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Stanley Munn and Patricia Cucman win the 2025 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for their book on Group of Seven artist J.E.H. Macdonald.

By Library Communications on March 10, 2025

Stanley Munn and Patricia Cucman have won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for their book To see what he saw: J.E.H. Macdonald and the O’Hara years, 1924-1932.

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Trans* Journeys: Centering marginalized voices through open pedagogy and open publishing

By Anna Moorhouse on March 5, 2025

There is a growing interest in giving students the opportunity to engage with the open publishing process directly as part of their coursework.

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UBC Library achieves funding goal for the George Bowering Reading Room

By Library Communications on March 3, 2025

Thanks to the generous support and dedication of our contributors and champions, the George Bowering Collection and Reading Room in Rare Books and Special Collections at UBC Library has become a reality!

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Exploring Tairiku Nippō: A historical Japanese Canadian newspaper at UBC Library

By Anna Moorhouse on February 24, 2025

Since its launch on UBC Open Collections, the digitized Tairiku Nippō has been viewed more than 2.5 million times by scholars from around the world.

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Holiday Closure for eResources & Access Help

By park on December 24, 2024

Happy Holidays!
The eResources & Access Team will be away from the afternoon of Dec. 24th until Jan. 1st. Please report any access problems using the Electronic Resources Help form, and we will work on them when we are back on Jan 2nd.

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