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Working as an Indigenous Work Learn Student at the UBC Archives

By feedwordpress on October 6, 2020

[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 […]

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The early Chinese-Canadian presence at UBC

By feedwordpress on September 11, 2020

One of the projects undertaken by our colleagues at UBC Rare Books and Special Collections during the COVID-19 shut-down of on-campus operations  has been to develop a new on-line guide to Chinese-Canadian materials in their collections.  One of the subjects being researched for this project was the identity of the first Chinese-Canadian graduate of UBC. […]

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An Archival Science student jumps at an opportunity

By feedwordpress on August 31, 2020

[The following was written by Manfred Nissley, currently working for the UBC Archives in the Work Learn student employee programme] A year after starting at the University of British Columbia as an archival science and library science student, a work-learn position opened up in University Archives. I applied for this position because I saw it […]

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