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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.

Posted in Carousel, Exhibitions, exhibits, General, Music Art and Architecture Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, UBC Archives | Read More | No Comments

Myth-busting the “Cows On Campus” Photograph

By feedwordpress on August 13, 2021

[This is an expanded version of an article originally published in Alumni UBC’s Grad Gazette in 2010] One of the enduring legends from the history of the University of British Columbia is that the Faculty of Agriculture’s dairy herd was once allowed to graze along Main Mall.  But did this really happen? It is true that, during […]

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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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