Posted in Resources on Aug 25th, 2011 No Comments »
Since 2009, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre has webcasted select lectures from the Vancouver Institute. Past lectures can now also be found on UBC Library’s cIRcle’s Vancouver Institute community collections page.
Posted in Events, News on Apr 26th, 2010 No Comments »
As part of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, Randall Jimerson presents on the history of recordkeeping and archives, and reveals that they have often been used to consolidate and enforce political power, often to control or oppress people. Far from being neutral repositories for facts and evidence, archives have always been sites [...]
Posted in Events on Feb 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Ian Wilson describes the new information landscape and its impact on libraries and archives.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 28th, 2009 No Comments »
The Chinese Experience in B.C. website, a project involving UBC Library and the City of Vancouver Archives, is featured in the Vancouver Courier. You can view the article here: http://www2.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=bb4b8c74-b4d2-496e-b1c2-f556cba832fb
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2009 No Comments »
The Chinese Experience in British Columbia, a new website that offers a fascinating look at a century of local Chinese-Canadian heritage, is featured in the Vancouver Observer. The site, which features digitized holdings from the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection at UBC, and the Yip family and Yip Sang Company collection at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2009 No Comments »
UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre are featured in the September 2009 issue of UBC Reports. You can read about the digitization of UBC’s first 100 theses, a project undertaken by University Archives, here: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2009/09/04/women-were-first-to-earn-ubc-grad-degrees-first-100-theses-project/ And you can read about new offerings from the Chapman Learning Commons here: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2009/09/04/uncommon-learning-opportunities/
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2009 No Comments »
UBC Library Vault, your guide to the wonderful world of the Library’s rare and special collections, is now on Twitter. Sign up at www.twitter.com/ubclibraryvault and get up-to-the-minute info on the Vault and UBC Library, along with related news and events. We share tweets that are relevant to the UBC community as well as readers in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
The Bowen Island Community Museum and Archives has launched its photographic database, which features more than 3,000 photos. This project was supported by the B.C. History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. For more information on the Bowen Island project, please visit www.bowenhistory.ca.
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2008 No Comments »
An in-depth exhibit of UBC’s first student club will be on display from Monday, November 24 to Friday, November 28 in the UBC AMS Gallery, located in the Student Union Building on the Point Grey campus. This show is part of UBC’s Centenary Celebration (http://www.100.ubc.ca/welcome.html). The group’s rich legacy of archives is also being digitized, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
A Prince Rupert project that is part of the B.C. History Digitization Program – an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – is featured in the Prince Rupert Daily News. The article, published on August 28, 2008, appears below. Please note that the program’s successful 2008 candidates are listed at www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/ps/2008Projects.html. —————————————————————————————————— By [...]
Minghui Yu
Allan
Simon Neame
Glenn Drexhage
Kyuwon Kim