Featured Place at IKBLC: Kootenay River Room
Posted in Resources on May 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Kootenay River Room, a large, bright and airy group study room (room 422) on the 4th floor of the Barber Centre, is named after the Kootenay River
B.C. digitization project in the Alberni Valley Times
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4th, 2011 No Comments »
An article on an innovative project that has received funding from the B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) appears in the Alberni Valley Times. The project involves the digitization of thousands of images related to the community growth of Port Alberni, located on Vancouver Island. The BCHDP was launched by UBC’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre [...]
BC History Digitization Program: 2011 recipients
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Twenty-one projects from around the province have been named as successful recipients of the 2011 B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) funding awards. The digitization program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, was launched in 2006. It provides matching funds that help libraries, archives, museums and other organizations digitize unique historical items, including [...]
Digitization project/program in the Abbotsford News
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2011 No Comments »
An article about the digitization of photo archives from the Reach Gallery Museum appears in the Abbotsford News. This project received funding from the BC History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. You can view the article here, and find out more about the BC History Digitization Program here.
Ian Wilson Keynote Speech From the BC Digitization Symposium 2009 (IKBLC Webcast)
Posted in Events on Feb 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Ian Wilson describes the new information landscape and its impact on libraries and archives.
Insight newsletter – Fall 2009 (posted October 16)
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2009 No Comments »
The Fall 2009 issue of Insight, UBC Library’s newsletter for faculty, is now available. Read about digitization, the First International Open Access Week, UBC Library Vault, collections developments, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and more. You can view the issue here: Insight – Fall 2009
UBC Players’ Club on display at UBC AMS Gallery
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, [...]
Scanning the past with the B.C. History Digitization Program
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2008 No Comments »
The City of Surrey Archives on 56 Avenue and 176A Street is digitizing thousands of old black-and-white negative photographs donated by The Leader in 1992. Some were used in the newspaper, but most have never been seen by the public. This is the biggest digitization project the archives has ever undertaken, and the first time [...]
Minghui Yu
Allan
Simon Neame
Glenn Drexhage
Kyuwon Kim