Posted in Resources on Jun 16th, 2011 No Comments »
The Skeena River Room, room 317 in the Irving K Barber Learning Centre, is a group study room that is named after the Skeena River, the second-longest river entirely within British Columbia’s borders (the largest being the Fraser River). Six-hundred and twenty-one kilometers long, it flows south and west through the Skeena and Coast Mountains, [...]
Posted in Resources on Jun 5th, 2011 No Comments »
This week our featured place, and Irving K. Barber Learning Centre room name, is Hazelton.
Posted in Resources on May 27th, 2011 No Comments »
This week, we are taking a closer look at the community of Hartley Bay — the community that the Hartley Bay Meeting Room (room 266), in the Irving K Barber Learning Centre is named after.
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 [...]
Posted in Events, Resources on Oct 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted as part of the Robson Reading Series at IKBLC
Posted in Events, News on Sep 14th, 2010 No Comments »
In collaboration with the Robson Reading Series and UBC Robson Square Bookstore, IKBLC presents Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2010 1 Comment »
A handful of First Nations projects and the first out-of-province initiative are among the successful recipients of the 2010/11 B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) 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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 10th, 2010 No Comments »
An exhibition of First Nations portraits, on display during March 2010 at the Learning Centre Gallery, is featured in the latest edition of UBC Reports. B.C. artist Patricia Richardson Logie recently donated the portrait collection to UBC Library. You can view the article here.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Patricia Logie, a B.C. artist who has donated her portrait collection Chronicles of Pride to UBC Library, is featured in the Coast Reporter, a Sunshine Coast newspaper.
Minghui Yu
Allan
Simon Neame
Glenn Drexhage
Kyuwon Kim