Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Blog

The new issue of the BCLA Browser features a story on UBC Library’s strategic plan. Links to the article, and other pieces about BC’s library community, can be found here.

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UBC Library’s new strategic plan is featured in the latest issue of the newsletter from the CPSLD – the Council of Post Secondary Library Directors. You can view the article here - it appears on page 23 of the newsletter.

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The announcement about the donation of Douglas Coupland’s archives to UBC Library has received extensive media coverage. The story received national coverage in The Globe and Mail. It was also covered by CTV Online, CBC Online and Metro Vancouver. CBC Radio One also interviewed Coupland and Ralph Stanton, Head of Rare Books and Special Collections, and Radio [...]

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Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

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The April 2010 issue of College & Research Libraries News, an American publication, features an image from UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections on the front cover. Some additional information about the image and the UBC Library Vault is provided inside the publication. You can view the issue here.

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UBC Library’s exceptional Alice in Wonderland collection, housed in Rare Books and Special Collections, is featured on CBC TV news. The reporter, Bob Nixon, features some thoughts and a video clip of the story here.

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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.

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Join us at UBC as we take part in the First International Open Access Week. Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and [...]

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Art and book lovers can now view Canvas Treasures that feature rare images from UBC Library’s special collections. From September 21 to October 12, 2009, a selection of these striking canvases are on display in the gallery space of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, located on level two and to the left of the [...]

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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 [...]

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