UBC’s Okanagan Library and the Okanagan Regional Library are partnering to open a new Innovation Library this September.
The pilot, funded partially by the Irving K. Barber Learning Fund and a private British Columbia-based foundation, will open the Innovation Library within the downtown Kelowna Branch of the Okanagan Regional Library. The library is the result of community consultation with local residents, who asked for the convenience of location paired with access to UBC Library resources, says UBC Okanagan Chief Librarian Heather Berringer.
The space will provide a place for public online research and access to many UBC resources for alumni and community members, as well as students and faculty who may prefer its central location. In addition to the resources, a Community Innovation Librarian will provide in-person support and academic consultations to support students, faculty, alumni and community members.
“The Innovation Library will benefit UBC Okanagan students engaged in community-based learning and co-operative education placements,” Berringer says. “It is also equipped to support faculty members working on off-campus initiatives including regional socio-economic development projects in and with communities. And it is open for public use.”
The library is expected to open in early September.
For more information, read the news release.
A similar story also appeared in:
- Kelowna Daily Courier, “UBCO to open public space for research inside library,” (May 22)
- Kelowna Capital News, “UBC Innovation Library at Kelowna Library main branch,” (May 27)
- Library Journal InfoDocket, “New Public Library / Academic Library Partnership Bringing Innovation Library to Coming to British Columbia,” (May 30)
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C.T. Walton MA et al., eds., Charlesworth & Percy on Negligence, 13th ed. (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2014).
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Brandon L. Garrett, Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014).
UBC Library’s digital collections are accessed by scholars and students globally, and new content is added regularly. Here’s a glimpse of some recent additions:
- Puban Collection
Consisting of 45,000 hand-stitched volumes spanning Chinese history, literature and thought from the 12th to 19th centuries, the Puban Collection was acquired with the help of UBC professor Ho Ping-ti in 1959. - Discorder Magazine
Devoted to in-depth coverage of Vancouver’s independent music scene, Discorder magazine is published by UBC’s student-run CiTR 101.9 FM radio station. All existing issues of the magazine are now available to view online, and new issues will be added as they are published. - BC Sessional Papers, Phase 2
BC’s Sessional Papers document political, historical, economic and cultural history of British Columbia. New additions to this collection include committee reports, petitions, correspondence, maps, voter lists and more from 1887-1911.
To explore these and other digital collections, please visit the digital collections portal.
Be sure to watch for UBC Library’s new Open Collections website, a new, user-friendly platform for the Library’s digital collections. Launching summer 2015.
This story originally appeared in the Friends 2015 spring newsletter.
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