Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) at UBC Library’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) will be closed from the 3rd of August until the 4th of September 2007. The closure is required to allow the joining of the Phase I and Phase II buildings of the IKBLC to take place. A long temporary wall must be removed and the lighting, suspended ceiling, piping, data, and electrical systems of the two phases joined. RBSC staff will occupy temporary quarters in room 2:27 of the IKBLC in August.
There will be reduced telephone and computing capacity in the temporary space. Staff will be working to clear processing backlogs but will not be able to provide public service since the reading room of RBSC will be at the centre of the construction. The RBSC reading room will reopen on September 5.
The Library regrets any inconvenience this closure may cause. According to the present construction schedule Rare Books and Special Collections will take possession of its final and much expanded reading room at the end of November 2007.
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- Temples of knowledge : art & science / texts by Alberto Manguel, António Filipe Pimentel, Stefano Salis; photographs, Massimo Listri.
- Jewish languages and book culture / edited by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger & César Merchán-Hamann.
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- Ductus : an online course in paleography / course, Bernard J. Muir ; software and graphics, Nick Kennedy ; video and ms images, Graeme Smith.
