Read about the latest developments at UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in the Fall 2008 issue of the CPSLD Newsletter – a publication from the Council of Post Secondary Library Directors, British Columbia.

You can view the newsletter here (UBC news begins on page 17):

http://www.cpsld.ca/Newsletter/Newsletter%20Vol.19%20No.2%20Fall%202008

In the Globe and Mail’s Canadian University Report, UBC Library received an overall library satisfaction grade of A-, compared to the national average of B+.

You can view further details here:

http://www.globecampus.ca/navigator/university-of-british-columbia-the/

The Room to Read charity is featured in a blog from The Province newspaper. This charity is supported in part by the Live-in for Literacy campaign, which features students living in university libraries to raise funds. UBC students participated in this campaign for the first time last year.

You can view the blog entry here:

http://communities.canada.com/theprovince/blogs/withoutborders/archive/2008/10/11/making-room-to-read.aspx

Deb Wilson, a UBC Librarian who recently retired, is featured in Tapestry, the newsletter from the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth.

You can view a PDF of the article here:

http://www.tag.ubc.ca/resources/tapestry/08/howWeDoThingsTapestry53.pdf

The Learning and Teaching Support Hub – a collaboration involving various UBC groups that is based at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – is featured in e-Strategy from UBC Information Technology.

You can view the article here:

http://update.estrategy.ubc.ca/2008/10/01/five-partners-one-plan

A project that is part of the B.C. History Digitization Program – an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – was recently featured in the Jewish Independent.

You can view the article here:

http://www.jewishindependent.ca/archives/Aug08/archives08Aug29-05.html

Leonora Crema of UBC Library is featured in an article on distance education in the Ubyssey, UBC’s student newspaper.

The Office of Learning Technology, which is based in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, is also featured.

You can view the article here:

http://www.ubyssey.ca/?p=3942

UBC Library’s free Community Card program, which is part of UBC’s Centenary celebrations, is featured in the Lake Country Calendar.

You can view the article here:

http://www.bclocalnews.com/okanagan_similkameen/lakecountrycalendar/news/28539629.html

The September 2008 issue of UBC Reports features an article on Google and the role of academic libraries and research. The article is followed by an item about UBC Library’s offer of free community borrower cards.

You can view the articles here:

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2008/08sep04/google.html?src=email

A digitization project that is a collaboration between UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections, UBC Archives and the City of Vancouver Archives appears in the Vancouver Sun.

The project is called The Chinese Experience in British Columbia, 1850-1950. It will explore Chinese immigration, work, and social and cultural life in B.C. through the digitization of items from the Chung Collection at UBC (www.library.ubc.ca/chung) and the Yip Sang fonds at the City of Vancouver Archives. Both collections are of national importance.

You can view the article here:

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=1cc8edb8-e0b9-4262-a7f9-0115d2d68250

(Please note that the luxury liner referred to in the article is called the Empress of Asia, not India.)