Drippytown – a fascinating exhibit featuring the work of six local comic artists that is on display in Rare Books and Special Collections – is reviewed in The Ubyssey, UBC’s student newspaper.

You can read the article here: http://ubyssey.ca/culture/?p=10845

Drippytown runs until January 31, 2010. Rare Books and Special Collections is located on level one of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall, UBC Vancouver campus.

The latest issue of the BCLA Browser, the publication of the British Columbia Library Association, includes an article on the recent m-Libraries Conference held at UBC.

You can view the article at m-Libraries

And you can view the entire issue at http://bclabrowser.ca/

The Chinese Experience in B.C. website, a project involving UBC Library and the City of Vancouver Archives, is featured in the Vancouver Courier.

You can view the article here: http://www2.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=bb4b8c74-b4d2-496e-b1c2-f556cba832fb

An article about a unique collection focused on croquet, which has been donated to UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections division, appears in the UK publication Croquet World Online.

You can view the article here: http://www.croquetworld.com/News/finding.asp

Rare Books and Special Collections is located on level one of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

An article on cIRcle and its Olympic aspirations appears in Game Time, the e-newsletter of the UBC 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Secretariat.

cIRcle is UBC’s institutional repository, developed by UBC Library. 

You can view the article here: http://www.webcommunications.ubc.ca/ubc2010/2009/10/22/ubc-and-the-winter-games-come-full-circle/

UBC’s participation in the First International Open Access Week, which takes place on campus from October 20 to October 22, is highlighted in the latest issue of e-Strategy, the newsletter from UBC IT.

Open access (OA) is about access to information and knowledge for all. It is a growing international movement that encourages the unrestricted sharing of research that is typically taxpayer-funded.

You can find out more in the e-Strategy article: http://update.estrategy.ubc.ca/2009/10/14/open-access-at-the-ubc-library

The Chinese Experience in British Columbia, a new website that offers a fascinating look at a century of local Chinese-Canadian heritage, is featured in the Vancouver Observer.

The site, which features digitized holdings from the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection at UBC, and the Yip family and Yip Sang Company collection at the City of Vancouver Archives, can be viewed at www.library.ubc.ca/chineseinbc.

 You can view the Observer article here: http://www.vancouverobserver.com/city/2009/10/14/new-site-promotes-chinese-canadian-heritage

The B.C. History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, is in the October 2009 issue of UBC Reports.

You can view the article here: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2009/10/01/sharing-island-treasures/

A story about a digitization project supported by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre appears in the Cariboo Observer. The project involves the digitization of community newspapers, and also was supported by the Observer, the City of Quesnel and the Friends of Quesnel Museum.

You can view the story here: http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_cariboo/quesnelobserver/news/63187607.html

Joy Kirchner, the Librarian for Collections, Licenses and Digital Scholarship at UBC Library, has published an article in a special issue of Research Library Issues from the Association of Research Libraries.

You can view the article – entitled “Scholarly Communications: Planning for the Integration of Liaison Librarian Roles” – and other related pieces here: http://www.arl.org/news/pr/rli265pr.shtml