Electronic collections featuring community newspapers, B.C. history, fossil specimens, medical artifacts and works by renowned wildlife artist Robert Bateman will all be a mouse click away, thanks to a community initiative from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia.
Read more in UBC Public Affairs here:
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/media/releases/2008/mr-08-097.html
An article on a White Rock project that is part of the B.C. History Digitization Program, a Learning Center initiative, was recently featured in the Peace Arch News.
You can view the article here:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/peacearchnews/entertainment/22739504.html
Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien was born in Vancouver, BC, the youngest of three children of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants. Her first work of fiction, Simple Recipes, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2001 and was named a Kiriyama Prize notable book. That same year she published a children’s book, The Chinese Violin, based on the true story of a young girl who emigrated from China with her father. Certainty, Thien’s first novel, was named a Kiriyama Prize finalist in the spring of 2007, just before it was published in the United States. Thien has also received the Canadian Author’s Association/Air Canada Award for the most promising writer under the age of 30.
Madeleine Thien read at the Lillooet Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on Thursday July 17th, 2008.
Image Credit: Eden Robinson
Eden Robinson is the author of two best-selling novels, Monkey Beach, winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and a finalist for the 2000 Giller Prize, and Blood Sports. Her collection of stories, Traplines, was awarded the Winifred Holtby Prize and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a Notable Book of the Year. Robinson is a Hailsa Woman who was raised and now lives in Kitimat Village, British Columbia.
Eden had read at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Lillooet Room, 301 on Thursday June 19th, 2008, 1:00PM-2:00PM.
The $79.7-million Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, a gateway to UBC Library’s collection of 10 million items, archives and exhibits, recently opened roughly 250,000 square feet of new and renovated space. One of the first in Canada to combine information resources with tech-savvy meeting spaces, the Barber is expected to be a hub of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Read more about this from Arts Beat.
Canada’s First National Book-Collecting Contest
Launch date: 4th June 2008, Wednesday, 12:30 to 1:30pm
Location: University of British Columbia, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre,
Level 1, (In front of Rare Books & Special Collections).
Contact: John Meier, (604) 943-6940, johnmeier@telus.net
The Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC), the Antiquarian Booksellers of
Association of Canada (ABAC) and the Alcuin Society are pleased to announce
the launch of Canada’s First National Book-Collecting Contest for Canadian’s
under thirty. This is the first project to bring all three of these book
organizations together. There are three categories of cash prizes:
First Prize $2,500; Second Prize $1,000; Third Prize $300. Full contest
rules will be located at the following websites after the launch:
Please view the announcement below for an update on a Saanich Archives digitization project. This project is supported by the BC History Digitization Program, which was launched by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in 2006.
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 30, 2008
**Saanich Archives Now Online**
Saanich Archives is pleased to announce that over 2,500 archival photographs are now available online at http://saanicharchives.ca. The digitization project was made possible through generous funding from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC and the Municipality of Saanich.
Photographs of early pioneer life, cultural events, architecture, farming and the growth of the community can now be searched by keyword, subject and local area of Saanich. The images, selected from a collection of 15,000 photographs, slides, negatives and albums, have rarely been viewed by the public. They are now freely available via the Internet.
Saanich Archives collects and preserves archival material relating to the Municipality of Saanich and invites visitors to explore Saanich’s rich history online or in person. The collection includes photographs, maps, documents, oral histories, books and reference material from the earliest days of the municipality to recent times.
Saanich Archives is located in the Saanich Centennial Library at 3100 Tillicum Road and is open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For further information, please call 250-475-1775 or visit our website at http://saanicharchives.ca.
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For more information please contact:
Caroline Duncan
Saanich Municipal Archives
3100 Tillicum Road
Victoria BC V9A 6T2
Tel: (250) 475-1775 ext.3478
Fax: (250) 388-7819
e-mail: duncanc@saanich.ca
website: http://saanicharchives.cahttp://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/ps/BCDigitInfo.html
An article on the grand opening of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre recently appeared in The Asian Pacific Post.
You can view the article here:
http://www.asianpacificpost.com/portal2/c1ee8c44195e35b801195e66c727004d_UBC_opens__80_M_modern_learning_centre.do.html
An article on a project to digitize archives of the Nechako Chronicle recently appeared in the Vanderhoof Omineca Express. This project was funded as part of the BC History Digitization Program, which was launched by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
You can view the article here:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/ominecaexpress/news/17675924.html
A project that is part of the B.C. History Digitization Program – which was launched by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – is featured in a recent issue of The Vancouver Courier.
You can view the article here:
http://www.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=358d391a-0421-46b4-8d7a-bd116a41900f&k=18305