How do you map diseases? A look into the world of GIScience and medical geography with Emily Acheson
The talk on January 23 is the second in our Visualizing the World: A Maps and Geographic Information Systems Speaker Series.
24/7 hours at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s 24/7 hours begin Sunday, December 3 (opening at 6 a.m.) and end Tuesday, December 19 (closing at 1 a.m.).
Colbeck Collection exhibition: An Unmatched Devotion
Rare Books and Special Collections at UBC Library is delighted to announce a new exhibition: “An Unmatched Devotion”: A 50th Anniversary Exhibition for UBC’s Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres.
Drawing a continent by hand with Anton Thomas
The talk on October 26 is the first in our Visualizing the World: A Maps and Geographic Information Systems Speaker Series
MexicoFest: Magic Hands
Presented by MexicoFest, we invite all art enthusiasts to attend this free exhibition at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on Mexican Popular Art objects from September 1 to October 12, 2017.
Aboriginal (Un)History Month 2017
The fifth annual Aboriginal (Un)History Month exhibit is now on display at UBC Library’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Across the nation June is recognized as Aboriginal History Month, but the tradition of (Un)History Month is a celebration and acknowledgement of the importance of Indigenous Peoples – not only in history – but in the […]
Traces of Words exhibit
May 1 – 31, 2017
Open Scholarly Practice
“Open scholarship, which encompasses open access, open data, open educational resources, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, is changing how knowledge is created and shared.” Association of Research Libraries Open Scholarship In this session, we’ll explore ideas of scholarly practice in the digital age and how they can inform […]
Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society
Acknowledgement: The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is pleased to contribute to the promotion of this unique opportunity. We acknowledge the Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society’s website as the source for most of this content. The Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society is an enterprising non-profit organization that develops and delivers transformative education inspired by Haida […]
CANADA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS: The Alcuin Society’s 2015 Winners
Every Spring since 1981, Vancouver’s Alcuin Society holds a national competition to select the country’s most beautiful books of the previous year. The winning books tour every province in Canada, and are also exhibited at the two major book fairs in Germany, in Frankfurt and Leipzig. As well, copies are donated to the Canadian Embassy […]