A Bowen Island project that is part of the B.C. History Digitization Program – an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – is featured in the Bowen Island Undercurrent.
You can view the article here:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/greater_vancouver/bowenislandundercurrent/community/26393124.html
Fans of ephemeral literature are invited to visit a campus display of 19th-century English chapbooks at UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC).
Chapbooks are booklets that were popular in rural areas and towns from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and ranged from jestbooks to histories of depraved criminals, medieval romances to song verses. Chapbooks are extremely delicate, and many are illustrated with luridly coloured woodcuts.
This exhibition, created by UBC English Master’s student Catherine Whitehead, runs to the end of September. RBSC contains more than 300 chapbooks, many of which are part of the Arkley Collection of Early & Historical Children’s Literature.
RBSC is located on the first level of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall.
A Tumbler Ridge project that is part of the B.C. History Digitization Program – an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – is featured in the Tumbler Ridge News.
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Two Prince George projects are among the recipients of funding from the B.C. History Digitization Program from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, for carrying out the process of putting historical images and information online.
Read more about it here:
http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20080723142683/local/news/digital-archive-funding-awarded.html
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: