August 25, 2008
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is featured in Innovation, the magazine from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C.
The Learning Centre is part of the 2007/2008 Project Highlights pictorial, and is featured on page 41. You can view a PDF of Innovation magazine here:
http://www.apeg.bc.ca/resource/innovation/archive/2008/2008julaug.pdf
August 20, 2008
A Vanderhoof project that is part of the B.C. History Digitization Program – an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – is featured in the Omineca Express.
You can view the article here:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/ominecaexpress/community/27110314.html
August 18, 2008
The City of Surrey Archives on 56 Avenue and 176A Street is digitizing thousands of old black-and-white negative photographs donated by The Leader in 1992. Some were used in the newspaper, but most have never been seen by the public. This is the biggest digitization project the archives has ever undertaken, and the first time they have scanned negatives.
A feature on a Surrey project that is part of the B.C. History Digitization Program – an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – appears in the Surrey Leader. You can view the article here:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/surreyleader/news/Scanning_the_past.html
August 18, 2008
A Surrey project that is part of the B.C. History Digitization Program – an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – is featured in the Surrey Leader.
You can view the article here:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/surreyleader/news/Scanning_the_past.html
August 8, 2008
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
August 6, 2008
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.
August 5, 2008
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.
You can view the article here:
July 24, 2008
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
July 23, 2008
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
July 23, 2008
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