Tag Archives: UBC

University of British Columbia creates online guide to Chinese-Canadian materials

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Gail Dever

One of the projects by staff at UBC Rare Books and Special Collections during the COVID-19 shut-down of on-campus operations was to develop a new online guide to Chinese-Canadian materials in their collections. One of the subjects being researched for this project was the … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — August 3, 2019

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsExplore Open Collections: BC Historical Documents by Risa Hatanaka on UBC Library Bloggers. More than 100 years of BC’s provincial governmental papers now accessible online by Michelle Blackwell on UBC Library Bloggers. … Continue reading →

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Antique dealer donates more historic photos to UBC

Posted on July 19, 2019 by Gail Dever

Five years ago, Uno Langmann, an art and antique dealer in Vancouver, and his wife, Dianne Langmann, donated 18,000 historic photos of British Columbia, worth $1.2 million, to the University of BC (UBC) Library. Now, he has donated another 2,500. At the … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — June 8, 2019

Posted on June 8, 2019 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Oldest photos in Open Collections by Risa Hatanaka on UBC Digitization Centre. French-Canadian “dit names” and nicknames by François Desjardins on Généalogie et histoire du Québec. The Revision Books at PRONI by Donna … Continue reading →

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