Hours This Week

RBSC Reading Room

Hours of Operation

Term 2 of Winter Session 2023/24 (Jan. – Apr., 2024)

Monday-Friday

10:00 am-2:00 pm

Closed on weekends and the following statutory holidays: Monday, February 19; Friday, March 29; Monday, April 1; Thursday, April 18-Friday, April 19

We recommend that you request materials in advance to make your visit more efficient and to ensure materials are available.

The Rare Books and Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room has been temporarily relocated to Irving K. Barber Learning Centre room 142 due to upgrades.

source: https://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:RBSC_Hours

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
1961 East Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1

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Dr. Chung on model ship restoration, and the importance of hobbies

By sromkey on April 5, 2011

Click here to read an article in the Spring 2011 Montecristo Magazine in which Dr. Chung talks about the importance of having a hobby:

“Everyone should develop an extra interest outside of their profession. This helps not only to reduce stress but [there is also] the joy of finding something you have been looking for, for years.”

He also speaks in the article to the experience of restoring model ships, of which there are two on display: the Empress of Asia here at UBC, and the Empress of Japan at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Montecristo is a Vancouver-based lifestyle and culture magazine.

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Featured place: Kootenay River

By kalsbeek on April 5, 2011

The Kootenay River Room, a large, bright and airy group study room (room 422) on the 4th floor of the Barber Centre, is named after the Kootenay River, one of the tributaries of the Columbia River. It is a major river that runs through southeastern British Columbia, Canada and the northern part of Montana and […]

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