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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Show and tell with the RBSC team, part II

Show and tell with the RBSC team, part II

By cshriver on July 6, 2020

Join the RBSC team for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

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Show and tell with the RBSC team

Show and tell with the RBSC team

By cshriver on June 29, 2020

Join the RBSC team for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

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Five favourite fairy tales, part XII

Five favourite fairy tales, part XII

By cshriver on June 5, 2020

Explore even more fairy tales from RBSC’s collections as selected by students in the course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image”!

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Five favourite fairy tales, part XI

Five favourite fairy tales, part XI

By cshriver on May 29, 2020

Explore even more fairy tales from RBSC’s collections as selected by students in the course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image”!

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Five favourite fairy tales, part X

Five favourite fairy tales, part X

By cshriver on May 22, 2020

Explore even more fairy tales from RBSC’s collections as selected by students in the course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image”!

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Celebrating Nurses and Health Care Professionals at RBSC

Celebrating Nurses and Health Care Professionals at RBSC

By cshriver on May 13, 2020

Explore highlights of our historic documents relating to health care, and particularly on the nursing profession.

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Five favourite fairy tales, part IX

Five favourite fairy tales, part IX

By cshriver on May 8, 2020

Explore even more fairy tales from RBSC’s collections as selected by students in the course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image”!

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Amazing Women: Hanne Wassermann

Amazing Women: Hanne Wassermann

By cshriver on April 24, 2020

Hanne Wassermann Walker’s personal archives is more than the story of one amazing woman — it reveals her connections to several.

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Join RBSC for a “Wild Ride”!

Join RBSC for a “Wild Ride”!

By cshriver on April 22, 2020

See photos and download the catalogue for “The Wild Ride,” a charming student-curated exhibition!

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Five favourite fairy tales, part VIII

Five favourite fairy tales, part VIII

By cshriver on April 17, 2020

Explore more fairy tales from RBSC’s collections as selected by students in the course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image”!

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