In honour of Science Literacy Week 2021, explore RBSC’s archives related to British Columbia’s environment.
The RBSC reading room is now open for in-person research. Read more about visiting and UBC’s COVID-19 Campus Rules.
Celebrate International Kelmscott Press Day with a lecture by Dr. Gregory Mackie about William Morris’s influence in Vancouver and the Library’s own Kelmscott Chaucer.
In honour of International Kelmscott Press Day on June 26, 2021, we’re celebrating and reflecting on the acquisition of the UBC Library’s own Kelmscott Chaucer. The poet William Butler Yeats described it as the “most beautiful of all printed books.” Artist and illustrator Edward Burne-Jones likened it to a “pocket cathedral.” At UBC Library’s Rare […]
RBSC archivist Krisztina Laszlo talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected her archival work over the past year and a half.
The finding aid of the recently donated Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection is now available to browse online.
Explore a new online exhibition of photographs from the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs, curated by Young Canada Works (YCW) post-graduate intern Ashlynn Prasad.
With the publication of her new book, “Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948,” Dr. Eva-Marie Kröller reflects on the benefits of cooperation between researchers and attentive archivists.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, join us for another post in a new occasional series exploring cabinet card portraits of women and the jewellery they wore.
Brandon Leung reflects on Jim Wong-Chu’s “Pender East,” and remembers his experience as an undergraduate student meeting the revered writer/editor, photographer, historian, and activist.