Happy Holidays! Rare Books and Special Collections will be closed for the holidays from Monday, December 27 through Monday, January 3.
While the Chung Collection exhibition room is closed for maintenance, you can enjoy videos on the collection themes and a virtual tour.
The Chung Collection exhibition tells some of the most compelling stories of Canada’s past.
The Chung Collection exhibition room will be temporarily closed from Monday, October 18 through Friday, October 29.
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.