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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Student project: Shakespeare’s second folio

Student project: Shakespeare’s second folio

By cshriver on April 20, 2018

Explore student projects using RBSC materials from this past semester!

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Once Upon a Pop-up

Once Upon a Pop-up

By cshriver on April 17, 2018

Join us for a student-curated exhibition: Once Upon a Pop-up!

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Image from Wither's Emblemes

Student project: Wither’s “Emblemes”

By cshriver on April 11, 2018

Explore student projects using RBSC materials from this past semester!

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What’s Old Is New Again!

What’s Old Is New Again!

By cshriver on February 2, 2018

RBSC presents What’s Old Is New Again: An Exhibition of RBSC Acquisition Highlights for 2017.

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Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs

Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs

By cshriver on November 8, 2017

Library student Ashlynn Prasad talks about curating an exhibition featuring the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs.

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Colbeck Collection exhibition: An Unmatched Devotion

Colbeck Collection exhibition: An Unmatched Devotion

By cshriver on October 19, 2017

RBSC celebrates the Colbeck Collection with a new exhibition: “An Unmatched Devotion”

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Celebrating the Colbeck Collection

Celebrating the Colbeck Collection

By cshriver on September 27, 2017

Join us for a symposium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Library’s acquisition of the Norman Colbeck Collection.

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The diary of Hector Langevin

The diary of Hector Langevin

By cshriver on August 3, 2017

The diary of Hector Langevin, Minister of Public Works from 1869–1873, is one of the highlights of the Chung Collection, and you can read it online.

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Harry Potter at the VSO (now RBSC)

Harry Potter at the VSO (now RBSC)

By cshriver on July 27, 2017

A Harry Potter display created for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is now at RBSC.

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RBSC closed on July 26

RBSC closed on July 26

By cshriver on July 20, 2017

The Rare Books and Special Collections reading room will be closed on Wednesday, July 26, for staff training.

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