By sromkey on August 3, 2012
A reminder that Rare Books and Special Collections, University Archives and the Chung Collection will be closed on Monday August 6th for B.C. Day, along with all other branches of UBC Library. If you will be spending your long weekend watching the Olympic games, you might be interested to know that Rare Books and Special […]
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By sromkey on July 31, 2012
Archivists note: This week our student archivists are going to explain how taxonomies, which is like “tagging” only slightly more sophisticated, is helping them draw out important connections in the Douglas Coupland fonds. It does make me reflect on how the technology we use to catalogue (or arrange and describe, in archives jargon) can affect […]
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By sromkey on July 27, 2012
Rare Books and Special Collections, which includes the Chung Collection exhibition room, is temporarily reducing its opening hours to 10 am to 4 pm, for the period July 30 to August 31.
We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause. Please feel free to email us at chung.collection@ubc.ca with any questions or concerns.
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By sromkey on July 25, 2012
Archivist’s note: When you tell people you’re an archivist, they often assume that we spend a lot of time meticulously re-organizing documents into some kind of “correct” order. This is a misconception- as our student archivists will describe below, maintaining original order is actually an important tenet of archival theory and practice. Here are Dan, […]
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By sromkey on July 18, 2012
We’re very pleased to announce a recent addition (or accrual to use archival language) to the archives of Douglas Coupland (or the Douglas Coupland fonds, again to use the archival terminology). We have been very fortunate to continue our relationship with Doug Coupland since we first acquired his archives in 2008, but for the first […]
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By sromkey on July 13, 2012
This October, Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press is publishing a graphic novel called Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America by David H.T. Wong. From the APP catalogue:
“The history of Chinese immigration to Canada and the US over the past 100-plus years has been fraught with sadness and indignity; newcomers to North America encountered discrimination, subjugation, and separation from loved ones…Escape to Gold Mountain is the first graphic novel to tell their story: based on historical documents and interviews with elders, this is a vivid history of the Chinese in their search for “Gold Mountain” (the Chinese colloquialism for North America) as seen through the eyes of the Wong family. They traverse the challenges of eking out an existence in their adopted homeland with hope and determination, creating a poignant immigrant’s legacy for their sons and daughters.”
Suggested for readers 12 and up, this sounds like an entertaining and educational read for any age! We will certainly be adding a copy of this publication to the Chung Collection when it is released.
Rare Books and Special Collections (where the Chung Collection is located) also happens to house the archives of Arsenal Pulp Press.
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By sromkey on July 4, 2012
This post is part of our series on resources featuring the names of B.C. places used as room names in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The place we would like to feature for this post is Bamfield, a community on the coast of Barkley Sound on Vancouver Island, and well known for the Bamfield […]
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By sromkey on July 3, 2012
The Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouver is organizing a photo exhibition to document Chinese Canadians from 1952 to 2012, to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee. They are looking for photographs that document the sucess stories, life or work of any Chinese Canadian during this time period. The deadline for submissions is July 18th at 5 pm, and the exhibition will be held from August 4 through August 19th.
Get in touch with the Chinese Cultural Centre through their contact page for more information and a registration form!
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By sromkey on June 29, 2012
A reminder that like all UBC Library branches, Rare Books and Special Collections, University Archives and the Chung Collection will be closed in lieu of Canada Day on Monday July 2. We will resume normal hours on Tuesday July 3. The photograph above is attributed to Phillip Timms and probably was taken near the turn […]
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By sromkey on June 28, 2012
It is finally starting to feel a little like summer in Vancouver- we hope you have been enjoying yourselves! Our featured photograph this month is a lovely summer scene:
This young bather is enjoying the lake near Silver Island, Ontario in July of 1921. The photo is from an album of photographs taken by a traveller on the Canadian Pacific Railway and steamships. We would guess that Helen Pearson, as captioned in the album, was a family member or neighbour of the photographer who seems to have had a summer home on Silver Island (south of Sudbury).
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