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Hours This Week

RBSC Reading Room Hours of Operation Winter Term II (Jan. – Apr., 2025) Monday-Friday 10:00 am-2:00 pm Closed on weekends and the following statutory holidays: Monday, Feb. 17; Friday, Apr. 18; Monday, Apr. 21 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

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Double Exposure: Missionary Photographs of Meiji-Taisho Japan

By cshriver on March 27, 2017

Join us for “Double Exposure Japan-Canada: Missionary Photographs of Meiji-Taisho Japan,” an exhibition curated by Professor Allen Hockley and Naoko Kato, Japanese Language Librarian.

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The ABCs of RBSC

By cshriver on February 22, 2017

Join RBSC for a new exhibition of historical and modern ABC books: From Apple Pies to Astronauts!

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Jane Austen panel discussion

By cshriver on January 13, 2017

RESCHEDULED: 2017 is the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death. Join us for a panel discussion exploring Jane Austen’s influences and celebrating her legacy.

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Ever Austen

By cshriver on January 4, 2017

RBSC is delighted to announce a new exhibition: “Ever Austen: Literary Timelessness in the Regency Period”

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Holiday hours

By cshriver on December 21, 2016

Happy Holidays! Rare Books and Special Collections will be closed for the holidays from Monday, December 26 through Monday, January 2.

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Remembrance Day speaker series online

By cshriver on December 3, 2016

If you weren’t able to join us for RBSC’s Remembrance Day speaker series, you’re in luck! Thanks to the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, the talks are now available to watch online.

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Remembrance Day Speaker Series and Display

By cshriver on October 26, 2016

Please join us for a series of talks in honour of Remembrance Day, sponsored by Rare Books and Special Collections at UBC Library.

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The “most beautiful of all printed books”

By cshriver on August 26, 2016

It’s been an exciting week here at RBSC! We’ve been celebrating the arrival of a new book to our collection: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, published by William Morris’s Kelmscott Press in 1896. The book, more colloquially known as the “Kelmscott Chaucer,” is one of only 438 copies printed and one of only 48 copies with […]

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Harry’s here!

By cshriver on August 8, 2016

In honour of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Canadian première of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Rare Books and Special Collections was delighted to create a display highlighting some of the unique and remarkable copies of the first Harry Potter story from its children’s literature collection. This four-case display was at the Orpheum Theatre for […]

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Words & Pictures

By cshriver on April 22, 2016

Rare Books and Special Collections is delighted to present a new exhibition: Words & Pictures: Book Illustration in Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards Join us for a special celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Governor General’s (GG) Literary Awards. In honour of this historic occasion, UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections is proud to […]

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