By sromkey on February 15, 2010
The Chung Collection has been featured over the years by several B.C. newspapers, usually in the arts or culture section. This morning it graces the front page of the Vancouver Sun’s business section, where Joanne Lee-Young uses the collection to highlight B.C.’s longstanding economic ties with Asia. She writes, “B.C. may promote its Asia Pacific […]
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By kalsbeek on July 10, 2006
Rare Books and Special Collections, and University Archives, at UBC Library are pleased to announce the launch of a newly digitized collection: “Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era”, at http://angel.library.ubc.ca/tokugawa/. UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections holds one of the world’s largest collections of maps and guidebooks of the Japanese Edo period, also called […]
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By kalsbeek on March 14, 2005
The revision of the “Manuscript” section of the Rare Books and Special Collections website is now complete. Where previously there was only a general description of the collection there is now a general or detailed description and an inventory. In total there are 433 inventories for RBSC manuscript collections accessible online in PDF format. Please […]
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By kalsbeek on July 8, 2004
For a short overview of the Rare Books and Special Collection’s collection policy, click here. For a detailed description of RBSC’s print and archival collections, see UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections General Guidelines for Collecting and List of Major Collections Print and Archival, click here (note: this is a Microsoft Word document).
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