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Hours This Week

RBSC Reading Room Hours of Operation Winter Term I (Sept. – Dec., 2024) Monday-Friday 10:00 am-2:00 pm Closed on weekends and the following statutory holidays: Monday, Sept. 2; Monday, Sept. 30; Monday, Oct. 14; Monday, Nov. 11; Wednesday, Dec. 25; Thursday, Dec. 26 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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Frontpage Exhibition

Scanned book cover of Tr’ëhuhch’in Näwtr’udäh’ą: Finding Our Way Home, compiled by Chris Clarke and Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in survivors.

Commemorating Orange Shirt Day/National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, September 30th 2024

By ewith017 on October 3, 2024

Each year on September 30, people across Canada wear orange to recognize, commemorate, and raise awareness about the history and ongoing legacies of the Indian Residential School system (IRSS). Here at the Chung | Lind Gallery, we are commemorating the day with this blog post by Gallery Attendant and Exhibitions Assistant, Emily Witherow, which introduces […]

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What’s That Number?

By Claire Malek on May 14, 2024

Guest blogger Lily Liu talks about a mysterious numbering system she encountered while working on the Lock Tin Lee fonds.

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Visit the new Chung | Lind Gallery

By cshriver on May 8, 2024

The new gallery space on level 2 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is free and open to the public.

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All About Oscar

By cshriver on April 30, 2024

Join us for a display of photographs from the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs in Ike’s Café (Irving K. Barber Learning Centre) this spring!

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Lowry Manuscripts (Re)Launch

By cshriver on January 3, 2024

Guest blogger Malcolm Fish talks about his work restructuring and updating the inventory for the newly relaunched Malcolm Lowry Manuscripts Collection.

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Langmann Collection selections

By cshriver on October 4, 2023

Enjoy a collaborative exhibition of photographs from the Uno Langmann Family Collection of British Columbia Photographs at various UBC Library branches this fall!

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Highlighting student work

By cshriver on September 18, 2023

See which RBSC items students from Langara College selected to explore the geography of British Columbia during a summer class.

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Lessons from the Archives Collective

By cshriver on September 1, 2023

Guest blogger Matthew White explores queer political resistance in the 1970s and 1980s through the Archives Collective collection.

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Chung Translation Project: Chinese Miners in BC

By Claire Malek on August 15, 2023

The report starkly demonstrates the living conditions of the Chinese people at this time. In an environment of discrimination, they did the most dangerous jobs, and were rewarded with the lowest pay.

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