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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Frontpage Exhibition

Summers past

Summers past

By cshriver on August 19, 2020

As the summer of 2020 winds down, we look to memories of past summers from our collections.

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Personal library/archives show and tell (VI)

Personal library/archives show and tell (VI)

By cshriver on August 4, 2020

Join the RBSC team and our colleagues from UBC Library for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

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Personal library/archives show and tell (V)

Personal library/archives show and tell (V)

By cshriver on July 27, 2020

Join the RBSC team and our colleagues from UBC Library for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

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Personal library/archives show and tell (IV)

Personal library/archives show and tell (IV)

By cshriver on July 20, 2020

Join the RBSC team and our colleagues from UBC Library for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

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Personal library/archives show and tell (III)

Personal library/archives show and tell (III)

By cshriver on July 13, 2020

Join the RBSC team and our colleagues from UBC Library for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

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Show and tell with the RBSC team, part II

Show and tell with the RBSC team, part II

By cshriver on July 6, 2020

Join the RBSC team for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

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Show and tell with the RBSC team

Show and tell with the RBSC team

By cshriver on June 29, 2020

Join the RBSC team for a virtual show and tell of selections from our personal archives and libraries!

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Five favourite fairy tales, part XII

Five favourite fairy tales, part XII

By cshriver on June 5, 2020

Explore even more fairy tales from RBSC’s collections as selected by students in the course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image”!

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Five favourite fairy tales, part XI

Five favourite fairy tales, part XI

By cshriver on May 29, 2020

Explore even more fairy tales from RBSC’s collections as selected by students in the course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image”!

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Five favourite fairy tales, part X

Five favourite fairy tales, part X

By cshriver on May 22, 2020

Explore even more fairy tales from RBSC’s collections as selected by students in the course “The Victorian Fairy Tale: Text and Image”!

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