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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.

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Research and learning

International Kelmscott Press Day

By cshriver on June 25, 2021

Celebrate International Kelmscott Press Day with a lecture by Dr. Gregory Mackie about William Morris’s influence in Vancouver and the Library’s own Kelmscott Chaucer.

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Celebrating UBC’s Kelmscott Chaucer on International Kelmscott Press Day

By cshriver on June 25, 2021

In honour of International Kelmscott Press Day on June 26, 2021, we’re celebrating and reflecting on the acquisition of the UBC Library’s own Kelmscott Chaucer. The poet William Butler Yeats described it as the “most beautiful of all printed books.” Artist and illustrator Edward Burne-Jones likened it to a “pocket cathedral.” At UBC Library’s Rare […]

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Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection

By cshriver on May 11, 2021

The finding aid of the recently donated Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush Collection is now available to browse online.

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And They Called It Vancouver

By cshriver on April 6, 2021

Explore a new online exhibition of photographs from the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs, curated by Young Canada Works (YCW) post-graduate intern Ashlynn Prasad.

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Archival Collaborations

By cshriver on March 22, 2021

With the publication of her new book, “Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948,” Dr. Eva-Marie Kröller reflects on the benefits of cooperation between researchers and attentive archivists.

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Framing memory

By cshriver on March 8, 2021

To celebrate International Women’s Day, join us for another post in a new occasional series exploring cabinet card portraits of women and the jewellery they wore.

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Remembering Jim Wong-Chu

By cshriver on January 29, 2021

Brandon Leung reflects on Jim Wong-Chu’s “Pender East,” and remembers his experience as an undergraduate student meeting the revered writer/editor, photographer, historian, and activist.

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