Hours This Week

RBSC Reading Room

Hours of Operation

Summer Session (May – Aug., 2024)

Monday-Friday

10:00 am-2:00 pm

Closed on weekends and the following statutory holidays: Monday, May 20; Monday, July 1; Monday, August 5

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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Research and learning

Five favourite fairy tales, part V

Five favourite fairy tales, part V

By cshriver on April 6, 2020

Explore 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 IV

Five favourite fairy tales, part IV

By cshriver on April 3, 2020

Explore 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 III

Five favourite fairy tales, part III

By cshriver on April 1, 2020

Explore 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 II

Five favourite fairy tales, part II

By cshriver on March 30, 2020

Explore 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 I

Five favourite fairy tales, part I

By cshriver on March 23, 2020

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

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Fashioning the Landscape

Fashioning the Landscape

By cshriver on December 5, 2019

A new exhibition exploring women’s interwar sportswear at the Canadian Pacific Railway Resorts.

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“They also serve:” Honouring Alexis Alvey

“They also serve:” Honouring Alexis Alvey

By cshriver on November 7, 2019

This Remembrance Day, we honour A. Alexis Alvey and the navy’s first female service members.

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An Ocean of Knowledge, a Sea of Books

An Ocean of Knowledge, a Sea of Books

By cshriver on October 24, 2019

Discover books related to ocean science from the W.C. Gibson History of Science and Medicine Collection.

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Chung Collection honoured as part of the “Memory of the World”

Chung Collection honoured as part of the “Memory of the World”

By cshriver on September 13, 2019

The Chung Collection has been added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the World Register.

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A Queer Century, 1869-1969

A Queer Century, 1869-1969

By cshriver on May 27, 2019

The exhibition “A Queer Century, 1869-1969” has been extended through September 11, 2019.

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