Research and learning

And there’s the humor of it…

And there’s the humor of it…

Join RBSC and Woodward Library for the new exhibition: “And there’s the humor of it”: Shakespeare and the Four Humors.

Student project: The Works of Ambroise Paré

Student project: The Works of Ambroise Paré

Explore student projects using RBSC materials from this past semester!

New acquisition of WWII Japanese Canadian letters

New acquisition of WWII Japanese Canadian letters

The letters provide unique insight into the devastating effects of the Japanese Canadian internment during World War II.

Student project: Shakespeare’s second folio

Student project: Shakespeare’s second folio

Explore student projects using RBSC materials from this past semester!

Image from Wither's Emblemes

Student project: Wither’s “Emblemes”

Explore student projects using RBSC materials from this past semester!

Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs

Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs

Library student Ashlynn Prasad talks about curating an exhibition featuring the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs.

Celebrating the Colbeck Collection

Celebrating the Colbeck Collection

Join us for a symposium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Library’s acquisition of the Norman Colbeck Collection.

Double Exposure: Missionary Photographs of Meiji-Taisho Japan

Double Exposure: Missionary Photographs of Meiji-Taisho Japan

Join us for “Double Exposure Japan-Canada: Missionary Photographs of Meiji-Taisho Japan,” an exhibition curated by Professor Allen Hockley and Naoko Kato, Japanese Language Librarian.

Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna

Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna

Rare Books and Special Collections is delighted to host a new exhibition: Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna: Writing Hybridity on the Cusp of the 20th Century.

In the presence of far-away things: Charlotte Brontë’s Bicentennial

In the presence of far-away things: Charlotte Brontë’s Bicentennial

Many thanks to guest blogger Paige Hohmann, a graduate student at UBC’s School School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, for contributing the below post! “Time is the longest distance between two places.” – Tennessee Williams This week marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë on April 21, 1816, and as writer […]