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Hours of Operation

To request RBSC or UA materials to consult in the Reading Room, please schedule an appointment at least 24 hours in advance during weekday business hours.

Summer terms (May – Aug., 2026)

Monday-Friday

10:00 am-2:00 pm

Closed on weekends and the following statutory holidays: Monday, May 18; Wednesday, July 1; Monday, August 3

source: https://wiki.ubc.ca/Library:RBSC_Hours

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Chapbooks

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Rare Chapbooks Featured in Exhibition

By kalsbeek on July 24, 2008

An exhibition of nineteenth-century English chapbooks is currently on display at UBC’s Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC). Chapbooks are booklets that were popular in rural areas and towns from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Literature of this sort was a miscellany, spanning jestbooks to histories of depraved criminals, medieval romances to song verses. […]

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