As spring blossoms across Vancouver, UBC’s Seed Lending Libraries offer more than just a chance to grow your own garden—they’re part of a growing movement of sustainable gardening and community-driven ...
When UBC University Librarian Susan Parker opened a package from Canada Post in January, she wasn’t expecting to find a book that had been checked out before The Beatles became famous. “Most people ...
For six decades, UBC graduate Robert Murray (class of 1963) treasured a small, hardbound 1931 edition of Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and Travellers in the Wilderness, by ...
An Edgewood, B.C., man is being commended for his thoughtful maintenance of a library book that he returned to the University of B.C. this January — nearly 65 years after he took it out. Robert Murray ...
1:51 Overdue library book returned to UBC after 64 years Almost everyone has hung onto a library book a little bit too long, but how many of us can measure that infraction in decades? Robert Murray ...
An LGBT volunteer-run library collection that began in Vancouver in 1983 has found a new home at the University of British Columbia’s West Point Grey campus. Out on the Shelves, which opened to the ...
A Vancouver UBC student is spearheading an initiative to create a Black library she hopes will become a community hub. Maya Preshyon said she was inspired to create the facility after realizing ...
For more than a century, the Dewey Decimal Classification system has dictated the way libraries organize their collections. And the way they organize and sort information says a lot about what kind of ...