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A Tale of Two Feminist Periodicals: Exploring Pedestal and Kinesis through Open Collections
When Pedestal was launched in September 1969 by the Vancouver Women’s Caucus (VWC), it was Canada’s first feminist periodical. VWC emerged from the New Left student-led political movement at Simon Fraser University in the late 60s, a culture that valued direct action, anti-authoritarianism, and social non-conformity and promoted causes like civil rights, Black Power, gay […]
Truth and Reconciliation in the Archives: Representation of Indigenous Stories in Open Collections
TW: Colonization, Residential schools This week Truth and Reconciliation is top of mind, prompting reflection on how Indigenous history, including records about residential schools and Survivors, are represented within Open Collections. BC’s history is a major area of focus for the Digitization Centre, and Open Collections includes a large number of records showcasing this history, […]
New Collection: BC Dairy Historical Society
It’s been a productive year at the Digitization Centre and today we’re honoured to present the BC Dairy Historical Society collection. This digitized collection was compiled by the British Columbia Dairy History Society (BCDHS) to support its mandate to research, document, archive, and publish the history of British Columbia’s dairy industry. The collection includes records […]
Photo Preservation & National Save Your Photos Month!
Did you know that the month of September is National Save Your Photos Month? Since this topic is especially near and dear to our hearts, here are some examples of photo collections we are thankful to have in our collections. Stick around until the end for some tips on how to preserve your own personal […]
Celebrating 300,000 Items in Open Collections!
UBC Open Collections brings together locally created and managed digital content from the library’s open repositories: cIRcle, digitized collections, Explore Archives at UBC and UBC Borealis. The content digitized by us here at the UBC Digitization Centre began as material held at various UBC Library branches including Rare Books and Special Collections, the University Archives, […]
New Collection: The Democrat
This week we are pleased to announce that there is a new collection available on Open Collections! The Democrat was the official publication of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (NDP) from 1961 until 2014. It provided NDP members and other readers with news of party activities, information on a wide range of public policy […]

The UBC Library Digitization Centre embraces new technologies, methods of access, workflows and preservation strategies while building sustainable digital collections to support and enrich the educational, cultural and economic endeavors of the University, the people of British Columbia and communities beyond.