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Digitizers’ Blog
New Collection: Images of Natural History Specimens from the Beaty Biodiversity Museum
When the Beaty Biodiversity Museum approached us about digitizing a collection of natural history images, we couldn’t possibly say no. This new digital repository of 848 natural history images was completed in September and is now available to view on Open Collections. The collection includes an array of insect and fish illustrations, as well as […]
Celebrating the Legacy of E. Pauline Johnson – Tekahionwake
If you’re looking for some autumn reading, we suggest delving into the books of legendary poet E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (1861-1913). There are dozens of items connected to Johnson in Open Collections; four are digitized copies of her written works, and several more are ephemera connected to her life and legacy. Johnson was a mixed […]
COVID-19 Web Archiving Collections
This is part of a series on web archiving at the UBC Library. For all posts about web archiving, please see https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/tag/web-archiving/ Since early 2020 the UBC Library has embarked on a project to collect and preserve web content related to the unique local events and impacts surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. From the updates of […]
Explore Open Collections: Halloween Through the Ages
Happy Halloween! To help get ourselves ready for spooky season, we did a digital dive into our holdings looking for all things Halloween. Follow along as we exhibit what we found from across different eras in our digitized periodicals. What can we learn about Halloween? Have traditions changed over time? Don’t forget to click on […]
Dipping into the Hawthorn Fly Fishing and Angling Collection
The Harry Hawthorn Fly Fishing and Angling Collection is approaching 70 years old. It holds more than 2200 books on fishing related subjects, with 63 of them digitized. The collection itself was dreamed up in 1953 by eight UBC professors who were on a fishing trip together at Upper Campbell Lake. They decided to start […]
World Tour in the early 1930s: The Empress of Britain World Cruise
Prior to air travel, cruises used to be one of the more popular ways to travel abroad, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. Launched in 1930, the Royal Mail Ship (R.M.S.) Empress of Britain took around-the-world tours to a whole new level. In the 1930s, the most luxurious world tour package allowed passengers to spend […]
Building Digital Collections in support of Teaching & Learning
~~~ 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. ~~~ In support of the University’s teaching and learning, the Digitization Centre works […]
Exploring Open Collections: Kamishibai Propaganda Plays
The Kamishibai Propaganda Plays are an extremely rare collection of World War II-era propaganda plays from Japan. This digital collection contains 52 Kamishibai plays created between 1938 and 1945, from a private collection of Professor Sharalyn Orbaugh of the UBC Department of Asian Studies. Produced by quasi-governmental organizations and publishers in support of Japanese government […]
Subject Headings in the Rainbow Ranche Collection
We partnered with the Lake Country Museum and Archives to digitize the Rainbow Ranche Collection. It consists of over 1,300 items which include correspondence and financial ledgers, documenting the operation of fruit ranches managed by onsite partner James Goldie in the Okanagan, as well as diary entries and clippings of newspaper articles. To gain a […]
Exploring Vanished Buildings on UBC Vancouver Campus
Since UBC moved to Point Grey in 1925, the University has worked on campus planning. While many new buildings have been constructed, several campus facilities have been demolished, renovated, or absorbed into other buildings for various reasons; for example, to make room for future development and providing better services. If you are interested in discovering […]
