The Open Collections cover a wide range of topics and disciplines where you can find materials to support your research, teaching, and even hobbies. In this post, we select some of our collections that are related to Canadian literature.
Books
BC Historical Books
The goal of the BC Historical Books project is to build a single searchable database of the bibliography of British Columbia based on full-text searchable versions of the books contained therein. The result will allow scholars, students and the public unparalleled access to knowledge about our province.
The following is useful subject headings related to Canadian literature:
Related genres include:
Rural rhymes and the sheep thief, 1896
Snap: a legend of the lone mountain: with thirteen illustrations, 1890
Snap: a legend of the lone mountain: with thirteen illustrations, 1890, pp.94-95
Periodicals
UBC Library has a significant collection of small press literary magazines, most of which are held in Rare Books and Special Collections. These magazines published experimental and non-mainstream writings produced by relatively unknown authors. Some of these materials have been digitized and are available in the Open Collections.
PRISM international
PRISM international (1959 -) is a quarterly magazine out of Vancouver, British Columbia, whose mandate is to publish the best in contemporary writing and translation from Canada and around the world. Writing from PRISM has been featured in Best American Stories, Best American Essays and The Journey Prize Stories, amongst other noted publications.
Through a partnership with the UBC Creative Writing Department, UBC Library digitized all back-issues of PRISM in 2015. The full archive is available in Open Collections. To learn more about this collection, please check out this previous post.
PRISM also published a Cumulative Index Volume at their 25th anniversary, which lists all writings (through 1984) in alphabetical order by author.
Prism international, Oct 31, 1960
Prism international Cumulative Index Volume, 1 – 22, 1959 – 1984
The resources mentioned above all support full-text search. You may also be interested in this research guide: Special Collections: Canadian Literature.
