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Small Business Week 2017

Posted on Oct 18, 2017 by irena trebic
As the days get shorter, we celebrate Small Business Week 2017 with our partners at the Small Business Accelerator Program. The Small Business Accelerator offers free online access to reliable business information and tools for secondary market research for BC businesses and entrepreneurs. This initiative is led by UBC Library’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. To […]


Faculty and Staff picks

Posted on Oct 10, 2017 by irena trebic
Ever wonder what your favorite prof is reading? Check out our new faculty and staff picks display at the David Lam Library! You will find titles such as Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works (recommended by Prof. Darren Dahl); The Selfish Gene (recommended by Prof. Kin Lo);  The Life You Can Save: How to […]


Commercial brewing in B.C.

Posted on Sep 25, 2017 by irena trebic
Curious about commercial brewing in B.C .?  BC historian, Greg Evans, used  UBC Library’s B.C. Digital newspapers archive to research and write his two-volume history of the commercial brewing industry in British Columbia. Evans’ work involved researching the 163 newspapers currently available through the archive for mentions of beer, brewing and pivotal figures within the industry in articles […]


Survey – Help UBC Library support your venture!

Posted on Sep 22, 2017 by irena trebic
Call for British Columbia participants in UBC Library entrepreneurship research habits and information needs study! Are you enrolled in an entrepreneurship course or program in BC? Launching or preparing to launch a business venture in BC? A member of a BC accelerator? Working to commercialize or translate your UBC research? If so, UBC Library invites you to […]


Ethics Defined video series

Posted on Sep 13, 2017 by irena trebic
Are you interested in learning more about ethics? Check out Ethics Unwrapped, a free collection of 4 online video series produced by the Center for Leadership and Ethics at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. You can view videos on topics such as Sustainability, Conformity Bias, Corporate Social Responsibility, Groupthink, and […]


TEC Expo 2017

Posted on Jul 06, 2017 by irena trebic
We invite you to join us for the fourth annual TecExpo 2017 to learn about new and emerging ways of teaching and learning which will be taking place on July 12th and 13th in the Scarfe building foyer at 2125 Main Mall. The Technology Enhanced Classroom (TEC) Expo showcases creative and innovative uses of technology […]


Harry Potter at UBC Library

Posted on Jun 26, 2017 by irena trebic
It’s the 20th birthday of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the book that started both a literary phenomenon and pop culture tidal wave. In 2015, UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections began acquiring complete sets of first editions of the Harry Potter series. Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) houses significant collections of rare […]


Aboriginal UnHistory Month exhibit

Posted on Jun 16, 2017 by irena trebic
The fifth annual Aboriginal UnHistory Month exhibit is now on display on Level 2 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The exhibit discusses the issue of Canada’s 150 and what it means to Indigenous peoples with the theme “Whose 150?” Partners include the Musqueam First Nation, the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, the Museum […]


New Open Access journal supports students from diverse language backgrounds

Posted on Jun 13, 2017 by irena trebic
BC teachers and researchers working with students speaking English as an additional language will benefit from a new journal created by the Association of British Columbia teachers of English as an additional language (BC TEAL). The journal is hosted on the Okanagan campus Library’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. The journal’s website is:  http://ejournals.ok.ubc.ca/index.php/BCTJ With […]


Business Market Research Collection

Posted on May 30, 2017 by irena trebic
Are you wondering whether we still have access to Hoover’s Company Profiles? Yes, we still have Hoover’s but, as part of ProQuest’s simplification process, Hoover’s Company Profiles are now part of the Business Market Research Collection (BMRC), which brings four sources together to help students more easily conduct the research they need to produce business […]