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Email: asian.library@ubc.ca
Asian Centre
1871 West Mall
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada V6T 1Z2
Asian Library Holiday Hours
Asian Library’s opening hours during the Christmas and New Year holidays: December 21 (Mon): 9am to 8pm December 22-23 (Tue-Wed): 9am to 5pm December 24 (Thu): 9am to 3pm December 25 – January 3 (Fri-Sun): closed We will resume our regular hours on Monday, January 4, 2016. Check out more at hours and locations.
The Korea Foundation’s 2016 Support for Korean Studies e-Resources Program
The Asian Library is pleased to announce that, after submitting an application in July 2015, the Library has just been approved to receive the Korea Foundation’s 2016 Support for Korean Studies e-Resources program, which provides US$4,000 in funding assistance for subscriptions to Korean e-resources. With this generous grant from the Foundation, the Library will be […]
Asian Library Extended Open Hours During Exams
To accommodate students’ study schedules, Asian Library will be open extended hours on Fridays during the examination period: December 11: 9am – 8pm December 18: 9am – 8pm Please also visit Hours and Locations to check out the open hours of different library branches. Don’t walk alone if you travel late at night after study. […]
Be a part of the UBC Centennial Lunar New Year Festival!
Join us in February 2016 when UBC celebrates the Year of the Monkey in grand style. The UBC Centennial Lunar New Year Festival is a great opportunity for the UBC community to get involved in one of the campus’ largest cultural events. UBC Centennial Lunar New Year Festival Date: Friday, February 5, 2016 Time: 1:00pm […]
Asian Library partnership for Korean materials
The Asian Library is pleased to announce that UBC Library has been selected to be in the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea)’s Hub Library Membership Program to receive translated Korean literature and resources for research and education. We are expecting to receive the materials from January 2016. The LTI Korea was established by […]
Asian Library Fall Update 2015
Asian Library Fall Update 2015 – click here for the pdf version.
Great Reads for the Holidays
Click here to view the photos of the event! Date: Tuesday, December 1st, 2015 Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm Location: Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 Great Reads at UBC Library was launched in 2011 to provide leisure-reading to community members, students, faculty, and staff. In fall 2015, the Asian Library began building […]
Korean Language Reference Support
Our Korean Librarian, Helen Kim, is on leave until the end of January 2016. We regret that support for Korean language related questions will be available for only 30 hours per week. Please note that the expected wait time for requests will slightly increase. Please direct your reference related questions to Kyung Eun (Alex) Hur […]
Visit of Prof. Nobuyoshi Takashima
Japanese historian, educator and textbook author Takashima Nobuyoshi, Professor Emeritus of the University of Ryukyus, visited the Asian Library on October 15, prior to his special lecture at the C.K.Choi Building. He made a valuable donation of 12 volumes of Nihon no ronten (Thank you for completing our collection!), along with his wife (Takashima Michi)’s […]
New North Korean Film collection
The Asian Library recently acquired a comprehensive North Korean film collection with the generous funding support from the UBC Centre for Korean Research. In the format of DVDs, the collection holds films produced in each decade of the 20th century since the 1960s, all the way through the 21st century. […]