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Diwali (Festival of Lights) event recap
The Asian Library hosted its first virtual Diwali or Deepavali celebrations on Thursday, November 12 and it also marked the beginning of celebrating Asian Library’s 60th anniversary. Event attendees enjoyed a variety of folk dances, poems, songs, learned about the traditions surrounding Diwali, and also learned about the history of the Asian Library. Sarbjit Randhawa, […]
Celebrate DIWALI with the Asian Library on Nov 12!
Come and celebrate Diwali (Festival of Lights) with the Asian Library, with the support of the Department of Asian Studies. Thursday, November 12, 2020 11:00 am to 11:30 am Virtual event! Please register at https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/calendar/vancouver/diwali2020. Diwali or Deepavali, which means “a row of lights”, is the most widely celebrated festival in India and throughout the Indian diaspora. It […]
Rare Japanese materials acquired in memory of David Mark Graham
David Mark Graham (1945-2012) was a Vancouver native and a double UBC alumnus (BA, BArch) with a life-long interest in Asia. At UBC, he was closely involved with projects such as the construction of the Asian Centre, the rejuvenation of the Nitobe Japanese Garden, and a proposal for a travelling exhibition of the university’s Tokugawa […]
UBC Library support in making course materials available online for the Fall
Below is the announcement issued by the Associate University Librarian, Collections to faculty members about providing course reserve materials for students in the Fall term. If you have any questions on placing Asian-language materials on reserve, please contact your subject librarians or email asian.reserve@ubc.ca. Dear Colleagues, As UBC looks towards preparing for the Fall term, […]
New Acting Head at Asian Library
We are pleased to announce effective April 20, Adolfo Tarango will be Acting Head of Asian Library during Shirin Eshghi Furuzawa’s one year parental leave. Adolfo has been with the UBC Library since 2016 as Head of Technical Services and currently oversees the Collections Management, Cataloguing, Marking and Preservation Units. Welcome Adolfo!
IGNITE Book Club & Nowruz Display
Due to conditions with the COVID-19 outbreak, the IGNITE Book club: Annahid Dashtgard in conversation with Shirin Eshghi proceeded as scheduled on March 12 but without a public audience. The conversation was captured in order for anyone interested to hear Dashtgard speak about her book, Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation. […]
