The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) is a facility at the Vancouver campus of the

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. The Learning Centre is built around the refurbished core of the 1925 UBC Main Library. The Centre is named for Irving. K. Barber,

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and a graduate of UBC.

Programs and services

The IKBLC provides library systems, education centre, library and a conduit of knowledge for lifelong learners and space for UBC Library's print collection and collections of rare and special materials.

BC History Digitization Program

Started in 2006, the goal of the

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program is to promote access to

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's historical resources, with free online access to provincial historical materials.

Indigitization

The Indigitization program supports

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communities and organizations in British Columbia to digitize their

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materials by providing grant funding and digitization training. The program is unique as it prioritizes communities' needs and ensures that communities retain

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and control over their cultural heritage materials. Indigitization is a joint project of IKBLC, the

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, the iSchool at UBC, and Northern BC Archives (at UNBC), and continuously receives feedback from Indigenous project partners and grantees through initiatives such as th
Indigenous Futures Forum
held in 2016.

Multimedia repository

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of lectures are archived and accessible through th
Webcasts Portal

Chapman Learning Commons

The Chapman Learning Commons, in a refurbished central section of the Learning Centre, provides space for group work as well as seating for individual study. It provides support and services for research and information literacy instruction, writing assistance, learning skills programs and technology through one-to-one help, workshops, peer mentoring and virtual resources and services.

Facilities

Music, Art & Architecture Library
* Collection space for 2,100,000 volumes including open stack shelving and 1,800,000 item capacity with the

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(ASRS)
Rare Books and Special Collections
* Climate-controlled vault for rare books and archives * Th
Wallace B. and Madeline H. Chung Collection

iSchool@UBC: School of Library, Archival and Information Studies
(iSchool)
Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology
(CTLT) * Gateway Programs – Arts One, Science One, Coordinated Arts and Coordinated Science * Dodson and Lillooet Rooms * 157-seat Victoria Learning Theatre * Classrooms, seminar rooms, project rooms, boardrooms * Ridington Reading Room and Musqueam Reading Room * Ike’s Café with a

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of more than 80 persons

External links

UBC Learning Commons

Chapman Learning Commons

Indigitization

References

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