University of British Columbia Library
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| Type | Academic library system of the University of British Columbia (UBC) |
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| Established | 1914 |
| Branches | 15 |
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| Items collected | more than 7.9 million books, 2.3 million e-books, 5.4 million e-resources, 5.3 million microforms, 923,000 maps, videos and other multimedia materials. |
| Size | 7,978,857 |
| Legal deposit | depository library for publications of the governments of British Columbia (BC), Canada, Japan and the United Nations. |
| Other information | |
| Staff | 307 |
| Website | [1] |
The University of British Columbia Library is the library system of the University of British Columbia (UBC). In 2014, UBC Library ranked 22nd among members of the Association of Research Libraries.
UBC Library is one of the largest research libraries in Canada, with 15 branches and divisions at UBC and at other locations, including branches at Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, and one at the UBC Okanagan campus.
As of February 2016, UBC Library's collection comprises more than seven million volumes, more than 2.1 million e-books, more than 5.3 million microforms and more than 923,000 maps, videos and other multimedia materials.
UBC Library has the largest collection of Asian-language materials in North America and the largest biomedical collection in Western Canada. It is a depository library for publications of the governments of British Columbia (BC), Canada, Japan and the United Nations.
The Library's collections of special and unique materials include the archives of Canadian author and artist Douglas Coupland, the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs (consisting of more than 18,000 rare and unique early photographs of British Columbia), the H. Colin Slim Stravinsky Collection (the largest collection of its kind in Canada, including more than 130 items documenting the work and life of Igor Stravinsky) and the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection, containing more than 25,000 rare and one-of-a-kind items relating to the discovery of BC, the development of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and Chinese immigration to Canada. The collection includes documents, books, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, silver, glass, ceramic ware and other artifacts.
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