The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre ( IKBLC ) is a facility at the Vancouver campus of the University of British Columbia . The learning centre is built around the refurbished core of the 1925 UBC Main Library. The Centre is named for Irving. K. Barber , a philanthropist and graduate of UBC.
4-671: 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. Started in 2006, the goal of the digitization program is to promote access to British Columbia 's historical resources, with free online access to provincial historical materials. The Indigitization program supports Indigenous communities and organizations in British Columbia to digitize their cultural heritage materials by providing grant funding and digitization training. The program
8-816: Is a private for-profit company that manages municipal libraries on an outsourced basis. It is the largest library outsourcing company in the United States. It runs 20 library systems in 80 locations. Its headquarters are in Rockville, Maryland and it also operates in the UK. The company started in 1982 with the MINI MARC cataloging system and custom software for libraries. It expanded into managing libraries at housed within federal agencies, an opportunity created by Reagan-era privatization policies . In 1997 it began operating public library systems after signing
12-622: Is unique as it prioritizes communities' needs and ensures that communities retain copyright and control over their cultural heritage materials. Indigitization is a joint project of IKBLC, the Museum of Anthropology , the iSchool at UBC , and Northern BC Archives (at UNBC ), and continuously receives feedback from Indigenous project partners and grantees through initiatives such as the Indigenous Futures Forum held in 2016. Webcasts of lectures are archived and accessible through
16-614: The Webcasts Portal. 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. Library Systems %26 Services Library Systems & Services
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