Event Registration Open #HonouringIndigenousWriters March 2023
Honouring Indigenous Writers 2023 Event registration for Honouring Indigenous Writers 2023 is now open! This year Xwi7xwa Library is working with Okanagan Library to host two author readings and discussions with Brian Thomas Isaac (virtual) and Jessica Johns (hybrid). Jessica Johns – Bad Cree March 24 12-1PM PST Hybrid – Register: https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3719712 […]
32nd MMIWG2S Memorial March
Beginning in 1992 after the murder of a woman on Powell Street in Vancouver, the Women’s Memorial March takes place every Valentine’s Day in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). The march continues three decades on and will take place on February 14th, 2023, beginning at Main and Hastings on the land of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh […]
Applications now closed: Hiring Hosts!
We are looking for 3 student employees to join our team! Job Description Xwi7xwa Library Hosts provide customer service support to students, faculty and staff, including checking out library materials, welcoming and directing patrons, assisting in retrieving and re-shelving library materials, connecting patrons to needed services, and helping patrons to book appointments with librarians as […]
Closed due to snow!
Due to the snow our staff are working from home and our branch is physically closed! For research assistance email xwi7xwa.library@ubc.ca and we will try our best to get you access to e-resources and, where possible, physical information sources nearest to you! We apologize for the inconvenience and will have updates posted here as soon […]
Happy Winter Solstice from Xwi7xwa Library!
Happy Winter Solstice everyone! Here are a few of our favourite highlights from 2022. Visits to UBC Farm, tours of PARC, our student librarian Justina Bruns setting up a display! Kayla Lar-Son and student librarian Kate Differ creating our Winter Solstice window display. Our student librarians Justina and Leah Vanderweide running programming for National […]
Celebrate Metis Week – November 13-19!
From November 13-19 we are celebrating Metis week! We’ve decorated our branch and created a display, come visit our location and learn more. Can’t make it campus? We gave a research guide you can find online: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/metisstudies
Xwi7xwa Library FNHL Series
From October 14 to November 4 Xwi7xwa Library (Karleen Delaurier-Lyle) will be hosting a series of presentations and workshops offered both virtually and in person (FNHL Longhouse Boardroom – 1985 West Mall). October 14 (1-2:30PM): Exploring Resources Does your assignment require peer-reviewed sources but you aren’t sure what that means? Are you unsure of the differences between […]
Giant Floor Map – Public Access October 6
Join us on October 6 from 12:30AM-3:30PM in the Sty-Wet-Tan (Great Hall) in FNHL Longhouse (1985 West Mall) ! Check out our giant Indigenous Peoples Giant Floor Map. The map is accompanied by various resources related to topics such as Language, Treaties, and more! To browse all topics see here: https://cangeoeducation.ca/en/maps/indigenous-peoples-atlas-of-canada/
Virtual Drop-In Hours
From Monday to Friday 11AM – 3PM you can now access us virtually for research support! Join Zoom Meeting Meeting URL: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66781313244?pwd=VVB1WVJhVU91bjBobkRWVUkyc2lXdz09 Meeting ID: 667 8131 3244 Passcode: 465519
Relation to Research: Traditional Knowledges in Academic Libraries with X̱wi7x̱wa Library
Relation to Research: Traditional Knowledges in Academic Libraries with X̱wi7x̱wa Library Come join us on an informative session as we learn from Kayla and Karleen how to: access materials for Indigenous knowledges so that problematic scholarship is not perpetuated, how to acknowledge self in relation to research, how to utilize knowledges as voices of our […]