Reading Rooms Catalogues

  • Art History, Visual Art and Theory Department Visual Resources Centre
    Holdings in catalogue include print books and AHVA Department staff publications.
    Subjects: Art history, visual art, art theory.
  • Audrey & Harry Hawthorn Library & Archives (Museum of Anthropology Reading Room)
    Holdings catalogued include books, journals, archives.
    Subjects: Museology, Northwest Coast material culture, world ceramics and textiles.
  • Geographic Information Centre
    Holdings catalogued include maps specializing in BC and Canada, atlases, books, video recordings, course reserves on geographical topics, and the University Aerial Photo Collection.
    Subjects: Geography, BC and Canada cartographic materials.
  • ICICS/Computer Science Reading Room
    Holdings catalogued include books, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, electronic resources, theses.
    Subjects: Computer science, electrical & computer engineering, mathematics, technology & society, psychology, economics, medicine, data science.
  • UBC Botanical Garden Library and Reading Room
    Holdings catalogued include monographs, textbooks, manuals, and handbooks in a variety of languages.
    Subjects: Ecology, ethnobotany, communication and education in the sciences, floras, gardening and gardens, the history of horticulture and botany, Asian gardens, native plants of British Columbia, plant identification, plants and gardens in art and photography, sustainability and biodiversity.

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  1. Go to www.library.ubc.ca
  2. In the top navigation menu, select Search Collections
  3. Under Books & Media (catalogue), look for UBC Archives, Bibliographies and Reading Rooms (Visit)

Or bookmark this link: https://bibrrs.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/search

Note that not all of the reading rooms are on this catalogue and not all of the reading rooms in this catalogue are currently active.