Featured Resources: Updated Core Competencies in the BC Curriculum

Featured Resources: Updated Core Competencies in the BC Curriculum

The latest display at UBC Education Library features resources supporting the Core Competencies in BC Education.  One side of the display highlights professional books and the other side, picture books.  Each picture book includes a bookmark highlighting which Core Competency it links to. What changed? A few of the updates include: Collaboration has been added […]

Collection Spotlight: Graphic Novels

Collection Spotlight: Graphic Novels

UBC Education Library’s newest display theme is Graphic Novels.  Come by and check them out!  

Collection Spotlight: The Truth About Cats & Dogs

Collection Spotlight: The Truth About Cats & Dogs

The Truth About Cats & Dogs: Children’s Books About the World’s Most Popular Pets January 6 – 20, 2020 This exhibit features fiction and non-fiction children’s books about cats and dogs.  From well-loved classics like Old Yeller by Fred Gipson to newer graphic novels like Fluffy Strikes Back by Ashley Spires, library patrons and pet lovers of all […]

Video showcases how UBC Education Library helps shape academic success

Video showcases how UBC Education Library helps shape academic success

With her practicum just around the corner, Glichelle Pereyra talks to us about her decision to come back to school for a Bachelor of Education, and how the Education Library is helping her succeed. From borrowing Micro-bits to attending workshops, Glichelle gives us insight to how she made the most of what the Library has […]

Collection Spotlight: Winter Wonderland

Collection Spotlight: Winter Wonderland

Our new Collection Spotlight is up.  “Winter Wonderland” is a gathering of children’s books with a winter theme. Primary (K-3) All you need for a snowman    PZ4.9.S344 Al 2002 Bear’s winter party  PZ4.9.H63 Br 2016 Bedtime for Bear   PZ4.9.H45497 Bd 2010 Counting on snow   PZ4.9.N4835 Cn 2010 Every autumn comes the bear   PZ10.3.A86923 Ev […]

Featured New Resources: November 2019

Featured New Resources: November 2019

Click on the book cover to take you to the UBC Library catalogue record for the item. Teaching mathematics in the visible learning classroom, grades K-2 / John Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Kateri Thunder, John Hattie, and Nancy Frey. Call Number: QA135.6 .A46 2019   Puppetry in theatre and arts education : head, hands and heart / […]

Featured New Children’s & YA Books: November 2019

Featured New Children’s & YA Books: November 2019

Click on the book cover to take you to the UBC Library catalogue record for the item. Small in the city / Sydney Smith. Call Number: PZ7.1 .S6566 Sm 2019   The boy at the back of the class / Onjali Q. Raúf ; illustrated by Pippa Curnick. Call Number: PZ7.1 .R375 By 2019   Dreamers […]

The New Great Reads Collection at UBC Education Library

The New Great Reads Collection at UBC Education Library

Have you checked out the new Great Reads collection at the Education Library? Located on the main level of the library, the Great Reads collection features fiction and non-fiction books for adult and young adult audiences. The purpose of the collection is to support the practice of leisure reading. In addition to supporting health and […]

Collection Spotlight: Young Adult Fiction @UBCEdLib

Collection Spotlight: Young Adult Fiction @UBCEdLib

 Young Adult Fiction @UBCEdLib is a gathering of popular, classic and current titles in the YA Literature genre. Find these books in the latest “Collection Spotlight” area at the Education Library branch.

Collection Spotlight: Lest We Forget

Collection Spotlight: Lest We Forget

UBC Education Library has it’s Remembrance Day books on display at the main level breezeway Collection Spotlight area.  Please search “remembrance day” in the search box on the EdLib homepage for a list of books on the topic.