Finding Funding Opportunities
Explore our current funds that support UBC Library, its people and programs. If you’re interested in establishing a new fund, we’d love to connect at library.development@ubc.ca and share how you can make a meaningful impact.
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Annual Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize Fund
Established in memory of UBC’s former University Librarian; supports prize and eventual endowment to award a scholarly BC book in perpetuity.
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Created in memory of former University Librarian Basil Stuart-Stubbs, this fund celebrates his passion for books by supporting an annual prize for an outstanding scholarly work about British Columbia. Your gift helps fund the prize today and contributes to building an endowment that will ensure it is awarded in perpetuity.
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Chung Collection Family Endowment
Created by Wallace and Madeline Chung; supports maintenance, access, exhibition, conservation, cataloguing of the Chung Collection.
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Created by Drs. Wallace and Madeline Chung, this endowment preserves and enhances the Chung Collection. Your donation ensures expert reference services, improved access through cataloguing, and proper exhibition and conservation of this world-class collection. To find out more about the Chung Collection, visit its website.
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Diana E. M. Cooper Endowment
Established by the Cooper family to honor Diana Cooper’s 39-year career as a reference librarian at UBC Library.
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Diana played a pivotal role in shaping the Fine Arts collection, as well as supporting generations of students and researchers. Your gift will help provide additional resources in the creative and fine arts, inspiring future scholars and artists.
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Diana Lukin Johnston Award Endowment
Award for UBC Librarians seeking professional development and staff pursuing librarian careers
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Created in loving memory of a passionate reader and life-long learner, the Diana Lukin Johnston Award supports UBC Library staff pursuing careers as professional librarians or Librarians advancing their skills. Your gift helps foster professional growth and lifelong learning among library staff.
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Friends of Asian Library
Supports community engagement activities, instructional programs, collections purchases and equipment needs in the Asian Library. Facilitates digitization, rare material acquisitions and preservation activities in partnership with other units.
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With a focus on Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Urdu language collections and services, Asian Library provides a vital link to Asian language research and engagement at UBC and in Western Canada. Your donation allows Asian Library to enhance and expand its community and instructional programming as well as its collections and resources.
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Friends of Koerner Library Fund
Supports collections, services, programs, and spaces at Koerner Library.
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Your donation will help strengthen collections, spaces, services and programming within Koerner Library. We support both the Faculty of Arts (including Anthropology, Asian Studies, English, Geography, History, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Social Work, Theatre and many other departments) and the Faculty of Education. Your donation will help us expand and deepen our collections, enhance our spaces and deliver outstanding services and programming to our users.