University of British Columbia Library

The University of British Columbia Library (UBC Library) is the library system of the University of British Columbia (UBC). The library is one of the 124 members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). In 2025, UBC Library ranked 32th among members of the ARL for the number of volumes in library (physical volumes), making it the third largest Canadian academic library after the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta. However, UBC Library ranked 23rd for the titles held (physical and online documents) and second in Canada. UBC Library is one of the largest research libraries in Canada, with 13 branches and divisions at UBC and at other locations, including branches at Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, and one at the UBC Okanagan campus. As of 2025, UBC Library's collection comprises 8.3 million items, including 4.2 million e-books, 5.3 million microforms, 440,000 journal titles and more than 923,000 maps, videos and other multimedia materials. During the year 2024–2025, the UBC community consisted of 101,949 unique users and in 2019 downloaded 3.4 million ebooks and 7.4 million journal articles, the equivalent of 89 journal article downloads and 41 ebook downloads per person. UBC Library has one of the largest collection of Asian-language materials in North America and the largest biomedical collection in Western Canada. It is a depository libra

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