Editing University of Victoria (section)

===Libraries and museum===
[[File:UVic McPherson Library.jpg|thumb|The Mearns Centre for Learning -McPherson Library is one of two libraries at the University of Victoria.]]
University of Victoria Libraries system is composed of two libraries: the William C. Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library and the Diana M. Priestly Law Library. UVic Libraries has undergone significant growth in recent years thanks to the university's investment in library purchases and research. Amongst the highlights from Special Collections & University Archives are: · &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

* Institutional records of the University of Victoria, Victoria College, and the Provincial Normal School, and related organizations
* Archives of leading faculty members, Anarchist Studies
* Arts and Culture, including artists archives
* Environmental Studies, including archives of scientists and regional organizations
* Transgender Archives and the Victoria Women's Movement Archives
* Legal History, including Indigenous laws
* Literature and Literary Criticism, including Modernist British, American and Anglo-Irish literature
* Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts and fragments
* Military History, including oral histories and BC Political History
* Victoria, Vancouver Island and West Coast History

Renovations and construction have included new Special Collections & University Archives classrooms, an innovative Learning Commons, the addition of Tek Booths, an expanded student lounge, and the Legacy Maltwood gallery space. The UVic Libraries collection includes over 4 million physical and electronic resources, almost 200,000 journals and 985 databases.<ref>{{cite web |last=Khair |first=Shahira |date=March 2023 |title=Facts and Figures |url=https://www.uvic.ca/library/about/ul/facts/index.php |website=University of Victoria}}</ref>

The University of Victoria Libraries has a unique collection of textbooks used in British Columbia’s public schools since the province joined confederation in 1871. This historical textbooks collection includes books on a variety of school subjects including science, math, health, English and language arts, foreign languages, history, and social studies.

The University of Victoria’s Legacy Art Galleries has two locations––Legacy Downtown and Legacy Maltwood at UVic Libraries––which host loan exhibitions and show the works of local artists, students, and faculty.

The University Art Collection, founded in 1953 by Dr. W.H. Hickman, Principal of Victoria College (1953–1963), consists of 6,000 works, mainly by contemporary artists practicing in British Columbia. The Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, founded through the bequest of English sculptor and antiquarian Katharine Emma Maltwood (1878–1961) and her husband John Maltwood (d. 1967), reflects their varied taste which included Arts and Crafts, and English Gothic and Tudor periods. The collection of 12,000 works of fine, decorative and applied arts includes Asian ceramics, costumes, rugs, seventeenth-century English furniture, Canadian paintings and Katherine Maltwood's own sculptures.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.digitalmuseums.ca/vmc-decommissioned/|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130628051418/http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/GetMuseumProfile.do?lang=en&chinCode=maltwd|url-status=dead|title=Digital Museums Canada Decommissions the Virtual Museum of Canada Website|archivedate=June 28, 2013|website=Digital Museums Canada}}</ref>

====Transgender Archives====
{{Main |Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria}}
The [[Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria|Transgender Archives]] are a part of the University of Victoria Libraries and are committed to preserving the histories of pioneering activists, community leaders, and researchers who have made contributions to the betterment of [[Transgender|trans]], [[Non-binary gender|non-binary]], and [[Two-spirit]] people.<ref name="ReferenceB">{{Cite web |url=https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ |title=Transgender Archives – University of Victoria |website=www.uvic.ca |access-date=2019-10-30 |archive-date=2021-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210230004/https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ |url-status=live }}</ref>