About the Archives
As of 2024, Discorder Magazine has published almost four hundred and fifty issues. It is valuable both to the staff as a reference resource and to anyone who is interested in the cultural, and countercultural, history of Vancouver.
Mission:
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- To provide members of the CiTR & Discorder Magazine with access to newsprint copies of Discorder Magazines
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- To support research into the past activities of CiTR & Discorder Magazine.
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- To preserve the newsprint issues for the future
The in-house archives is a collection of the physical newsprint. It is under the care of the Discorder Magazine Archivist and the Discorder Magazine Reading Room Assistants.
It is located at the station and can be accessed there by CiTR members and staff. We also field some requests from the broader Vancouver community.
Join the Mailing List
Join the mailing list to hear news, upcoming events, and volunteer slots.
Email archives@citr.ca to join
Visit the Discorder Magazine Reading Room
Drop in hours
Term 2 (January through April 10th 2025)
Tuesdays and Fridays, 2pm to 4pm.
Room LL512 @ CiTR Campus Radio
6133 University Blvd.
Vancouver, BC V6T1Z1 Canada
There are Reading Room Assistants available most days to help search for digital and physical material.
The Reading Room is primarily meant to support CiTR members but non-members can arrange a tour through archives@citr.ca.
Questions…
About the Discorder Magazine Archives?
Contact archives@citr.ca
About the in-house Music Library?
Contact the Music Collective music.executive@citr.ca
About the digital Music Library?
Contact the Music & Volunteer Department Manager hello@citr.ca
About the history, past activities, etc. of CiTR | Discorder?
Contact archives@citr.ca
Resources
This is a non-exhaustive collection of resources for researching the history of CiTR.
CiTR.ca
The first stop for research into old material is right here at citr.ca. You can find archived issues of Discorder Magazine as well as shows and podcasts dating back to the early 2000s.
UBC Open Collections (Hosted by UBC Library)
Discorder Magazine Collection
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/discorder
UBC Library has digitized copies of almost all issues of Discorder Magazine. These are freely available to the public. It is a particularly good source for our older material that is not available through our website. We do not manage this collection ourselves.
If you need help navigating the collection, email archives@citr.ca or drop by the station.
CiTR Audio Collection
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collecitions/citraudio
There is a digital collection of CiTR materials on. You may be able to find things here that are not available on our website.
Internet Archive
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22CITR%22
A collection of recordings, mainly Dave Radio, can be found through the Internet Archive.
UBC & UBC Student Society Holdings
CiTR’s material has been preserved by multiple locations on campus.
AMS Archives
https://www.ams.ubc.ca/archives/
The Alma Mater Society Archives keeps a collection of material created by student organizations. As a student service club, the AMS Archives is where the radio station deposits records of its activities (meeting minutes, licenses, correspondence, etc)
UBC Archives
https://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/u_arch/radio.pdf
Documents, photographs, and sound recordings (including shows, radio plays, campus events, public service announcements).