In September 2006, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia Library announced the BC History Digitization Program. The focus of the program is to promote increased access to British Columbia’s historical resources, including providing matching funds to undertake digitization projects that will result in free online access to our unique provincial historical material. Below is a list of successful applicants for 2009.
| Project Title: Hallmark Society Photograph Digitization Project Organization: Hallmark Society Amount: $4,592 Description: Project involves digitization of photographs most of which were taken during inventories of heritage structures in Greater Victoria in the 1960s and 1970s.Hallmark Society Archives |
| Project Title: Jewish Western Bulletin Newspaper Digitization and Access Project Organization: Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia Amount: $3,495.00 Description: Digitize 36 rolls of microfilm representing the years 1923-1995 (40K pages) and 176 print copies representing the years 1996-2000 (3.5K pages) of the Jewish Western Bulletin.Jewish Western Bulletin |
| Project Title: Ray Knight Collection Digitization Project Organization: Ladysmith Archives Amount: $9,200 Description: The project includes the digitization of approximately 3,000 historical photographs depicting the history of Ladysmith from the Ray Knight Collection.Ladysmith & District Historical Archives |
| Project Title: A Life in the Woods: Oral History from the West Kootenay Forest Organization: Nelson & District Museum, Archives, Art Gallery and Historical Society Amount: $3,000 Description: This project will result in the digitization and provision of on-line access to sixteen oral history interviews and associated material relating to the history of forestry in the West Kootenay area.A Life in the Woods: Oral Histories from the West Kootenay Forests
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| Project Title: Rod LeMay and Maud Lane Sous-Fonds Digitization Project Organization: Powell River Historical Museum & Archives Association Amount: $6,675 Description: Digitization of approximately 4,000 photographic images focusing particularly on the history of the pulp and paper industry in the Powell River area.Rod LeMay and Maud Lane Photo Collection |
| Project Title: Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project Organization: Prince George Public Library Amount: $15,000.00 Description: The project is part of an on-going effort to digitize local newspapers from before the incorporation of Prince George to the present day. This phase will result in the digitization of approximately 36,000 additional pages of newspapers.Prince George Newspapers Project
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| Project Title: Marshall Sharp Fonds: Salt Spring Island Aerial Photographs, Landscapes, Events and People Organization: Salt Spring Archives Amount: $10,000.00 Description: This project will allow the Salt Spring Island Archives to digitize approximately 15,000 photographic images from the collection of newspaper photographer Marshall Sharp that depict the historical development of the island community.Marshall Sharp Photo Collection
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| Project Title: Sechelt Community Archives Digitization Project Organization: District of Sechelt Amount: $5,000.00 Description: This is a continuation of a project that will digitization of 5,700 photographs, negatives and slides housed in the Sechelt Community Archives.Sechelt Community Archives
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| Project Title: BC Editorial Cartoons Collection Organization: Simon Fraser University Library Amount: $7,778 Description: Project to digitize and describe an additional 800 items from the SFU Editorial Cartoons Collection.SFU Library Editorial Cartoons Collection
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| Project Title: UBCIC Activism in the 80s Organization: Union of BC Indian Chiefs Resource Centre Amount: $12,600.00 Description: This project will result in the creation of two distinct multi-media digital collections that document the Indian Child Caravan and the Constitution Express.Constitution Express Digital Collection Indian Child Caravan Digital Collection
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| Project Title: The Colonial Dispatches, 1846-1858 Organization: University of Victoria Libraries Amount: $10,000 Description: This project will digitize approximately 8,250 images of Vancouver Island colonial dispatches (1846-1957) and entry books (1949-1867) and 250 colour copies of pre-1871 B.C. maps.The Colonial Despatches
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| Project Title: BC City Directories Digitization Project, 1902-1915 Organization: Vancouver Public Library Amount: $15,000 Description: Part of a continuing effort, this project will digitize approximately 32,000 pages from the BC City Directories (1902-1915).BC City Directories
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| Project Title: Bill Silver Newspaper Collection Organization: Vanderhoof Public Library Amount: $5,580 Description: Digitization of approximately 18,000 pages of newspapers from the Omineca Express (1990-1997, 2000-2007).Bill Silver Digital Newspaper Archive
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| Project Title: West Kootenay Women’s Association Archival Digitization Project Organization: West Kootenay Women’s Association Amount: $4,000.00 Description: Creation of a multi-media digital collection by the West Kootenay Women’s Association to document the development of feminism in the West Kootenays.Kootenay Feminism
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For more information please contact:
| Chris Hives Coordinator, BC History Digitization Program University Archivist, UBC Library chris.hives@ubc.ca or 604-827-3951 |