Digital Preservation Management Roundtable: Best Practices vs. Reality
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC). This program is a conversation and discuss how they are working towards implementing what they learned to manage the digital records in their archives. The roundtable as a follow-up to the 3-day workshop on Digital Preservation Management. They will share strategies and tools from the workshop and discuss the steps required to develop an effective digital preservation program.
This event happened on November 17, 2016
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Bass, J., & Jordan Bass. (04/01/2013). Archivaria: A PIM perspective: Leveraging personal information management research in the archiving of personal digital records Association of Canadian Archivists. [Link]
Bütikofer, N., Hofman, J., & Ross, S. (2006). Managing and archiving records in the digital era: Changing professional orientations. Baden: Hier Jetzt. [Available at Koerner Library Stacks-CD974.4 .M35 2006]
Hawkins, D. T. (2013). Personal archiving : Preserving our digital heritage Information Today, Inc. [Link]
Jobst, M. (2010). Preservation in digital cartography: Archiving aspects Springer. [Link]
Swanson, S. E. (2002). Digital Archiving. Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 2(4), 105-109. doi:10.1300/j186v02n04_09 [Link]
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Walter “Robby” Robinson – Spotlight on the Church: How Sex Abuse Went Unnoticed for so Long, and What it Took to Expose it
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Vancouver Institute. Walter “Robby” Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Boston Globe where he currently holds the title of Editor-at-Large. He led the Globe‘s coverage of the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal, for which the newspaper won, and he personally accepted, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Mr. Robinson covered the White House for the Globe during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. In 1990 and 1991, he was the Globe‘s Middle East Bureau Chief, and covered the first Persian Gulf War. He ran the newspaper’s investigative Spotlight Team for seven years. Mr. Robinson has been a journalism fellow at Stanford University and has received honorary degrees from Northeastern University and Emerson College in Boston. He was portrayed by Michael Keaton in the 2015 film Spotlight, the winner for Best Picture at the 88th Academy Awards. This event took place in Lecture Hall No. 2 in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre at the University of British Columbia on November 12, 2016.
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2017 Cycle for Indigitization Grant Program open
Indigitization is pleased to announce the sixth call of applicants for the annual Indigitization Grant Program. The Indigitization Grant Program is a matching funds program supporting audio-cassette digitization in partnership with Indigenous and Aboriginal communities across British Columbia.
The program seeks to facilitate communities and organizations in converting audio materials on cassette to uncompressed digital file formats, such as broadcast wave. Matching funds are provided by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre of up to $10,000 per project, while participants also receive training and support throughout the digitization cycle. The program, which accepts applications annually, also seeks to promote enhanced and appropriate access to these recordings for communities, and where possible, the broader public.
The Indigitization Grant has been revised with a new application form and guidelines. Previous and new applicants are encouraged to submit proposals.
Eligibility
B.C. First Nations, Métis and Inuit community institutions and agencies that have the preservation of information resources as part of their mandate are eligible to apply for funding. Other Aboriginal organizations will be considered with a statement of support, such as a Band Council Resolution from local governance, indicating how the materials produced will be managed.
Access
At-risk audio materials in B.C.’s Aboriginal communities may require digitization before access protocols can be established. Although enhanced and open access to cultural materials is a primary goal of the Learning Centre, projects that seek to establish protocol-based access are encouraged to apply.
Deadline
To apply, please email the Application Form as a PDF document to Sarah Dupont (sarah.dupont@ubc.ca) by 5pm on March 3, 2017. See below for Application Guidelines and Application Form.
All applicants will receive a confirmation email within 72 hours from the project coordinator confirming that the application was received.
Application Guidelines (MS Word, PDF)
Application Form (MS Word, PDF)
For further information, please contact:
Sarah Dupont, Aboriginal Engagement Librarian, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, sarah.dupont@ubc.ca 604.827.0342
Gordon Yusko, Assistant Director, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, gordon.yusko@ubc.ca 604.822.2298
The program is a collaboration between the Irving K Barber Learning Centre, and the UBC Museum of Anthropology, among others. The wider mandate of the Indigitization Program is to focus on the conservation and preservation of Indigenous and Aboriginal community information resources.
ACAM Journal Launch – Tributaries
The Asian Canadian Asian Migration Studies program invites you to join us at it’s first academic ACAM journal launch. The ACAM undergraduate journal is a new student-run publication that reaches across various disciplines, genres, and forms, to consider topics around Asian and Asian Canadian identity. The journal seeks to recognize and encourage dialogue around these topics, and to grow as these dialogues continue. Submissions from all UBC students, disciplines and cultural contexts at are welcome. The inaugural issue, “Tributaries”, features collected poetry, short stories, visual art, and essays. This event will be taking place on the traditional, unceded, ancestral homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation.
To celebrate, you are warmly invited to our launch party from 12 – 1PM in the Dodson Room 302 (Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC) on January 6th 2017. Free lunch will be provided to those who RSVP. We are also inviting contributors to read and share their work with the audience. Hope to see you there!
Click here to register for this event. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP. Please let us know if you have any special dietary needs at acam.events@ubc.ca.
From East Mall, enter the Learning Centre through the main doors. Dodson Room is on level 3 in The Chapman Learning Commons. There are two good sized elevators on the lobby level (east mall entrance) that access all levels of the Learning Centre.
100 years of Prince George Citizen and more
Project title: Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project
Organization: Prince George Public Library
Description: The Prince George Newspaper Digitization Project is a collaboration of the Prince George Public Library, the College of New Caledonia Library, the Geoffrey R. Weller Library and the Northern BC Archives at the University of Northern British Columbia. The digital collection provides digital access to all locally published newspaper from 1909 to the present day.
Collection URL: http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca
Prince George Citizen, December 1, 1916
Touchstones Launches Changing Waters
Project title: Changing Waters: The Impact of Hydroelectric Development on the Landscape of British Columbia from the Ron Waters Collection
Organization: Nelson and District Museum, Archives, Art Gallery and Historical Society
Description: Changing Waters features more than 500 colour slides from the late 1950s to the early 1980s of the Kootenay Region, many from mining roads only accessible by four-wheel drive. The majority of the slides highlight the changes to the landscape brought on by the hydroelectric development in the area.
Collection URL: http://www.touchstonesnelson.ca/exhibitions/waters/
1994-32-1928, “Exploring the Kootenays in a Willys Jeep”
Clifford Pereira – Canadian Secret Sailors
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections. Historical geographer Clifford Pereira delivers this lecture about his current, groundbreaking work on the history of Chinese crews on Canadian vessels during the First World War. After a century of silence, a story emerges of hundreds of Asian crew working, and thousands of Chinese transported on ships of the Canadian Pacific “Empress” line as part of the First World War Effort. Clifford Pereira is Kenyan-Asian of Goan heritage, formally based in London, UK and now based in Hong Kong (SAR), who worked in several places around the world and in several industries before embarking on the current career in the heritage industry. This talk is part of the Remembrance Day speaker series, in conjunction with an exhibit at the Chung Collection curated by Clifford Pereira.
This event happened on November 8, 2016.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Macri, F., & Franco David Macri. (01/01/2011). Journal of the hong kong branch of the royal asiatic society: Canadians under fire: C force and the battle of hong kong, december 1941 The Branch. [Link]
Roland, C. G. (2001). Long night’s journey into day : Prisoners of war in hong kong and japan, 1941-1945 Wilfrid Laurier University Press. [Link]
The damned : the Canadians at the battle of Hong Kong and the POW experience, 1941-45 / Nathan M. Greenfield. [Available at Koerner Library Stacks- D767.3 .G73 2010]
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BC History Digitization Program Now Accepting Submissions for Funding
The British Columbia History Digitization Program (BCHDP) promotes increased access to British Columbia’s historical resources by providing matching funds to undertake digitization projects that will result in free online access to unique historical material from around the province. The BCHDP demonstrates the Learning Centre’s dedication to sharing knowledge and supporting education by making local information resources available to people throughout the province and beyond.
Uno Langmann Family Collection of BC Photographs Project
The program, launched by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in 2006, provides matching grants to support projects that make B.C. history freely available.
In 2015 the program awarded more than $198,000 to 24 different community groups in B.C. Projects have included digitization of community newspapers, photographic collections and church and museum archives. In total, the BCHDP has awarded more than $1.6 million dollars since its inception.
The BCHDP is now accepting submissions for the 2016 application round. Applicants can receive up to $15,000 in funds for their projects, and can submit for multi-year projects.
Application Information:
The British Columbia History Digitization Program welcomes applications from private or public institutions and agencies that have the preservation of historical British Columbia materials as part of their mandate. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, libraries, archives, museums, historical societies and post-secondary institutions.
The application submission deadline for 2017/2018 is Monday December 19, 2016. Completed applications (signed, scanned to pdf) will be accepted electronically via email at bc.historydigitization@ubc.ca.
For assistance or clarification on completing the application, please contact the Coordinator at bc.historydigitization@ubc.ca.
Guidelines and Instructions (pdf)
More information about the program and the application process is available on the BCHDP website. To view images of past projects, please visit the B.C. History Digitization Program website.
Sherrill Grace-Landscapes of War and Memory
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections. Since 1977, a new generation of Canadian writers and artists has been mapping the cultural landscapes formed by the memories of war we have inherited, and also the ones we are expected to forget. Challenging, even painful, the art and literature in Grace’s magisterial study build causeways into history, connecting us to trials and traumas many Canadians have never known but that haunt society in subtle and compelling ways. A contemporary scholar of the period under examination, Grace exemplifies her role as witness, investing the text with personal, often lyrical, responses as a way of enacting this crucial memory-work. A professor emerita, Sherill Grace, OC, holds the title of University Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia, where she has taught Canadian Literature and Culture for more than 35 years. She is also professor of English, Distinguished University Scholar, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. This talk is part of the Remembrance Day speaker series, in conjunction with an exhibit at the Chung Collection curated by Clifford Pereira.
This event happened on November 10, 2016
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Landry, P., Scully, A. L., & MacFadden, J. (2003). Juno Beach: Canada in World War II. Toronto: Penguin Canada. [Available at Education Library- D768.15 .L36 2003]
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