News

In October 2016, Library and Archives Canada hosted the National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS) Foundational Assembly – it was such an inspiring gathering with tremendous experience, expertise, and goodwill. Arising from this assembly, the NHDS Steering Committee has commenced work on further refining a draft action plan and planning for broader community engagement and involvement in the confirmation of the plan and its implementation.

The BC Provincial Digital Library (PDL) Initiative Communique #2, January 2017 is now available from the PDL website.

The Communique includes an update on infrastructure, an interview with Loren Fantin from OurDigitalWorld, and more!

BC ELN is delighted to kick off the new year by launching BC ELN's Strategic Plan, 2016-2021. The Strategic Plan is now available on the website at http://bceln.ca/about/strategic-plan

BC ELN and the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) are pleased to announce a partnership to offer reciprocal repository and preservation services to their members.

Our common mandate to increase capacity for member libraries by leveraging collective resources and expertise is beautifully realised in this BC ELN-COPPUL partnership, which will put supported repository and preservation infrastructure within reach for all our libraries.
-BC ELN Executive Director Anita Cocchia

Provider neutral BC Legislative Library MARC records for September 2016 are now available for free download on the Legislative Library MARC Records page.

Questions? Contact:

Sunni Nishimura
Manager, BC ELN

On October 3, 2016, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) released a call letter for the 2017-2018 funding cycle for the Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP):

ORCID will be hosting a free full-day workshop in Vancouver on Friday, October 7. 

The theme of the meeting is "ORCID in the community", with talks on ORCID APIs, research information interoperability, ORCID at scale and platform integrations. There will be ample opportunity for networking and Q&A.  We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!

To learn more and to register, visit https://orcid.org/content/2016-orcid-vancouver-workshop 

A report from the Provincial Digital Library (PDL) May 10th Symposium is now available. BC ELN participated in the May 10th Planning Committee and attended the cross-sector symposium. The report captures discussions from the day and preliminary priorities for moving forward.

From the May 10th Planning Committee:

The Archives Association of BC recently announced that it will be holding the 3-day version of the Digital Preservation Management Workshop (http://www.dpworkshop.org/) this October in Vancouver with funding from the Documentary Heritage Communities Program.