The Library at VIU recently launched VIUSpace to digitally preserve and showcase selected VIU scholarship, together with special collections that represent the unique character of our region. Pilot content to date has ...

Book review of "American Gangsters, Then and Now: An Encyclopedia" by Nate Hendley (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2009).

Coordinator of Library Automation and Technical Service at VIU, Dan Sifton explains how student and faculty research at VIU and Royal Roads University will soon be more accessible.

Like their colleagues in public services, technical services employees must continually adapt and evolve to keep pace with changes - often driven by technology - that push at the library from all directions. The most ...

Book review of "American Civil War" edited by Steven E. Woodworth (Detriot, MI: Gale, 2008).

Book review of "The Encyclopedia of Earth: A Complete Visual Guide" by Michael Allaby, Robert R. Coenraads, S. Hutchinson, Karen McGhee, and John O'Byrne (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).

Many libraries have implemented progressive policies to encourage and increase library usage. In this context of change this article looks at the small but growing number of libraries that have abolished overdue fines in ...

Presentation from the annual DLFforum (Nov 6-9 2016, Milwaukee). From the published schedule: A Coal Miner’s History: Mapping Digitized Audio Interviews Leveraging skills we developed in an earlier mapping project, the ...

A new shared institutional research repository is expected to be up and running this fall. Coordinator of Library Automation and Technical Services at VIU, Dan Sifton says combining the repositories will save money and ...

A three year pilot project is expected to enhance the experience of finding research material online. Dan Sifton, Vancouver Island University's Coordinator of Library Automation and Technical Services, says the repositories ...