McFarland, Dana
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A twosome from Susan Juby
(The British Columbia Review, 2022-07-01)Dana McFarland reviews two books by Susan Juby, Me three (Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada, 2022) and Mindful of murder (Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2022). -
Creating a Selective Web Archive of Central and North Vancouver Island Community Information during COVID-19: VIU Special Call for Proposals related to COVID-19 [Abstract of Proposal]
(2020-06-03)Describes and offers context for a proposed project to curate a web archive related to COVID-19 impacts for Central and North Vancouver Island. -
Open Access Week 2019: Reflections on open access, OER, and community of practice
(Vancouver Island University, 2019-10-19)The International Open Access Week theme for 2019 “Open for Whom” asks us to consider what is at stake when we don’t prioritize Open and when we don’t think about the outcomes of scholarly and educational practices. -
BC Digital Library initiative: Radical collaboration toward community infrastructure for Open Access
(BC Digital Library, 2019-01)The idea of the BC Digital Library is to provide a community good by “materializing” infrastructure that enables Open Access to knowledge and stories about and by British Columbia and its people. As an ongoing initiative, ... -
Using baskets and a rubric to assess online resources in the "messy middle"
(ACRL, 2017)Moving beyond easy "keep or cancel" decisions can be difficult. This multi-attribute rubric, when used to evaluate and compare e-resources within categories or "baskets," gives librarians a holistic tool to assess all ... -
Transforming Technical Services, Opening Knowledge for the Community : A VIU Technical Services Sixer
(2016-05-17)Presentation from the annual Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference (April 29 2016, Victoria). From the published schedule: Over the past few years VIU has been developing new work and skills in their technical services ... -
Cloud is Calling – Or is it Zombies of Death?
(BCNet, 2016-04-27)At Vancouver Island University, the Library and Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL) increasingly rely on cloud-based services to build capacity and manage costs. Institutional repositories, integrated ... -
[Abstract] Laying the Groundwork for a New Library Service: Scholar-Practitioner & Graduate Student Attitudes Toward Altmetrics and the Curation of Online Profiles
(Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2016)Objective – In order to inform a library service related to creating and maintaining online scholarly profiles, we sought to assess the knowledge base and needs of our academic communities. Participants were queried about ... -
Dashboard metrics for scholarly activity at a small university: Open vs. ‘freemium’ vs. premium
(2015-10-23)Vancouver Island University (VIU) is a regional, teaching-focused university in British Columbia, Canada, that features undergraduate research and applied scholarship in a wide range of fields. The Library can contribute ... -
More than meets the "I": Helping your scholar-practitioners demonstrate impact in the academy & beyond
(2015-09-18)Traditional scholarly metrics and indexing are converging with social media, resulting in new approaches for measuring scholarly influence. There are also unprecedented possibilities for assessing impact in non-traditional ... -
Interrogating impact: Altmetrics as indicators of influence in & beyond the academy
(2015-09-18)An opportunity of altmetrics is to indicate influence of scholarship beyond the academy. Altmetrics offers scholars who are embracing innovation in scholarly communication - such as open access or non-traditional publishing ... -
VIUSpace: Introducing the Library's Showcase for Selected VIU Scholarship & Special Collections
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 5/3/2012)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 ... -
Sit, watch, listen: Collaboratively creating Indigenous knowledge protocols
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 4/10/2012)First Nations Elders-in-Residence at VIU offered teachings to First Nations and Library faculty to address culturally-responsive representation of indigenous knowledge within formal memory institutions. The project models ... -
Using virtual classroom software for library instruction [pre-print]
(Neal-Schuman;, 2007)Stakeholders in our virtual classroom project agree that the experiment with content development and delivery using a synchronous tool provided a valuable learning opportunity, with many of the learning points unanticipated. ... -
Designing Library Services for the PDA
(Routledge, 2006)Handheld electronic devices are becoming popular and are playing an increasingly important role in the distributed learning environment. Enabling library users to maximize their access to library resources through these ... -
Multimedia in higher education
(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1996)Multimedia technology in the future of education is a theme that dominates the recent literature of education and information technology. Higher education has not so far demonstrated a high degree of enthusiasm for multimedia, ... -
Indian Reserve Cut-offs in British Columbia, 1912-1924: An Examination of Federal-Provincial Negotiations and Consultation with Indians
(University of British Columbia, 1990)This history of reserve land cut-offs in British Columbia considers the individual development of federal and provincial Indian land policies, the negotiations to harmonize them after union in 1871, and the efforts of ...
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