What's Reading You? A Pragmatic Guide to Online Security - PAGES VI: Reading Under Surveillance

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Stephanie Thero

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Stay Safe Online /Stay Private Online are practical tip sheets created by Stephanie Thero for her presentation at the PAGES VI Workshop: Reading Under Surveillance (October 4, 2019, Edmonton, Alberta).

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Tip Sheets: Stay Safe Online & Stay Private Online

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Building a Digital Library: A Case of Successful Collaborations Across Library Employee Groups

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Libraries depend on the successful collaboration of workers across employee groups to ensure high-quality and patroncentred services. Using the development of a digital library of British Columbia's Historical Textbooks as a case study, this presentation will hear from co-op student, CUPE, and librarian team members as they reflect upon how each contributes unique skills and strengths towards the management of a large-scale project. Library workflows of selection, acquisition, digitization, cataloguing, and exhibition development all rely upon the specialized skills of each team member. When such collaborations are productive, library work thrives. Presenters will outline lessons learned throughout the project and discuss the key elements of successful collaborations across library employee groups. This presentation will be relevant to those wanting to know more about the development of a digital library and those interested in multi-employee group team success.

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Pia Russell; Sachi deTreaux; Marilyn Wilson; Shelley Coulombe; Kathy Mercer

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prussell@uvic.ca; sdetreaux@gmail.com; mwilson@uvic.ca; coulombe@uvic.ca; kmercer@uvic.ca

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2019
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Into the Darkness: The Coal Mines of Nanaimo and Emerging Technical Services Work

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VIU Library has been working on a project to create meaningful ways for users to interact with a unique collection of audio interviews about Nanaimo’s coal mining past. To map the spoken word of coal miners and their families, tech services staff searched through interview transcripts for references to mines and then took steps to represent these mentions of historic sites on an interactive map. Not only did the project provide opportunities for us to venture “into the darkness” of increasingly technical new work, but it also helped to bring light to the stories of generations of local coal miners.
At VILSC in 2016, Dalys and Sarah were part of a crack team of VIU Library wizards presenting a "6-pack" of emerging work projects that developed new skills in our department. The coal mines map, then in its early days, was one of the projects featured. Three years later, we’re still adding the finishing touches, but we’ve learned a lot, and we’d like to share our experience.

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Dalys Barney & Sarah Ogden

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Dalys.Barney@viu.ca; sarah.ogden@viu.ca

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2019
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Kids and the Academic Library: Outreach to Families, Schools and Community Groups at UVic Libraries

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n the past five years, UVic Libraries has engaged children, families, and youth in an increasing variety of ways, as part of our strategic plan to be Open, Engaged, and Enduring.
We offer:

  • A community borrower's card and temporary netlink ID to provide access to our materials
  • high school class visits to the Libraries as part of our High School Outreach program
  • librarian visits to schools for engagements arranged through the Speakers' Bureau
  • librarian support for middle and high school Heritage Fair Projects
  • family-friendly events such as our "Book Arts Interactive" event at Ideafest 2018
  • collaboration with faculty members on public speakers' series such as "Treasures and Tea"
  • Youth Summer Camps oriented to university study, such as TextBytes
  • opportunity for community contributions to our collection decisions, as has been the case with our Transgender Archives
  • Direct engagement with community groups such as the Canadian Book Artists' and Bookbinders' Guild 

This panel will draw together a number of UVic librarians to describe these efforts and get into the why and how of what has made this work successful.

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Heather Dean, J. Matthew Huculak, Tina Bebbington & Michael Lines

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hdean@uvic.ca; huculak@uvic.ca; bebbingt@uvic.ca; mlines@uvic.ca

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2019
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Literacy First: How Organizations on the Saanich Peninsula Come Together to Support Literacy and Lifelong Learning

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The Open Air Library: A Community Program The Open Air Library, the Saanich Peninsula Literacy task group’s signature program, takes reading outside and is a fun summer community event that celebrates literacy. Behind the scenes is a growing exchange of collaboration and communication across multiple literacy organizations. Reflecting on five years of collaboration points to the continuous need for literacy organizations to work alongside one another.
Two Libraries, One Peninsula Public Libraries share a common goal of promoting literacy and lifelong learning. The Saanich Peninsula is served by two public libraries that find fun and exciting ways to work together and best serve their communities. Reflecting on five years of collaboration points to how libraries have moved outside of their spaces to build community.
Growing Readers Together Supporting literacy, growing minds, providing resources and tools to flourish and learn – public libraries and schools share similar goals but often work in isolation. Reflecting on past collaboration shows us that one good thing leads to another and points to where we will be five years from now.
Presented by Saanich Peninsula Literacy Task Group, Greater Victoria Public Library and South Island Distance Edcuation School

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Shantael Sleight, Saanich Peninsula Literacy Task Group; Sarah Harrison, GVPL; Darcy McNee & Patty Golumbia, SIDES

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sharrison@gvpl.ca; darcymcnee@saanichschools.ca

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2019
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The Scoop on Open Access Monograph Double Dipping

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In this presentation, Kehoe and Boudinot will share the findings of their research on “double dipping” occurring in the ebook marketplace. A number of well known and fringe publishers with Open Access (OA) ebook publishing models are offering these titles freely on their own publisher platforms, as well as for sale on third party aggregator platforms. This publisher practice has implications for library budgets, approval plan ordering, authors, and vendor relations. Strategies will be shared on how to identify “double dipping” publishers, how to block OA titles from approval, and questions to ask when you are reviewing publishers’ OA publication agreements.

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David Boudinot & Inba Kehoe

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boudinot@uvic.ca; ikehoe@uvic.ca

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2019
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Study Leave Explorations: 3D Modeling; Citizen Science; Research Data Knowledge Mobilization Through Art

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Three topics were the focus of my study leave activities: 3D modelling of specimen collections, citizen science in the sciences, and science data visualization by artists. All three topics are interconnected by the overarching framework of science data. My first goal was to experience the research data life cycle by creating a 3D data set of botanical specimens and thus explore issues around data creation, metadata, data description, data deposit, data sharing & access. A second goal was to explore the role citizen scientists play in collecting and working with scientific data. A third goal was to explore how artists are engaged in artistic visualizations of science data and knowledge mobilization.

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Kathleen Matthews

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kmatthew@uvic.ca

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2019
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Dancing in the Library: Making Art, Building Community and Empowering Girlsli

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The Celebrating Girls Celebrating Community program, offered in partnership with Island Health and Hannah Beach of Dandelion Dance, was a long-term program designed to increase the confidence and self-efficacy of teen girls in the Nanaimo community. Between October 2017 and May 2018, a total of 11 girls participated in the project; 6 followed all the way through with the planning, choreographing, and performing of a full length dance performance inspired by their social justice passions and the ways they see themselves in the world. This program gave a group of teens who had never danced - or spent much time in the library! - a safe space to learn how to express themselves, a deep and continuing connection with their library, and a platform from which to create real and meaningful change in their community

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Caitlin Ottenbreit

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cottonbreit@virl.bc.ca

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2019
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The Transgender Archives: Past, Present and Future

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The University of Victoria Libraries is home to the world’s largest Transgender Archives (TGA). We are exceptional in our focus, size, and scope when compared to other archives in that our collections are explicitly dedicated to the preservation of the original documents recording the history of pioneering activists, community leaders, and researchers who have contributed to the betterment of trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people. In this presentation, Lara Wilson and Michael Radmacher will discuss the past, present, and future of the Transgender Archives. They will answer questions such as: How did the TGA start at UVic? What unique and one-of-a-kind materials are housed at the TGA? What new collections have been recently donated? What are the TGA's current and future projects related to community outreach, accessibility, and digitization? Lastly, this presentation will offer a hands-on experience with a selection of the TGA’s rare materials. Come put your hands on hirstory.

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Michael Radmacher & Lara Wilson

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mikerad@uvic.ca; ljwilson@uvic.ca

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2019
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From Blasting to Bridging: Building Electronic Resource Management

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Electronic resource issues can be complex to fix, and electronic resource management requires tracking a lot of information from many different silos. Patricia Pang and Sue Bengtson will talk about some challenges and discuss how unexpected implications of a new system demanded a larger conversation about cross-unit collaboration.

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Patricia Pang & Sue Bengtson

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ppang@uvic.ca; suebeng@uvic.ca

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2019
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