Libraries

In 2004 the University of Victoria Libraries housed over 7000 theses in Special Collections and over 1000 in their circulating collection; it was also the year that they launched their digital repository.
This is a story about the evolution and transformation of the traditional print thesis as viewed through the changing lens of the University of Victoria's Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertation process.
Learn about UVic's successes and challenges hosting a repository and find out how it transformed access to this important academic library resource.

In support of BC’s new curriculum, Pacific Opera Victoria, Royal BC Museum and the Greater Victoria Public Library offered a day-long pro-d opportunity for high school, middle school and elementary school teachers. Experts from each institution provided practical tools and ideas to encourage children and teens to think critically about what they view, read, and hear. This panel will discuss how we collaborated to create the event, the benefits to GLAM partnership programming, and what we learned.

A presentation from MLA in 2010 on how we nearly doubled Public use and support for the library.

The Library as a Tourism hub for the community. By building partnerships the community library can raise their profile in the community/with funders and better serve tourists,

Librarians & Library staff are often expected to negotiate and advise in a complicated copyright landscape. As non-lawyers, we can’t give you legal advice, but as copyright practitioners we have tons of practical experience and insight we will share with active learning exercises sprinkled throughout. From copyright basics in a new light, to ways to talk copyright to patrons and stakeholders, this workshop is designed to get everyone, no matter their experience, more comfortable with copyright issues. We will also give up-to-the-minute updates on what is happening with copyright in Canada (it is a busy year!), copyright advocacy, and will involve a number of people from different library types to contribute to the conversation.

Inclusion statements: what are they and why do they matter? Learn about the Calgary Public Library’s journey in thinking about, talking about and developing an inclusion statement, and what it can mean for the library’s daily work.

Presentation delivered at the Alberta Library Conference 2018 in Jasper, AB.
Communities all over Alberta are seeing an increase in self-represented litigants due to the recession and the high cost of legal representation. This means that more people are coming to libraries to access information about the law and their legal rights. Like libraries, public legal education organizations like CPLEA work to provide the public with reliable sources of information. Searching for legal information tends to be very reaction-driven (i.e. my landlord is evicting me; my partner and I are separating, etc.). By standing together, we can empower Albertans to know and assert their rights before a legal dispute arises. For more information about the Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta (CPLEA) or to access free legal information resources, visit www.cplea.ca.