How to Get Good Search Results

Description

A program that introduces patrons to searching the resources at the library and how to perform a search that will yield accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive sources.
Source Library

Program promotional materials

Length of program session

30-60 minutes

Number of sessions

1

Frequency

Quarterly

Presenter(s)

Lyndsay Forsythe @ Nelson Public Library
Audience

Primary Audience

Adults
Program Audience
Resources

Community partners

Community Futures Nelson BC
Evaluation
Program Format

Intersections with open knowledge: Wikidata at UVic Libraries

Description

Wikidata is a global collaboratively-edited knowledge base created by the Wikimedia Foundation. It was launched in 2012 to contain structured data (in the form of linked data) for use in other Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. This presentation will outline how Wikidata has been used in GLAM institutions around the world, how UVic Libraries has begun to integrate it into its archival and library metadata workflow, and discuss benefits and challenges related to Wikidata involvement.

Author

Elizabeth Bassett, Heather Dean, Dean Seeman

Author E-Mail

hdean@uvic.ca

Conference Year

2021
Materials
Source Library
Presentation Format

Creating a search portal to BC government documents

Description

The session is an overview of the systems team’s implementation of a full-text search discovery platform for our online BC Government Publications collection using VuFind.

Author

Louise Brittain Boisvert

Author E-Mail

Louise.Boisvert@leg.bc.ca

Conference Year

2021
Materials
Presentation Format
PDF

Representation & visualization: Building a discovery tool for the Transgender Archives

Description

In order to build and maintain a healthy community, members need to understand their past. The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries is home to the world's largest collection of trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse history. In December 2019, we proudly launched an online discovery tool to search our collection of publications, which include articles written by trailblazing community members, and historical events that shaped trans activism and history. In this presentation, Michael Radmacher (MLIS, MA) and Shahira Khair (M.Sc, MIS) will tell the story of this project, and will offer a demonstration of the new discovery tool.

Author

Michael Radmacher; Shahira Khair

Author E-Mail

mikerad@uvic.ca

Conference Year

2021
Materials
Source Library
Presentation Topic
Presentation Format
PDF