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Item VILSC 2024 Opening and Keynote(2024) Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference (VILSC)A recording of the opening of the 2024 Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference, including an Elders' welcome from Dr. Skip Dick of Songhees Nation and May Sam of Lhumlhumuluts and a keynote talk by Lorcan Dempsey from the University of Washington: "Libraries and AI: Managing the messy middle."Item Open Educational Resources (OER) Showcase(2024) University of Victoria LibrariesThis event, which took place on March 7, 2024, was in celebration of Open Education Week 2024. It was a panel discussion between UVic authors who have created open textbooks. After the panel discussion, there was an opportunity for informal discussion over some light refreshments. This was a hybrid event, taking place in the Digital Scholarship Commons and over Zoom. The panellists were Dr. Rosalie Starzomski (Nursing), Natalie Boldt (English), and Dr. Lijun Zhang (Economics). The event was organized by the Copyright and Scholarly Communications Office at the University of Victoria Libraries.Item VILSC 2022 Opening and Keynote(2024-01-09) Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference (VILSC)A recording of the opening of the 2022 Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference, including a Welcome and Blessing from Tsartlip Elder and UVic Elder in Residence May Sam and a keynote talk by Shelagh Rogers and Leslie Weir.Item VILSC 2023 Opening and Keynote(2023-12-14) Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference (VILSC)A recording of the opening of the 2023 Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference: Let's Talk Belonging, including an Elder's Welcome from Kathy and Doug Lafortune, awarding Dave Obee with the designation of Honorary Librarian and Archivist, and a keynote talk by Pilar Martinez and Maureen Sawa.Item University Librarian's Lecture: 'You don't like those ideas? I got others!'*(2023-06-19) Denham, Elizabeth; Kahle, Brewster; Khokhar, Masud; Ridley, MichaelThe emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), social media, and quantum computing is fundamentally transforming the way we process and understand information, and will have far-reaching implications for human culture and society. This panel of distinguished international experts will explore the shining lights and dark shadows of AI, quantum technologies, and social media platforms. The panel will explore the need for developers and policymakers to prioritize ethical considerations in the development and deployment of these technologies and strategies to combat the spread of misinformation. They will also discuss the ethical implications of these technologies, particularly in terms of privacy and bias as we navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of information technology. Moderated by Dave Obee. *The title of this event is inspired by a quote from Marshall McLuhan from the lecture The Medium Is the Message (1977) part 1, volume 3.Item University Librarian's Lecture: Truth and Healing through Story-telling: Indigenous Podcasting(2022-10-11) Walker, ConnieCritically acclaimed Cree journalist from Okanese First Nation and one of the most important voices in podcasting today, Connie Walker will discuss the work behind her podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s (2022), the process of understanding the effects of the residential school system on her family, her team’s struggles in getting access to residential school records, and why she decided now was the time to tell this story.Item Building better 'Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum Labs’(2019-03-07) Mahey, MahendraThe British Library is one of the largest national libraries in the world and is creating and storing millions of digital items every year. Mahendra Mahey, the British Library Labs Manager, gives an overview of digital collections and data being made available through BL Labs and examines how some of them have been re-used by making connections and collaborating with digital researchers, artists, entrepreneurs, educators, curators and librarians around the world through a range of innovative projects, research questions and engagement activities. He highlights the myths and assumptions many make about libraries and address the significant issues and challenges they face when working with digital collections and data. He reflects on lessons he has learned over nearly two decades of working in higher education, suggesting the types of digital research that could benefit the way libraries may work into the future. To conclude, Mahendra reports on an exciting international support network that he has started to build with colleagues around the world. This community is bringing national, state, university and public Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums together that are planning experimental digital ‘GLAM Labs’ which encourage their users to re-use their digital collections and data.Item Surveying the Landscape: Research Data Management, Data Governance and Ethics(2018-02-16) Quinless, JacquelineIn 2015, the Canadian government via science.gc.ca released the Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management. Canada has joined many other countries at the forefront of this movement, as shown in its support for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Declaration on Access to Research Data from Public Funding (2004); its commitment to the Open Government Declaration (2011); and its approval of the G8 Science Ministers Statement (2013). The history of the collection of data on Indigenous people across the globe has been a problematic because of the methods which have failed to capture important differences relating to differing Indigenous peoples and communities and also in the way the data is processed, analyzed and disseminated. The 94 recommendations of the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission have generated responses at the federal government level as well as educational institutions regarding how to address the impacts of residential schools. Several post-secondary institutions, including UBC, UVic and Simon Fraser University, and others across the country are sharing their priorities with regards to their Indigenous plans and curriculum changes relating to the TRC recommendations. How is this linked to academic libraries, data curation, and research data management? This presentation will draw on a 2017-2018 campus wide research study at the University of Victoria Libraries and Office of the VP Research to discuss Research Data Management and challenges to open sharing. The conversation will explore topics related to data curation and data management, open access, and practices that are both ethically and culturally informed in the context of Indigenous protocols and data initiatives. Dr. Jacqueline Quinless is currently a CLIR Data Curation Fellow at UVic Libraries and works in Digital Scholarship and Strategy at the University of Victoria. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and an award winning sociologist recognized by the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) and Angus-Reid Foundation for her community-based research to advancing Human Welfare in Canada. CLIR Data Curation Fellow at UVic LibrariesItem Subject Librarian 2.0: Preparing Liaison Librarians for 21st Century Academic Environments(2016-10-04) Williams, KarenKaren Williams will be speaking about how the University of Minnesota Libraries has begun the process of redefining liaison librarian roles to better prepare subject librarians for 21st century academic environments. She will outline emerging roles, discuss the skills needed to fulfill those roles, and showcase University of Minnesota’s approach to transitioning liaison roles that better reflects current research environments and anticipates future academic environments. Karen Williams is Associate University Librarian for Academic Programs at the University of Minnesota, a position she has held since late 2004. Prior to that, she spent 22 years at the University of Arizona Library in a variety of positions, including subject liaison to several departments. She led the development of new liaison position descriptions at Minnesota, which include roles in scholarly communication, information literacy integration, and digital tool developmentItem Field Study Findings on Faculty & Researcher Use of New Models of Scholarly Publishing & Communication(2016-10-04) Hahn, KarlaIn the Spring of 2008, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) engaged Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization promoting innovation in academia, to conduct an investigation into the range of new models of scholarly publishing and communication valued by scholars, with a particular focus on those works that are pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional formats and are considered innovative by the faculty who use them. A field team of 301 librarians at 46 institutions interviewed professors about the digital resources they use. Among the key findings and works Karla Hahn, Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at ARL, will describe include: •Evidence that innovative digital resources can be found across the humanities, social sciences, and scientific/technical/medical subject areas. •Almost every resource cited by faculty operates under some form of peer review or editorial oversight. •Some the resources with greatest impact are those that have been around a long while. •Many digital publications are capable of running on relatively small budgets and are tailored to small, niche audiences. •Innovations relating to multimedia content and Web 2.0 functionality appear in some cases to blur the lines between resource types. •Projects of all sizes, especially open access sites and publications, employ a range of support strategies in the search for financial sustainability. The findings were published in November 2008 and titled: “Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication - Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries:” http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/current-models-report.pdfItem Interview - Peter Keller(2014-02-05) Keller, C. Peter2013 interview with Professor Peter Keller on open accessItem The lion and the fox: Art and literary works by Wyndham Lewis from the C.J. Fox Collection(University of Victoria Libraries, 2009) Lewis, Wyndham; Fox, C.J. (Cyril James); Russell, DanielleThis exhibition presents the Wyndham Lewis portion of the University of Victoria’s overall C.J. Fox Collection. The title, The Lion and the Fox, is meant to indicate a duality between Lewis as subject and myself as collector. It will be familiar to Lewis readers as the title of his 1927 book about the influence of Machiavelli on Shakespeare.1 That spirited study, which revealed as much about its author as it did about Shakespeare, echoes Machiavelli’s argument that the successful ruler must be a blend of the leonine on the one hand, and the vulpine, on the other. To Lewis’s mind, it was the very lack of essential “foxian” guile that gave Shakespearean giants like Coriolanus, Timon and Othello their tragic magnificence as against the small and crooked “men of the world.”Item Interview - Ray Siemens(2013-07-25) Siemens, Ray2013 interview with Professor Ray Siemens on open accessItem Interview - Daniel Scott(2013-07-02) Scott, Daniel2013 interview with Professor Daniel Scott on open accessItem Item Interview - Howard Brunt(2013-07-02) Brunt, Howard2013 interview with UVic VP Research Howard Brunt on open accessItem Do You Understand What Open Access Publishing Can Do For You?(2012-12-03)The panelists discuss how open access publishing can significantly boost the visibility and impact of research, as well as the perceived or common misunderstanding/myths around open access publishing. Moderator: Jonathan Bengtson, University Librarian, University of Victoria. Panel members: Lynne Herndon, Senior Vice-President, Global Academic Relations, Elsevier; Laura Brown, Licensing Manager, Springer; Jim Gilden, Editor, SAGE Open Sales, Sage; Bob Schatz, North American Sales Manager, BioMED Central; Dr. Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English with cross appointment in Computer Science; Dr. Mary Ellen Purkis, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria; and, Dr. Frank van Veggel, Professor, Canada Research Chair, Supramolecular Photonic Materials, University of Victoria.Item Scholarly Editing: Open Access Editions Online(2011-10-31) Crompton, ConstanceOnline publication challenges our notion of the scholarly edition in a number of ways: the resulting editions require teamwork to produce, can be perpetually updated, and open up new avenues of collaboration with users. Drawing on examples from the Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES), The Yellow Nineties Online, and the Devonshire Manuscript: A Social Edition, Constance Crompton discusses role of open access online editions in the changing shape of humanities scholarship.Item Plantiniana: humanist grafts in Special Collections(2011-04-01T18:39:37Z) Cazes, HélèneChristopher Plantin (1520-1589) could be presented as the epitome of Renaissance humanist printers. Born in France, exiled in the Low Countries and settled in Antwerp, he lived at the crossroads of religions and national allegiances. He founded a dynasty of learned editors and publishers. An avid book collector, Charles Seghers secured several publications from the Plantin’s Presses, now kept in Special Collections, McPherson Library.Item Special Collections, special books, and special readers(2011-04-01T18:38:06Z) Cazes, HélèneThis lecture gives a “guided tour” of a selection of mini-collections within Special Collections: history of medicine, Bibles, discovery of the Americas and Amer-Indian religions, and Aldine editions of modern dictionaries. Leafing through the pages of some of the most precious books in Special Collections will introduce us to scholars, collectors, pious owners, bibliophiles, as well as to bored and undisciplined scribblers using the margins of books for penmanship training.