Kula: Library Futures Academy

Positioned at the intersection of disciplines, university libraries are ideally situated to collaborate with Faculties, Research Offices, centers, and academic support services. Libraries facilitate collaboration and engagement across domains, creating unique opportunities to address global issues, integrate new technologies to enhance scholarly processes, promote innovation, and advance the university’s mission.

UVic Libraries’ Kula: Library Futures Academy exemplifies this role as a transdisciplinary collider space, incubator of innovative ideas, and test bed for new technologies, methods, and practices in research.

The Kula Academy acknowledges the evolving role of the academic library in university research by leveraging creative scholarship and imaginative thinking to positively impact people and the planet. It explores the foundational, historical, and theoretical intersections of technology and knowledge production in human culture and society.

We celebrate and promote the joy and power of collaborative research and learning at local, regional, national, and international levels. Librarians, archivists, and library staff work alongside faculty, researchers, students, staff, and community and industry thought leaders to this end.