Van Halen’s image and sound during the rock band’s prime years 1978-1984 can be seen as cultural artefacts informing our understanding of American mythology and self-image. Illustrated by reference to key images, this paper ...

Presentation from June 2007 BC Research Libraries Group workshop on Scholarly Communication.

Workshops are effective tools for introducing makerspace technologies. Active-learning workshops where face-to-face time is spent working on projects are well received by students, especially non-engineering students. ...

The British Columbia Research Libraries Group (BCRLG) struck a task group, in conjunction with the Legislative Library of British Columbia (LLBC), in spring 2010, to identify and investigate means of digitizing historical ...

Describes a series of interrelated projects undertaken by the author during a study leave running January-June 2016, intended to build the Libraries' capacity to work productively with digital artifacts from earlier computing ...

This session will attempt to give you an overview of the back room detail of building virtual collections. In this half hour I would like to present important issues to consider when building virtual collections. By the ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of post-secondary institutions in British Columbia remained closed for a prolonged period, and volume on the provincial consortia chat service, AskAway, increased significantly. ...

Franco-Europe’s massively popular comic book series Lucky Luke may be read, among others, as a postwar text, a cold-war text, or the authors’ love letter to America. But the creation of these albums can also be studied ...

The wonderful thing about the internet is that anyone can publish on the web; but, total access facilitation does not make everyone an expert! Unlike books and journals that the library purchases, web resources rarely have ...