Issue 1: The Collaboration Issue

After the inspiring Outreach Issue in December 2018, we're excited to follow-up with a look at collaboration in the library world. This issue’s contributors have demonstrated that collaborative initiatives can challenge us to grow as professionals and expand our...

Since its inception in 2016, the Digitized Okanagan History project (https://doh.arcabc.ca) has enabled repositories throughout the Okanagan and adjacent regions to participate in an initiative to provide online access to digitized copies of their unique historical...

In March 2018, West Vancouver Memorial Library opened The Lab – a dedicated digital learning space for learners of all ages.  In doing so our capacity to offer programs expanded dramatically – from a few programs a month to 1-3 programs per day.  It also marked the...

In March 2017, the BC Museums Association, Archives Association of BC and the BC Library Association signed an MOU agreeing to work together under a shared set of values. This was a historic event, the first time in Canada that GLAM sector organizations formally...

In March it will be two years since the AABC, BCMA and BCLA signed a BC GLAM MOU, which committed the three organizations to collaborate together and recognized the shared values the organizations and their members uphold across the sector. The central objectives of...

For the past year and a half I have had the privilege of representing BCLA on the Board of Directors of PovNet and thought it time to share out some information about this most remarkable organization with which we are associated. What is PovNet? PovNet is a...

The BC Digital Library (originally referred to as the Provincial Digital Library or PDL) is an idea and a proof-of-concept that has been in active discussion among BC GLAM sector members since 2015. From the beginning, the vision for BCDL was to create a resource and...

Why a learning festival? Learning festivals have been held around the world, from Singapore to Scotland, for different reasons. ATD Fourth World (All Together in Dignity to Overcome Poverty) supports festivals of learning as a means of bringing ideas and educational...

Do you have a background in journalism? Experience editing the writings of others? Have you written content for your organization’s newsletter or website? Worked in scholarly communications and publishing?  We’re looking for someone to join the editorial team of BCLA...

The University of British Columbia Library has had strengths in classic and canonical children’s literature since the mid-1960s when UBC’s graduating class of 1925 donated the exceptional Alice One Hundred Collection to the Library’s Rare Books and Special...