Everybody’s business: The benefits, barriers, and best practices of building deeper connections with business

A summary of the BC Library Conference 2013 session “Everybody’s business: The benefits, barriers, and best practices of building deeper connections with business,” led by Mark Bodnar & Aleha McCauley.&nbsp

Institutional Repository Digital Object Metadata Enhancement and Re-architecting

We present work undertaken at our institutional repository to enhance metadata and re-organize digital objects according to new information architecture, in an effort to minimize administrative object management and processing, and improve object discovery and use. This work was partly motivated by the launch of a new discovery platform at our institution, which aggregates metadata and full text from our four open access repositories into a cohesive, consistent, and enhanced searching and browsing experience. The platform provides digital object identifier (DOI) assignment, metadata access via various formats, and an open metadata and full text application program interface (API) for researchers, amongst other features. Functionality of these platform features relies heavily on accurate object representation and metadata. This work facilitates and improves the discovery and engagement of the diverse digital objects available from our institution, so they can be used and analyzed in new, flexible, and innovative ways by a myriad of communities and disciplines.Library, UBCReviewedFacult

In Search of Nursing's History

The 2018 Nursing History Symposium offered an exciting opportunity to explore new and existing resources in nursing history on campus and beyond. New digital projects, archival, special and photograph collections as well as artifacts relevant to nursing history were displayed, presented and discussed. Opening by Geertje Boschma and Katherine Miller. Welcome by Aleteia Greenwood. Panel moderated by Geertje Boschma and included: Preserving Nursing and Health History in a Time of Digitization and Open Collections, by Amber Saundry and Larissa Ringham; Archival Records and Nursing History by Krisztina Laszlo; Archiving Networks of Support by Claire Williams; Records and Collections on Nursing History in UBC Archives by Erwin Wodarczak; and Digital Collections from a User Perspective by Helen Vandenberg.Applied Science, Faculty ofArts, Faculty ofLibrary, UBCNon UBCLibrary, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School ofNursing, School ofUnreviewedFacultyGraduat