DECEMBER 15, 2020
Schedule
12pm EST (9am PST; 10am MST; 11am CST; 1pm AST; 1:30 NST)
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Vicki Whitmell, Legislative Assembly of Ontario
12:15 EST (9:15 am PST; 10:15 am MST; 11:15 am CST; 1:15 pm AST; 1:45 NST)
Plenary Session: Imagining a 21st Century Digital Government Information Library
James Jacobs, US Government Librarian, Stanford University
This talk will call attention to the urgent need to build a digital government information library that connects the public with localities, states, provinces and countries as we face global crises. We will explore and imagine the library for which we should strive toward as well as consider the hurdles to making this a reality.
1pm EST (10am PST; 11am MST; 12pm CST; 2pm AST; 2:30pm NST)
Information Bootcamp
Melissa Fraser-Arnott, Library of Parliament. Co-Presenters: Janet Bennett, Library of Parliament, Kirsten Clement, Library of Parliament
This session offers an introduction to Canadian parliamentary information resources for library workers. The session’s objectives are: (1) To introduce Canadian parliamentary information resources in the context of the work of parliament for students and library workers, and researchers; (2) To identify key information sources that will be relevant to answering library and research questions; (3) To offer tips on how to access and search parliamentary and related government information materials; and (4) To outline ways in which parliamentary information resources can be incorporated into research projects.
1:30 pm EST (10:30 am PST; 11:30 am MST; 12:30 pm CST; 2:30 pm AST; 3pm NST)
Break
1:45 EST (10:45 am PST; 11:45 am MST; 12:45 pm CST; 2:45 pm AST; 3:15 pm NST)
Lightning Talks
Going Mad with “Power Platform”
David Cumming, Legislative Assembly of Ontario
This session will focus on the value of Microsoft’s Power Platform, specifically PowerBI, for using familiar information in the middle of a pandemic.
Creating a Search Portal for BC Government Publications
Louise Brittain Boisvert, Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
This session is an overview of the BC Legislative Library's systems team’s implementation of a full-text search discovery platform for its online BC Government Publications collection using VuFind.
Crowdsourcing Metadata for a Government Information Collection: Canadian Think Tank on Scholars Portal Book Platform
Ravit H David, University of Toronto
We can all think of at least one government information collection that we wish we could make available online. We have the PDFs but we don't have enough metadata to go with. We don't have a nice home for these PDFs. What can we do about it? Using the Canadian Think Tank collection as a use case, this short talk will discuss workflows for crowdsourcing metadata and some innovative methods to extract metadata from PDFs in order to make more government content available to our stakeholders.
2:15 EST (10:15 am PST; 12:15 pm MST; 1:15 pm CST; 3:15pm AST; 3:45pm NST)
Updates from the Ontario Legislative Library
Julie Anderson, Yasuko Enosawa and Sandra Craig, Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Updates on the Ontario Legislative Library's ISBN/ISSN service, Ontario Government Publication Monthly Checklist service, and the use of broad subject headings.
12pm EST (9am PST; 10am MST; 11am CST; 1pm AST; 1:30 NST)
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Vicki Whitmell, Legislative Assembly of Ontario
12:15 EST (9:15 am PST; 10:15 am MST; 11:15 am CST; 1:15 pm AST; 1:45 NST)
Plenary Session: Imagining a 21st Century Digital Government Information Library
James Jacobs, US Government Librarian, Stanford University
This talk will call attention to the urgent need to build a digital government information library that connects the public with localities, states, provinces and countries as we face global crises. We will explore and imagine the library for which we should strive toward as well as consider the hurdles to making this a reality.
1pm EST (10am PST; 11am MST; 12pm CST; 2pm AST; 2:30pm NST)
Information Bootcamp
Melissa Fraser-Arnott, Library of Parliament. Co-Presenters: Janet Bennett, Library of Parliament, Kirsten Clement, Library of Parliament
This session offers an introduction to Canadian parliamentary information resources for library workers. The session’s objectives are: (1) To introduce Canadian parliamentary information resources in the context of the work of parliament for students and library workers, and researchers; (2) To identify key information sources that will be relevant to answering library and research questions; (3) To offer tips on how to access and search parliamentary and related government information materials; and (4) To outline ways in which parliamentary information resources can be incorporated into research projects.
1:30 pm EST (10:30 am PST; 11:30 am MST; 12:30 pm CST; 2:30 pm AST; 3pm NST)
Break
1:45 EST (10:45 am PST; 11:45 am MST; 12:45 pm CST; 2:45 pm AST; 3:15 pm NST)
Lightning Talks
Going Mad with “Power Platform”
David Cumming, Legislative Assembly of Ontario
This session will focus on the value of Microsoft’s Power Platform, specifically PowerBI, for using familiar information in the middle of a pandemic.
Creating a Search Portal for BC Government Publications
Louise Brittain Boisvert, Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
This session is an overview of the BC Legislative Library's systems team’s implementation of a full-text search discovery platform for its online BC Government Publications collection using VuFind.
Crowdsourcing Metadata for a Government Information Collection: Canadian Think Tank on Scholars Portal Book Platform
Ravit H David, University of Toronto
We can all think of at least one government information collection that we wish we could make available online. We have the PDFs but we don't have enough metadata to go with. We don't have a nice home for these PDFs. What can we do about it? Using the Canadian Think Tank collection as a use case, this short talk will discuss workflows for crowdsourcing metadata and some innovative methods to extract metadata from PDFs in order to make more government content available to our stakeholders.
2:15 EST (10:15 am PST; 12:15 pm MST; 1:15 pm CST; 3:15pm AST; 3:45pm NST)
Updates from the Ontario Legislative Library
Julie Anderson, Yasuko Enosawa and Sandra Craig, Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Updates on the Ontario Legislative Library's ISBN/ISSN service, Ontario Government Publication Monthly Checklist service, and the use of broad subject headings.
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Schedule
12pm EST (9am PST; 10am MST; 11am CST; 1pm AST; 1:30 NST)
Plenary Session: Building Public Power Through Civic Technology
Bianca Wylie, Open Government Advocate
What does it look like to build more democratic and participatory technology? What have the last few years of data governance taught us about where to go next on issues of transparency, accountability, and control? What does it mean to have so much corporate power exerting itself on society, in public spheres such as education, health care, and city planning? Civic Technology policy offers a set of tactics and tools to improve public power and public technology, which we’ll talk about in this session.
12:45 pm EST (9:45 am PST; 10:45 am MST; 11:45 am CST; 1:45pm AST; 2:15 pm NST)
Old News: Delving into Legislative History with Ontario Scrapbook Hansard
Emily Dix, Legislative Assembly of Ontario
The Legislative Assembly of Ontario has digitized its Scrapbook Hansard collection and will soon make it publicly available online. This presentation will cover an introduction to Scrapbook Hansard and the transition to a digitized collection.
1:15 pm EST (10:15 am PST; 11:15 am MST; 12:15 pm CST; 2:15 pm AST; 2:45 pm NST)
Navigating, Documenting, and Contextualizing: How to Combat the COVID-19 Infodemic
Kaitlin Fuller, Sam-chin Li and Vincci Lui, University of Toronto
During a pandemic, the relationship between government information and academic literature is very intertwined – this is especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the University of Toronto Libraries, several strategies were used to connect users with trustworthy COVID-19 information. A page on COVID-19 within the Canadian Government Information research guide aims to provide information from different levels of government including the IGOs. Furthermore, a general information guide on COVID-19 was created and organized based on the variety of potential users (researchers, healthcare professionals, and the general public). This was created in combination with an interactive module that focused on how to critically consume COVID-19 biomedical information. This talk will discuss the usage of these resources, and also examine the challenges of creating and maintaining resources that capture an evolving landscape of information.
1:45 EST (10:45 am PST; 11:45 am MST; 12:45 pm CST; 2:45 pm AST; 3:15 pm NST)
Break
2pm EST (11am PST; 12pm MST; 1pm CST; 3pm AST; 3:30 pm NST)
Panel: Everything You Wanted to Know about Access and Preservation of Web Archives for Government Information But Were Afraid to Ask
Katie Cuyler, Corey Davis, Lori Donovan, Mireille Laforce, Susan Patterson and Tom Smyth
This panel session will explore the main challenges that web archiving practitioners have when it comes to access and preservation for web archives of government information. The panel will explore current tools in use for capture, access, and preservation across a number of different institutions, and explore what the future might hold as we struggle with issues of increasing scale. Lots of time will be available for questions and discussion with all participants.
2:45 EST (11:45 am PST; 12:45 pm MST; 1:45 pm CST; 3:45 pm AST; 4:15 pm NST)
Lightning Talks
Collecting Her-Stories during the Pandemic
Yoo Young Lee, Roxanne Lafleur and Satya Miller, University of Ottawa
As a home to the Women’s Archives, the University of Ottawa Library is working on a small scale pilot project to collect her-stories during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Traditionally, we wait until women donate their physical materials by the end of their career or life, but these days, they share and document their stories in a digital format which is fragile. In addition, history has often overlooked the experience of women and her-stories have been invisible. Therefore, we developed a website to actively ask women in Canada to share their stories to preserve their voice. In this lightning talk, we will address why we came up with this pilot project, how and what tools we used to create our site (Omeka), and how we digitally preserve and archive this born-digital material (BagIt, Archivematica, Ontario Library Research Cloud), and where users can access her-stories online (AtoM archives database)
Documenting COVID-19 in Ontario with Web Archiving
Renee Saucier, Archives of Ontario and Nich Worby, University of Toronto
Since March 2020, the University of Toronto Libraries and Archives of Ontario have been collaborating to build a web archive to document the impact of COVID-19 in Ontario. The University of Toronto began the collection with a focus on the city of Toronto, and, with the support of the Archives of Ontario, has expanded it to a provincial scope. The collection currently contains over 1,000 discrete URLs (including the web content of municipalities, provincial political parties, public health units, unions and labour associations, and the Government of Ontario web sphere), as well as several dozen Government of Ontario social media accounts. This lightning talk will outline the genesis of the collection, its development over the past seven months, the tools used, and the challenges faced thus far.
When Online Instruction is no Longer Just an Option: the Reality of Creating Reusable Government Information Videos During the Pandemic
Rebekah Glendinning and Sam-chin Li, University of Toronto
What happens when a two-hour, content heavy, library instruction workshop that covers all levels of government information needs to be taught online during the pandemic? You take the opportunity to create 18 reusable instructional government information videos over the span of a few weeks, of course! Our talk will go over the creative process, the decisions made, and the results of our challenging, stressful, yet rewarding experience creating instructional government information videos.
COVID-19 Community Newspapers
Renee Saucier, Archivist at the Archives of Ontario and Ravit H David, University of Toronto
This project is a collaborative effort between the Archives of Ontario and Scholars Portal, OCUL to collect and preserve COVID-19 content from a selection of Ontario newspapers using Archive-It. Local media outlets offer an important lens into local experiences of the pandemic in diverse communities across Ontario. Articles, local statistics, public comment -- all of these resources will be important for current and future study of the pandemic and its effect on Ontarians. The collaboration with Scholars Portal focuses on approximately 120 newspapers not currently being archived by other web archiving initiatives, prioritizing locally-focused news content over provincial, federal, and international coverage on the basis of higher risk of permanent loss of that material.
12pm EST (9am PST; 10am MST; 11am CST; 1pm AST; 1:30 NST)
Plenary Session: Building Public Power Through Civic Technology
Bianca Wylie, Open Government Advocate
What does it look like to build more democratic and participatory technology? What have the last few years of data governance taught us about where to go next on issues of transparency, accountability, and control? What does it mean to have so much corporate power exerting itself on society, in public spheres such as education, health care, and city planning? Civic Technology policy offers a set of tactics and tools to improve public power and public technology, which we’ll talk about in this session.
12:45 pm EST (9:45 am PST; 10:45 am MST; 11:45 am CST; 1:45pm AST; 2:15 pm NST)
Old News: Delving into Legislative History with Ontario Scrapbook Hansard
Emily Dix, Legislative Assembly of Ontario
The Legislative Assembly of Ontario has digitized its Scrapbook Hansard collection and will soon make it publicly available online. This presentation will cover an introduction to Scrapbook Hansard and the transition to a digitized collection.
1:15 pm EST (10:15 am PST; 11:15 am MST; 12:15 pm CST; 2:15 pm AST; 2:45 pm NST)
Navigating, Documenting, and Contextualizing: How to Combat the COVID-19 Infodemic
Kaitlin Fuller, Sam-chin Li and Vincci Lui, University of Toronto
During a pandemic, the relationship between government information and academic literature is very intertwined – this is especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the University of Toronto Libraries, several strategies were used to connect users with trustworthy COVID-19 information. A page on COVID-19 within the Canadian Government Information research guide aims to provide information from different levels of government including the IGOs. Furthermore, a general information guide on COVID-19 was created and organized based on the variety of potential users (researchers, healthcare professionals, and the general public). This was created in combination with an interactive module that focused on how to critically consume COVID-19 biomedical information. This talk will discuss the usage of these resources, and also examine the challenges of creating and maintaining resources that capture an evolving landscape of information.
1:45 EST (10:45 am PST; 11:45 am MST; 12:45 pm CST; 2:45 pm AST; 3:15 pm NST)
Break
2pm EST (11am PST; 12pm MST; 1pm CST; 3pm AST; 3:30 pm NST)
Panel: Everything You Wanted to Know about Access and Preservation of Web Archives for Government Information But Were Afraid to Ask
Katie Cuyler, Corey Davis, Lori Donovan, Mireille Laforce, Susan Patterson and Tom Smyth
This panel session will explore the main challenges that web archiving practitioners have when it comes to access and preservation for web archives of government information. The panel will explore current tools in use for capture, access, and preservation across a number of different institutions, and explore what the future might hold as we struggle with issues of increasing scale. Lots of time will be available for questions and discussion with all participants.
2:45 EST (11:45 am PST; 12:45 pm MST; 1:45 pm CST; 3:45 pm AST; 4:15 pm NST)
Lightning Talks
Collecting Her-Stories during the Pandemic
Yoo Young Lee, Roxanne Lafleur and Satya Miller, University of Ottawa
As a home to the Women’s Archives, the University of Ottawa Library is working on a small scale pilot project to collect her-stories during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Traditionally, we wait until women donate their physical materials by the end of their career or life, but these days, they share and document their stories in a digital format which is fragile. In addition, history has often overlooked the experience of women and her-stories have been invisible. Therefore, we developed a website to actively ask women in Canada to share their stories to preserve their voice. In this lightning talk, we will address why we came up with this pilot project, how and what tools we used to create our site (Omeka), and how we digitally preserve and archive this born-digital material (BagIt, Archivematica, Ontario Library Research Cloud), and where users can access her-stories online (AtoM archives database)
Documenting COVID-19 in Ontario with Web Archiving
Renee Saucier, Archives of Ontario and Nich Worby, University of Toronto
Since March 2020, the University of Toronto Libraries and Archives of Ontario have been collaborating to build a web archive to document the impact of COVID-19 in Ontario. The University of Toronto began the collection with a focus on the city of Toronto, and, with the support of the Archives of Ontario, has expanded it to a provincial scope. The collection currently contains over 1,000 discrete URLs (including the web content of municipalities, provincial political parties, public health units, unions and labour associations, and the Government of Ontario web sphere), as well as several dozen Government of Ontario social media accounts. This lightning talk will outline the genesis of the collection, its development over the past seven months, the tools used, and the challenges faced thus far.
When Online Instruction is no Longer Just an Option: the Reality of Creating Reusable Government Information Videos During the Pandemic
Rebekah Glendinning and Sam-chin Li, University of Toronto
What happens when a two-hour, content heavy, library instruction workshop that covers all levels of government information needs to be taught online during the pandemic? You take the opportunity to create 18 reusable instructional government information videos over the span of a few weeks, of course! Our talk will go over the creative process, the decisions made, and the results of our challenging, stressful, yet rewarding experience creating instructional government information videos.
COVID-19 Community Newspapers
Renee Saucier, Archivist at the Archives of Ontario and Ravit H David, University of Toronto
This project is a collaborative effort between the Archives of Ontario and Scholars Portal, OCUL to collect and preserve COVID-19 content from a selection of Ontario newspapers using Archive-It. Local media outlets offer an important lens into local experiences of the pandemic in diverse communities across Ontario. Articles, local statistics, public comment -- all of these resources will be important for current and future study of the pandemic and its effect on Ontarians. The collaboration with Scholars Portal focuses on approximately 120 newspapers not currently being archived by other web archiving initiatives, prioritizing locally-focused news content over provincial, federal, and international coverage on the basis of higher risk of permanent loss of that material.
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Schedule
12pm EST (9am PST; 10am MST; 11am CST; 1pm AST; 1:30 NST)
Analyzing the Persistence of Federal Government Publications in Former Depository Libraries
Graeme Campbell, Michelle Lake and Catherine McGoveran
Our project evaluates the persistence of federal government materials in former full depository CARL libraries, as a means of better understanding the current landscape of access to historical federal government information in Canada. The project used the public catalogues of CARL member libraries to search for a sample of 100 items selected from issues of the Weekly Checklist of Canadian Government Publications from the years 1979, 1989, 1999, and 2009. Over 2,600 publication searches were conducted as part of the data collection process. Our presentation will provide a summary of our analysis, as well as overall findings and recommendations relevant to the Canadian government information community.
12:30 pm EST (9:30 am PST; 10:30 am MST; 11:30 am CST; 1:30 pm AST; 2 NST)
Lightning Talks
Lobbying at the Federal Level – An Overview
Laura Langeveld, Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada
This talk will address the mandate of the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying and the definition of lobbying, as well as the tools available to ensure transparency around lobbying activities at the federal level.
Immediate Action for Information Rescue: How We Learned More Than We Wanted about COVID-19 through Web Archiving
Tom Smythe, Library and Archives Canada
More than ever before, web archiving has emerged internationally as a rapid response means of documenting a crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that web archiving is one of the few immediate actions information professionals may take to preserve a fulsome historical timeline and primary resources on an extended crisis. This talk will delve briefly into Library and Archives Canada’s (LAC) project on COVID-19, how our events-based web archival curation methodology has evolved, and report on our current progress.
Freedom of Information Laws and the Academy: Where are We at in 2020?
Mark Weiler, Wilfred Laurier University
This talk updates attendees on several issues about the use of freedom of information (FOI) laws for academic research in Canada. This includes: barriers in FOI laws for disabled researchers, FOI activity levels at the federal level, recent publications that use FOI, and an emerging research centre for FOI in Canada.
1:15 EST (10:15 am PST; 11:15 am MST; 12:15 pm CST; 2:15 pm AST; 2:45 pm NST)
Break
1:30 EST (10:30 am PST; 11:30 am MST; 12:30 pm CST; 2:30 pm AST; 3pm NST)
MLA Papers Archives at the Legislative Library of British Columbia
Suher Zaher-Mazawi, Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
The personal papers and records of politicians, and those related to their constituencies, are challenging to track. They are not considered government records, and therefore do not fall under government recordkeeping and information governance policies. In 2017, the Legislative Library of British Columbia recognized the archival value of records created and received by Members of the Legislative Assembly. As a result, the MLA Papers Archives was established, and we started acquiring personal papers and constituency records of elected Members who served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. In this presentation, we will share perspectives on the process of starting such an archives, our successes so far, and the challenges we are currently facing. We will also address our strategy to move forward in consolidating and institutionalizing this project.
2pm EST (11am PST; 12pm MST; 1pm CST; 3pm AST; 3:30 pm NST)
Lightning Talks
The Plight of Government Bookstores/Print Distribution: a Nova Scotia Example
David McDonald, Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is doing away with its government bookstore in April 2021, without anything to replace it. Citizens will not be able to access print resources from a single source. Is this development short-sighted or is it a necessary response to a new reality?
Discrimination not Allowed: Exhibiting Government Information
Amal Hussien, University of Toronto
Amal will discuss how the "Discrimination not Allowed" exhibit highlighted and promoted the government information collection at the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) and created a unique form of outreach and engagement initiatives for government information centres.
Partnering with the City of Saskatoon for Better Access to Municipal Data
Sarah Rutley, University of Saskatchewan
In 2019, the University of Saskatchewan and the City of Saskatoon launched the Research Junction partnership - an initiative that facilitates collaborative USask-City research projects addressing urban issues relevant to Saskatoon communities. One pillar of this initiative is a data sharing agreement, developed by the University Library in partnership with City staff, that provides USask researchers access to previously undiscoverable City data. This session will discuss the partnership, the development and implementation of the data agreement, and challenges and opportunities along the way.
2:45 pm EST (11:45 pm PST; 12:45 pm MST; 1:45 pm CST; 3:45 pm AST; 4:15 pm NST)
Archive-It Workshop: Web Archiving for Social Media
Karl Blumenthal, Internet Archive
Karl will lead participants through a short history, current best practices, and next stages in social media archives, including hands-on demonstration of the Internet Archive's suite of curator-controlled technologies for collection, description, preservation and access.
3:45 pm EST (12:45 pm PST; 1:45 pm MST; 2:45 pm CST; 4:45 pm AST; 5:15 pm NST)
Closing Remarks
Julie Anderson, Legislative Assembly of Ontario
12pm EST (9am PST; 10am MST; 11am CST; 1pm AST; 1:30 NST)
Analyzing the Persistence of Federal Government Publications in Former Depository Libraries
Graeme Campbell, Michelle Lake and Catherine McGoveran
Our project evaluates the persistence of federal government materials in former full depository CARL libraries, as a means of better understanding the current landscape of access to historical federal government information in Canada. The project used the public catalogues of CARL member libraries to search for a sample of 100 items selected from issues of the Weekly Checklist of Canadian Government Publications from the years 1979, 1989, 1999, and 2009. Over 2,600 publication searches were conducted as part of the data collection process. Our presentation will provide a summary of our analysis, as well as overall findings and recommendations relevant to the Canadian government information community.
12:30 pm EST (9:30 am PST; 10:30 am MST; 11:30 am CST; 1:30 pm AST; 2 NST)
Lightning Talks
Lobbying at the Federal Level – An Overview
Laura Langeveld, Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada
This talk will address the mandate of the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying and the definition of lobbying, as well as the tools available to ensure transparency around lobbying activities at the federal level.
Immediate Action for Information Rescue: How We Learned More Than We Wanted about COVID-19 through Web Archiving
Tom Smythe, Library and Archives Canada
More than ever before, web archiving has emerged internationally as a rapid response means of documenting a crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that web archiving is one of the few immediate actions information professionals may take to preserve a fulsome historical timeline and primary resources on an extended crisis. This talk will delve briefly into Library and Archives Canada’s (LAC) project on COVID-19, how our events-based web archival curation methodology has evolved, and report on our current progress.
Freedom of Information Laws and the Academy: Where are We at in 2020?
Mark Weiler, Wilfred Laurier University
This talk updates attendees on several issues about the use of freedom of information (FOI) laws for academic research in Canada. This includes: barriers in FOI laws for disabled researchers, FOI activity levels at the federal level, recent publications that use FOI, and an emerging research centre for FOI in Canada.
1:15 EST (10:15 am PST; 11:15 am MST; 12:15 pm CST; 2:15 pm AST; 2:45 pm NST)
Break
1:30 EST (10:30 am PST; 11:30 am MST; 12:30 pm CST; 2:30 pm AST; 3pm NST)
MLA Papers Archives at the Legislative Library of British Columbia
Suher Zaher-Mazawi, Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
The personal papers and records of politicians, and those related to their constituencies, are challenging to track. They are not considered government records, and therefore do not fall under government recordkeeping and information governance policies. In 2017, the Legislative Library of British Columbia recognized the archival value of records created and received by Members of the Legislative Assembly. As a result, the MLA Papers Archives was established, and we started acquiring personal papers and constituency records of elected Members who served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. In this presentation, we will share perspectives on the process of starting such an archives, our successes so far, and the challenges we are currently facing. We will also address our strategy to move forward in consolidating and institutionalizing this project.
2pm EST (11am PST; 12pm MST; 1pm CST; 3pm AST; 3:30 pm NST)
Lightning Talks
The Plight of Government Bookstores/Print Distribution: a Nova Scotia Example
David McDonald, Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is doing away with its government bookstore in April 2021, without anything to replace it. Citizens will not be able to access print resources from a single source. Is this development short-sighted or is it a necessary response to a new reality?
Discrimination not Allowed: Exhibiting Government Information
Amal Hussien, University of Toronto
Amal will discuss how the "Discrimination not Allowed" exhibit highlighted and promoted the government information collection at the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) and created a unique form of outreach and engagement initiatives for government information centres.
Partnering with the City of Saskatoon for Better Access to Municipal Data
Sarah Rutley, University of Saskatchewan
In 2019, the University of Saskatchewan and the City of Saskatoon launched the Research Junction partnership - an initiative that facilitates collaborative USask-City research projects addressing urban issues relevant to Saskatoon communities. One pillar of this initiative is a data sharing agreement, developed by the University Library in partnership with City staff, that provides USask researchers access to previously undiscoverable City data. This session will discuss the partnership, the development and implementation of the data agreement, and challenges and opportunities along the way.
2:45 pm EST (11:45 pm PST; 12:45 pm MST; 1:45 pm CST; 3:45 pm AST; 4:15 pm NST)
Archive-It Workshop: Web Archiving for Social Media
Karl Blumenthal, Internet Archive
Karl will lead participants through a short history, current best practices, and next stages in social media archives, including hands-on demonstration of the Internet Archive's suite of curator-controlled technologies for collection, description, preservation and access.
3:45 pm EST (12:45 pm PST; 1:45 pm MST; 2:45 pm CST; 4:45 pm AST; 5:15 pm NST)
Closing Remarks
Julie Anderson, Legislative Assembly of Ontario
