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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">PDL Communique - #1, October 2016</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">“Balancing perfection with agility in both planning and development.”</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">May 10th PDL Symposium, p. 3</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">We hope many of you had a relaxing summer and are now back into the swing of everything that autumn brings.
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">On May 10, 2016, more than 100 representatives from the academic, archive, K-12, library, and museum sectors gathered to engage in conversation about shared aspirations for
a Provincial Digital Library (PDL) for British Columbia. You can find the May 10th report at
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><a href="https://bclaconnect.ca/wp-uploads/2016/02/PDL_May10Symposium_Report_FINAL_revised.pdf"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1155CC">https://bclaconnect.ca/wp-uploads/2016/02/PDL_May10Symposium_Report_FINAL_revised.pdf</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">.
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">But it doesn’t stop there! Following the May symposium, the PDL initiative remains active and in forward motion.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">Making it Happen: Steps taken since the May 10th Symposium
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">An important discussion regarding a provisional governance structure took place. The original
<i>Planning Committee </i>was renamed the <i>PDL Steering Committee</i> and endorsed to move forward on the PDL initiative. Full Steering Committee membership can be found at
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><a href="https://bclaconnect.ca/provincial-digital-library-pdl/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#1155CC">https://bclaconnect.ca/provincial-digital-library-pdl/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">Work is moving forward on several of the identified priorities.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">May 10th Priority: Target expansion of Steering Committee membership
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">The PDL Steering Committee has expanded to include representatives of the broader community, along with thought leaders and subject matter experts.
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">Immediately following the May 10th meeting, the Steering Committee welcomed ….</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121;background:white">Christina de Castell</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121;background:white"> -
<i>Director, Collections and Technology at Vancouver Public Library</i>. Christina is responsible for the library’s print and digital collections, technical services, and IT. She also oversees VPL’s digital services, including vpl.ca and This Vancouver - VPL’s
digital destination for sharing Vancouver’s history and local stories. Christina is involved in provincial, national, and international library organizations on committees related to eBooks, copyright and digital licensing.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121;background:white">Bronwen Sprout
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121;background:white">-
<i>Head, Digital Programs and Services at University of British Columbia Library</i>. Bronwen has extensive experience in managing digitization initiatives. She oversees the UBC Library's digitization, digital repository, digital preservation, and scholarly
communication activities. Bronwen is the lead for the BC History Digitization Program run out of the Irving K Barber Learning Centre.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121;background:white">...and most recently two more new members include,
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">Denise Williams
<i>-</i></span></b><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">Executive Director, First Nations Technology Council</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">. Denise is Coast Salish from Cowichan Tribes on Vancouver
Island. She is an advocate for social justice and has spent her career seeking out opportunities to play a role in the advancement of Indigenous sovereignty. She is known for her early involvement and leadership in new and innovative initiatives addressing
reconciliation and economic development leveraging technology and within the technology space. For the past ten years Denise has worked under the mandate of First Nations communities and leadership in British Columbia to address specific capacity building
efforts in education and technology. She has worked federally, provincially and locally with a genuine approach to collaboration and partnership development that builds strong networks capable of moving critical initiatives to the forefront. Denise has an
MBA from Simon Fraser University and specializes in social enterprise business development.
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">Max Otte</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">,
<i>Digital Information Strategist for the Government of British Columbia.</i><span style="background:white">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121;background:white">Max previously worked as an archivist for the Government of BC. He is the Vice President (incoming President) of the Archives Association of British Columbia.
Max is particularly interested in the question of how to provide access to archives in the digital age and is excited to be involved in the PDL initiative.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#212121;background:white">
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121;background:white">There is increased optimism and momentum with this broadened representation from LAM institutions across sectors.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">May 10th Priority: To ensure that Steering Committee focuses on the broader strategic decisions, create a smaller committee to support operational decision-making.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">In July, the newly minted Steering Committee met for an in-person strategic direction discussion.
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333;background:white">As part of these discussions was an offer made by two institutions to donate staff time in kind to the PDL initiative. The result is our first PDL Admin Team!</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>PDL Admin Team</b> includes:</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">Dan Sifton, Coordinator of Library Automation and Technical Services fr</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">om</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#212121">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">Dana McFarland, eResources Librarian from Vancouver Island University, and Caroline Daniels, Systems Librarian from Kwantlen Polytechnic University are focussed on next
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">“I think the Provincial Digital Library has enormous potential to showcase the remarkable and multiple identities of B.C. Our collaborative
efforts can highlight our past, our present and help us define aspects of our future. Putting information into the hands of every British Columbian through a seamless, easy to access platform is a really transformative, unifying and democratizing endeavor,
that moves us from an organizational focus to a greater focus on the public good. I am pleased that VIU is able to contribute at such an early stage in the PDL development.” </span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121"> Tim
Atkinson, University Librarian, Vancouver Island University</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">What else has the attention of the Admin Team and Steering Committee?</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">Guiding Principles</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">Always at the forefront to any work surrounding the PDL, is the set of guiding principles created at the November 4, 2015 meeting, and endorsed at the May 10th, 2016 Symposium.
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<p style="background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">At the core of these values is the deeply held belief and commitment to the public good.</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">Stewardship – at all times act responsibly and ethically<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">Find out more!</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#212121">You can find more information about the PDL, including past meeting reports and environmental scans, Steering Committee full membership, and more at
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