Multicultural Canada

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Multicultural Canada

• Lynn Copeland
• Simon Fraser University Library
• IFLA Multicultural Services PreconferenceVancouve
  r, BC, August 8, 2008

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Partners
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Reasons

• Material, history little known
• Access
• Awareness
• Community, educational and research support

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Content Partners
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Funders
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Contents

• Encyclopedia
• Newspapers
• Oral histories
• Correspondence
• Photos
• Pamphlets
• Papers
• Books

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Collections
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Search several collections at once

• content

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Search several collections at once
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Learning Modules

• A variety of audiences
• A variety of styles, scope

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A few technicalities

• Content Management Drupal
• Image management ContentDM (OCLC)

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Beta test site with OCLC re ISO searching
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Official launch
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Partners Launch
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Statistics

• 11,562 visits in 4 weeks
• External sites
• Canadian Encyclopedia
• Wikipedia
• Google
• Yahoo
• Blogs
• Libraries (many)
• Facebook
• Collections Canada

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Wikipedia has numerous links
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Multicultural Canada

• Lynn Copeland
• Simon Fraser University Library
• copeland_at_sfu.ca