Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library Fall 2006 Update

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Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital LibraryFall
2006 Update
As Lieutenant Governor, I will do my best to
lend what support I can to those who hope to
realize their full potential. I want to let them
know that there are educational opportunities for
everyone. I hope to visit every community in
Alberta, to encourage people from all walks of
life to help themselves and their neighbours take
advantage of the incredible opportunities that
Alberta offers. I want to help make connections
between Albertans from one end of the province to
the other. The Late, The Honourable Dr.
Lois E. Hole
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Some Background on the LHCADL

• Announced in the 2005 Speech from the Throne
• Building on the Campus Alberta vision
• Taking advantage of the Alberta SuperNet
• Bringing millions of electronic resources to
  post-secondary institutions across the province
• Connecting First Nations colleges

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Participating Institutions

• Currently there are 35 participating libraries
• Public institutions (21)
• Publicly funded private university colleges (6)
• First Nations colleges (6)
• Other private, not for profit institutions (2)

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The LHCADL Vision

• Dramatically expanding the digital resources
  and services available to Alberta learners by
• Licensing resources in support of programmatic
  needs
• Identifying and digitizing material of interest
  to Albertans
• Building a robust technology infrastructure
• Establishing electronic repositories
• Developing information literacy programs

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What have we been doing?

• Creating Capacity - people and technology
• Electronic Resource Management System
• Drafting the Participation Agreement
• Ongoing Committee Appointments
• Resource Selection Negotiation
• Information Literacy Awareness
• Digitization Program

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Creating Capacity

• People
• Hiring of new staff
• Audit of current TAL positions
• Office space, redesigning and expanding
• Technology
• Refreshing current equipment
• Job descriptions developed, being evaluated
• On-going discussions with vendors

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Electronic Resource Management System

• Joint RFI issued in June
• Panel of experts assembled from TAL, U of A,
  U of C
• Presentations invited from four vendors
• Based upon RFI feedback, a single source RFP will
  likely be posted in November
• Option for other LHCADL participants to license

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Participation Agreement

• A requirement of Advanced Education
• Enriching available electronic resources
• Assessment and measurement
• Acknowledging Government funding
• Making LHCADL resources available to all
  Albertans

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Ongoing Service Committees

• Resource Selection Committee (RSC)
• Information Literacy and Awareness Committee
  (LILAC)
• Committee members and mandates on TAL webpage
  (www.thealbertalibrary.ab.ca)
• Membership on TAL Online Committee expanded
• Accountability and Evaluation Committee to be
  re-activated soon

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Resource Selection Committee

• Members represent different sectors (technical
  institutes, colleges and university colleges,
  First Nation colleges, universities)
• Chaired by Helen Clarke from the University of
  Calgary Library
• Each sector encouraged to provide input on
  priorities for resources

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Core Resources need to address a wide spectrum of
user needs

• LHCADL member libraries serve everything from
  adult upgrading to graduate students
• Desired resources include online reference works,
  technical manuals, newsstand materials, scholarly
  and popular journals, e-books, streaming audio
  visual material

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Resource Selection Committee Activities

• Mandate is to recommend and prioritize resources
  
• Two surveys have been distributed, feedback
  analyzed and folded into our Content Expansion
  RFP process TALs renewal schedule
• TAL Universal Core resources were viewed as most
  valuable starting point for foundation core
  collection

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Optimizing Advanced Educations Funding with an
RFP Process

• Proposals solicited from three vendors
• What value added can each company offer?
• Aiming for most product at best possible price
  and highest level of support

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Information Literacy and Awareness Committee
(LILAC)

• Co-chaired by Shauna Rutherford, U of C and
  Meagan Weber, Mount Royal College
• Members from different sectors, chosen for their
  expertise
• Participating libraries are encouraged to provide
  input on priorities to committee members and/or
  TAL staff

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Information Literacy Awareness (LILAC)
Activities

• Two days of introductory training on TAL
  universal core databases completed in August for
  staff at nine participating libraries
• IL survey to determine how we can help
  participating libraries incorporate digital
  resources into their learning enterprise will be
  distributed soon

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Future LILAC Activities

• Based upon survey feedback the committee will
  be working on
• A variety of training opportunities
• Mentoring and professional development
  opportunities
• Toolkit of IL resources

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Digitization Initiatives

• Albertas four universities are leads
• First installment of funds distributed
• Initial institutional intentions established
• Commitment to national standards
• Locally digitized materials will be available to
  all
• Wider audience will showcase Alberta

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First year Priorities by Institution

• Athabasca University
• All theses already digitized
• Mobile digital equipment purchased (allows
  digitization of community resources)
• Potential leveraging of projects with major
  corporations working in Athabasca area
• Distance Education materials
• Athabasca newspapers

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University of Lethbridge

• Create institutional repository digitize theses
  and dissertations
• Blackfoot Confederacy Project custodian to
  ensure continuity of access
• Only surviving complete runs of local newspapers
  (e.g.Lethbridge Herald 1905-)
• Audio tapes of Blackfoot elders (with Red Crow
  Community College)

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University of Calgary

• Our Roots and AHDP
• More work on digitizing theses
• Aboriginal military history collection
• Collection of architectural photography

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University of Alberta

• Expanding Peels Prairie Provinces
• Javitch Collection of aboriginal materials
• Circumpolar/Boreal materials
• Digitizing U of A theses (17,000 of 30,000)
• Selections from general collection

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Questions?
If I can help people to understand the enormous
educational resource each citizen represents, if
I can help the parents of today realize the dream
of a better life for the children of tomorrow, I
feel I will have done my job as Lieutenant
Governor. The Late, The Honourable Dr. Lois
E. Hole