https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/issue/feed 2021-09-02T07:55:49-07:00 Open Journal Systems <p>The BCLA Browser was an online, open access quarterly publication that communicated and discussed BCLA activities and news, library-related issues, and topics of interest to BCLA members published from 2009 to 2014. The last issue was Volume 6, no. 4 (2014).</p> <p>Please see <a href="https://bclaconnect.ca/perspectives/">BCLA Perspectives</a> to see the latest newsletter from The British Columbia Library Association. </p> https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3611 2021-09-02T07:55:38-07:00 Roën Janyk rjanyk@okanagan.bc.ca 2014-10-30T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3613 2021-09-02T07:55:40-07:00 Leanna Jantzi browser@bcla.bc.ca Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3620 2021-09-02T07:55:44-07:00 Jenny Benedict jbenedict@westvanlibrary.ca

The digital marketplace is becoming increasingly crowded with over a trillion web pages in existence and more being created daily worldwide. 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2014-10-17T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3610 2021-09-02T07:55:38-07:00 Ashley Van Dijk ashleyrose15@ymail.com 2014-10-30T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3618 2021-09-02T07:55:43-07:00 Andrea Coutts andrea.coutts@ubc.ca

UBC Library's Fall Update highlights receipients of the Aboriginal Audio Digitization and Preservation Project, as well as recently acquired collections and events.

2014-10-17T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3617 2021-09-02T07:55:42-07:00 Deb Thomas da.thomas@shaw.ca

The Services to People with Print Disabilities Working Group of the Special Needs Interest Group has received Vancouver Foundation Funding to create a toolkit aimed at assisting library staff in providing respectful and effecitve services to patrons with all types of disabilities. The toolkit is now complete and will be available soon through the BCLA website.<br />

2014-10-19T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3619 2021-09-02T07:55:44-07:00 Heidi Schiller hschiller@cnv.org 2014-10-21T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3621 2021-09-02T07:55:48-07:00 Janet Freeman jfreeman@courthouselibrary.ca 2014-10-22T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3612 2021-09-02T07:55:39-07:00 Amy Ashmore aeb.ashmore@gmail.com Sarah Felkar sfelkar@westvanlibrary.ca Caroline Johnson caroline.johnson@shaw.ca

Two BCLA Mentors share their experiences of particpating in the Mentorship Program.

2014-10-22T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3616 2021-09-02T07:55:41-07:00 Anne DeGrace ADegrace@nelson.ca

The Nelson Library partners with Politics Cafe and the West Kootenay Eco-Society mimics speed-dating&nbsp;to offer three minute one-on-one sessions with 2014 municipal election candidates and school trustee candidates. &nbsp;

2014-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3622 2021-09-02T07:55:49-07:00 Irene Jakse IJakse@portmoody.ca 2014-10-28T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3609 2021-09-02T07:55:37-07:00 Barbara Jo May bjmay@bpl.burnaby.bc.ca Miriam Moses Miriam.Moses@bpl.bc.ca Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3614 2021-09-02T07:55:40-07:00 Heather Buzzell hbuzzell@summer.com 2014-10-29T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/browser/article/view/3615 2021-09-02T07:55:41-07:00 Annette DeFaveri execdir@bcla.bc.ca 2014-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c)