Simon Fraser University Library Multicultural Canada Lynn Copeland Simon Fraser University Library IFLA Multicultural Services Preconference Vancouver, BC, August 8, 2008

Partners CCOP: $500k SFU Library: Doukhobor, South Asian interviews, ethnic newspapers, U Calgary: Ukrainian, German Sien Lok: initial startup funding MHSO: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Encyclopedia of Canada’s peoples U Vic: Chinese Benevolent Association U Toronto: Doukhobor, German Vancouver Public Library: Multicultural photos LAC: $25k – ethnic newspapers IK Barber: BC History digitization program Note: overlap in collections: ethnic newspapers include Chinese, South Asian, French, Jewish

Reasons Material, history little known Access Awareness Community, educational and research support MC grew from our conviction that the cultural groups that make up our country have little-known stories that need to be researched and told. Universal Access: can access a variety of different formats (newspapers, photos, interviews, books), materials located physically in different places (Toronto (2), Calgary, Vancouver (2), Victoria) Awareness: learning modules geared to K-12 curriculum and to general public; encyclopedia and other resources provide access to information about the past of important elements of our Country Financial, participatory and letters of support: researchers, community and educational was also demonstrated by the success of the MC conference May 2006.

Content Partners SFU Library Vancouver Public Library Multicultural History Society of Ontario University of Calgary Information Services University of Victoria Library University of Toronto

Funders Canadian Heritage Library and Archives Canada Sien Lok Society of Alberta Chinese Freemasons Society of Canada Content partners Individual donations BC History digitization programme

Contents Encyclopedia Newspapers Oral histories Correspondence Photos Pamphlets Papers Books Encyclopedia of Canada’s peoples >19 newspapers: French Canadian, South Asian, Jewish, chinese, Japanese Oral histories: South Asian, Chinese, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Correspondence: Doukhobor, Photos: Doukhobor, South Asian, Chinese, Japanese, First nations, Pamphlets: Doukhobor, German, Ukrainian Papers: Doukhobor, Chinese, Books: German, Ukrainian, Japanese Brings together similar collections from different sites; eg Doukhobor (James Mavor, UofT; SFU collection); Ukrainian (UofT, U of C) Will also be available through Canadiana.org (formerly AllouetteCanada) and ‘the West beyond the West’, BC’s digital portal.

Collections Bilingual Search/browse features across or within collections

Search several collections at once content

Search several collections at once

Learning Modules A variety of audiences A variety of styles, scope

A few technicalities Content Management: Drupal Image management: ContentDM (OCLC)

Web content management: Drupal Image content management: Contentdm; API link SFU beta site for ISO searching in OCLC

Beta test site with OCLC re ISO searching

SFU was beta test site for ISO compliant searching SFU was beta test site for ISO compliant searching. Search term is ‘freemason’

Multicultural Canada conference May 2006.

Official launch Minister Jim Abbott and students Hon. Jim Abbott, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and MP, Kootenay Columbia

Partners Launch

West Point Grey third annual Multicultural Evening on the 7th of March, 2008 from 6 to 9 pm open to students and parents from various participating high schools. over 200 people financial contributions; which will be used directly for the funding of our event with proceeds to UNICEF. In return for showing your support, we will highlight your company/organization’s input on posters advertising the event, on the event night, and in our weekly e-newsletter sent to all parents of students attending West Point Grey Academy.

Statistics 11,562 visits in 4 weeks External sites: Canadian Encyclopedia Wikipedia Google Yahoo Blogs Libraries (many) Facebook Collections Canada Note: time of year is least likely to be visited/used by K-12 Talks to the power of the social web

Wikipedia has numerous links

Lynn Copeland Simon Fraser University Library copeland@sfu.ca Multicultural Canada Lynn Copeland Simon Fraser University Library copeland@sfu.ca