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CIDL Newsletter

CIDL News is the bilingual newsletter of the Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries. It is published twice a year. CIDL News carries reports on the Steering Committee activities, members' projects, plus news of conferences and workshops. CIDL members are invited to submit articles about their concerns and experiences with organizing, managing, and sustaining digitization projects of service to Canadians.

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CIDL News

2006

No. 13, December 2006 [PDF 731 KB]

Correspondents in this issue:

Bill Maes, Dalhousie University Libraries, Observations from LAC Summit Montebello 2006
Michelle Landriault, CIDL, CIDL Chair Bill Maes addresses Access 2006:
"Digitization is about content, content, content"
Chris Petter, University of Victoria, Report on CIDL 2005 Metadata Survey Results
Deane Zeeman, Library and Archives Canada, Thoughts on CIDL Metadata Survey Results

No. 12, February 2006 [PDF 650 KB]

Correspondents in this issue:

Louise Spiteri, Dalhousie University School of Information Management, on Folksonomies and Controlled Vocabularies
Nancy Stuart, University of Victoria Libraries, on Building Metadata Application Profiles
Kathy Crewdson & Ian Dew, NextLibrary Inc., on Southern Alberta Information Resources (SAIR) Project
Marie-Hélène Vezina, Université de Montréal, Bibliothèques, on Access 2005 Edmonton
Daniel Boivin, OCLC Canada, on Manitobia: Life and Times
Carrol D. Lunau, a career librarian reminisces: Card Catalogues to Virtual Catalogues

2005

No. 11, May 2005 [PDF 80 KB]

Correspondents in this issue:

Brian Bell, Chair, CIDL (Director, E Services Development, Halton Information Network) on New Directions for CIDL: Digital Canada
Kathryn Harvey, Archives Specialist, Dalhousie University Archives, Killam Memorial Library on Encoded Archival Description. Electronic Text Centre, University of New Brunswick, 2004 Summer Seminar Series
Profile @ CIDL: Mark Jordan, Acting Coordinator Library Systems and Leanne Denis, Advancement Officer, Simon Fraser University on Multicultural Canada: Our Diverse Ethnic Heritage Online
OCLC Canada (CIDL Sponsor 2005) on OCLC Canada preserves Canadian heritage through digitization projects
IBM Business Consulting (CIDL Sponsor 2004) on IBM helps Die Deutsche Bibliothek to develop digital long-term archives

2004

No. 10, May 2004 [PDF 80 KB]

Correspondents in this issue:

Tim Au Yeung, University of Calgary Information Resources, on Symposium 2003
Profile @ CIDL: Alex Eykelhof on The Bibliocentre
Julie Arie, Saskatchewan Provincial Library, on Access 2003
Peter D. James, University of Winnipeg, on UNB Electronic Text Centre
Sharon Reeves, Library & Archives Canada, on Theses Canada
CIDL Steering Committee 2004-2006
Our Roots National Editorial Board

2003

No. 9, September 2003 [PDF 987 KB]

Correspondents in this issue:

Digitization Standards from four projects:
Linda Pearce, University of Calgary "Metadata for Canada's Local Histories"
William Wueppelmann, CIHM "Metadata & Early Canadiana Online"
Rida Benjelloun, Pierre Lasou, Université Laval "Metadata in the Université Laval Theses & Dissertations Project"
Deane Zeeman, Katherine Miller-Gatenby, LAC "Metadata & Resource Discovery, Government of Canada Role of Library & Archives Canada"
Metadata Forum, September 19 & 20, 2003 Ottawa
Profile @ CIDL: Tim Au Yeung, University of Calgary

No. 8, January 2003 [PDF 318 KB]

In This Issue

Reports from the CIDL Open Meeting
Update on the Bath Profile
Provincial Library of Nova Scotia to launch its Inventory!
Report from 2002 CIDL Bursary Recipient
More Digital Project News Throughout

2002

No. 7, April 2002 [PDF 167 KB]

2001

No. 6, February 2001 [PDF 113 KB]

2000

No. 5, March 2000 [PDF 61 KB]

1999

No. 3 / 4, December 1999 [PDF 78 KB]

No. 2, July 1999 [PDF 192 KB]