WHO

WHAT!
! A multi-year project to replicate the original printed bibliographies: volume I, A bibliography of British Columbia; laying the foundations, 1849-1899 published in 1968; volume II, Navigations, trafques & discoveries, 1774-1848: a guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia published in 1970; and volume III, A bibliography of British Columbia: years of growth 1900-1950 published in 1975. There is also a continuous update to the Bibliography in issues of the journal BC Studies from 1968 to the present! ! ! Work is now being done on volume I with over 400 titles digitized and available online in high resolution with metadata and full PDF download!

WHERE
! Project is run out of the Digitization Centre, part of Digital Initiatives, at the University of British Columbia Library! ! ! C o n t e n t i s h o s t e d o n a CONTENTdm back end with a custom nd layer using Elasticsearch and a custom front end using JavaScript and PHP! ! Visit the site:!

! The University of British Columbia Library, University of Victoria Library, University of Northern British Columbia Library, British Columbia Legislative Library, Vancouver Public Library and Simon Fraser University Library with funding from a private donor! ! ! Managed by a librarian with assistance from one library assistant and ve part-time student workers including four digitizers and one metadata/quality control specialist. Students are hired with assistance from the campus WorkLearn (i.e. WorkStudy) programme!

HOW
! The three print bibliographies were scanned and the data scraped and put in to a spreadsheet! ! ! Starting with volume I the University of British Columbia catalogue was searched for all matching titles. Then the same was done in WorldCat and the two results merged in a master metadata spreadsheet that is used to provide the metadata for each title! ! ! Scanning/photography is done on one or more of several devices: Atiz with Canon 5D MkIII cameras and 50mm/85mm/100mm lenses; TTI photographic workstation with a Sinarback eVolution 86 H and Sinaron lenses; Contex HD5450 Plus wide format scanner; Epson V-750 Pro or 11000XL atbed scanners! ! ! Raw scans are run through an extensive postprocessing workow using Photoshop actions and renamed to accommodate the online viewer! ! ! Items are uploaded as compound objects to CONTENTdm with OCR and high quality PDFs for download!

THE BRITISH COLUMBIA BIBLIOGRAPHY

WHY
! ! There are many ne print bibliographies which can benet from conversion to a fulltext online accessible format and this is one of them. The intellectual impetus and work that drove the creation of the original British Columbia bibliographies can be used and appreciated by new generations of scholars now and in to the future.! ! ! We also are able to surface and make available a core selection of the University of British Columbia Library's special collections, an increasingly vital role for libraries (viz. Can't Buy Us Love: The Declining Importance of Library Books and the Rising Importance of Special Collections by Rick Anderson)!

WHEN
! ! Project began in early 2010 with a "what if" discussion followed by an 18 month pilot project! ! ! The current production run is scheduled through 2015!