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Arctic Library Portal Workshop: Overview UAL Circumpolar Collection Peggy Sue Ewanyshyn Digitization Librarian University of Alberta Libraries [email protected]
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Arctic Library Portal Workshop: Overview UAL Circumpolar
Collection Peggy Sue Ewanyshyn
Digitization Librarian University of Alberta Libraries
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Brief overview of related digitization activities at University of Alberta Libraries (UAL) Brief overview of strengths in our circumpolar collection
peel.library.ualberta.ca
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Launched in 2003, our flagship digitization effort
The Prairie Provinces:
Newspapers: article segmentation
Postcards:
Maps:
steele.library.ualberta.ca
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Yukon and Klondike Gold Rush
canadiana.library.ualberta.ca
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Part of our partnership with Internet Archive
Digital Asset Management System
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Development in progress – will move all digital assets over eventually
Circumpolar Collection
• Polar pamphlets (ephemera) • 3000+ items – contemporary
• Newspapers (around 154; mostly 1970s+) • Predominantly Canadian titles (127) • A few are US-based and international
• Monographs (55,000+ titles) • Microfiche
Other Arctic-related content
• Maps • 80,000+ may have content that is Arctic in nature
• Special Collections
• 325 items pre-1923; 75 items post-1923
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Mostly 1st and 2nd edition published accounts of exploration activity in the North
