Co-curated by Emma Metcalfe Hurst and Donald Shipton, Collecting the Collector & Processing the Process is a student-curated exhibition that explores avant-garde Canadian poet bp Nichol’s practice as both a collector and creator. On the third floor of SFU’s W.A.C. Bennett Library, materials from Nichol’s various collections are on display. This includes a selection of his robots, a menagerie of “H”‘s, selections from his Dick Tracy comics collection, alongside his other playful projects found in the archives. On display on the seventh floor, at the entrance to SFU’s Rare Books…read more

Oct.13

ACA’s Notes in the Field – A Two-Part Blog Post

Posted by EMMAMETCALFEHURST in Uncategorized

Archival Research, Indigenous Protocols, and Documentary Filmmaking: A Case Study of British Columbia – An Untold History (Part 1) Archival Research, Indigenous Protocols, and Documentary Filmmaking: A Case Study of British Columbia – An Untold History (Part 2)

Oct.13

VIVO Media Arts Centre

Posted by EMMAMETCALFEHURST in Archives, Digitization, Film, Libraries, New media

*Coming soon!*

Oct.13

Class Notes & Student Feedback (a sampling)

Posted by EMMAMETCALFEHURST in Libraries, School

My class notes from LIBR 509: Foundations of Resource Description and Knowledge Organization were uploaded to the UBC/course wiki space. You can find them here A sampling of peer review feedback that I provided on weekly assignments throughout the course can be found here

Apr.20

Weekly Assignments (x 9)

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My weekly assignments for LIBR 509: Foundations of Resource Description and Knowledge Organization: Week 1 – Facets Classification System Week 2 – Thesaurus – Create Week 3 – Content Schema – Create Week 4 – Classification – Analyze Week 5 – Controlled Vocabulary – Analyze Week 6 – Content Standard – Analyze Week 7 – Data Format – Analyze Week 8 – Systems Integration – Analyze Week 9 – Systems Integration – Create Original submissions were revised based on peer feedback.

Apr.20