Our goal.

This four-year grant-funded project will oversee the development and launch of a digital library infrastructure for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region and Canada's north.

Objectives.

This project has eight key objectives to accomplish over a four-year time frame (2014-2018):

1. Investigate and identify the information needs and information seeking behaviour of community members in the ISR
2. Develop a digital library of information resources
3. Explore appropriate methodologies for treatment of cultural heritage information
4. Create a culturally appropriate metadata framework as a basis for resource description and discovery
5. Develop requirements for multilingual user interfaces that support the dominant languages
6. Conduct a user-centered evaluation of the digital library
7. Develop a sustainability strategy for the digital library to ensure long-term access to digital information
8. Provide training in information management to local project participants

MacFarlane Collection, cat. no. E2545-01A. source: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/292 Three polar bears on the Beaufort Sea coast, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polar_bears_on_the_Beaufort_Sea_coast.jpg

The top image is a wood cutting of a polar bear, an example of Inuvialuit art from the MacFarlane Collection, catalogued and digitized for Inuvialuit Living History project.