2022
2022 CRKN Conference: Strength in Community
Online & in Montreal
October 03 - November 02, 2022
Rebecca Dickson
Digital Preservation Coordinator
Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries
Rebecca Dickson is a Librarian, Technologist, and the Digital Preservation Coordinator for the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL). Her current work focuses on building capacity for Academic Libraries to provide sustainable, community-centered access to digital collections with value for research, teaching, and cultural heritage. She collaborates with regional, national, and international partners to develop services, strategies and infrastructure that ensure digital assets remain available and usable for the long term. She holds a Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) from the University of British Columbia, where she previously held a number of roles in the Library’s Digital Initiatives unit. She brings experience developing technical solutions that enable innovative discovery and use of digital objects and metadata, and a user-centered design orientation that stems from an academic background in mixed-methods social science research.
Rebecca also serves as a member of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries Digital Preservation Working Group, and as Co-Chair of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s Preservation Expert Group. She is grateful to live and work as an uninvited guest on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Presenting at the following sessions
In 2021, discussions between the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries’ (COPPUL) Digital Preservation, Indigenous Knowledge, and Shared Print programs led to the formation of the Indigenous Historical Publications Working Group (IHPWG). Made up of members with expertise in Indigenous Studies, collection development, digitization, and digital preservation, this group is guiding efforts within COPPUL to improve discovery of, access to, and preservation of publications by and about Indigenous communities on whose lands our members live and work. These publications include newspapers, newsletters and various forms of grey literature.
