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The Cloud Has a Country: Digital Preservation in a Geopolitical Age
Essay by Corey Davis “Canada’s been living under our umbrella for 250 years. They need to pay up.” — Stephen Tolan, 63, Anchorage For many years now, cloud storage made it easy for…
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“Archiving the Process”: Student Reflection on Ethics-Based Learning
Kula is pleased to announced that UVic undergraduate student Nevaeh Bitzer has published an interview with graphic novelist artist Gilad Seliktar on the process of ethics-based artistic and archival practices as part of…
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Using OCR to Georectify Historical Fire Insurance Plans
By Chloë Farr and Emilia Hurd UVic Libraries holds 68,000 loose maps, as well as multi-sheet atlases and fire insurance plan books. Historic maps, visually and informationally complex, are time consuming to…
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Kula Announces New Undergraduate Research Fellowship
In Robert Gibbs’ What Can A University Be, Gibbs “imagines a university focused on engaging students in research at all levels and across all faculties.” This ideal is mirrored in UVic’s Strategic Plan…
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Nathaniel Brunt Speaking at Oxford University
Kula Postdoctoral Fellow and Hannah Arendt Fellow at TIB, Nathaniel Brunt, will be speaking with Richard Ovenden at Oxford University on Wednesday, 7 October 2026 from 12.00–13.00 at the at the Weston Library.
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Ethics in EU Data Protection and Privacy
This post reflects on my introduction to the study and implementation of ethics in the context of data protection and privacy law, and on what that encounter has meant for my formation as…
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Human Rights and Library Futures
My name is Linnea Thorson (she/her), and I hold the Young Canada Works (YCW) Digital Heritage Research Assistantship at Kula: Library Futures Academy, University of Victoria Libraries, situated on the traditional territory of…
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Governments Hit “Delete” …A Grassroots Movement Hits “Save”.
Safeguarding Research, Data & Culture — a workshop at UVic Libraries,27 & 28 August 2026. Since early 2025, US agencies have removed thousands of web pages and datasets from public view: public health…
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A German Delegation from Libraries, Archives and Information Science Visits UVic
From 31 August to 4 September, UVic Libraries and Kula: Library Futures Academy welcome a delegation of eight library, archive, and information science professionals from Germany. The week is hosted under the patronage…
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