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Book Launch & Discussion Panel for Mountain Voices: A Celebration of Awe and Persistence
This event celebrates the publication of Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada. Who: All Welcome! When: Thursday February 12, 7 p.m. Where: University of Victoria Library,…
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Accelerating History: AI and Optical Character Recognition Seminar
We are excited to co-present with the University of Alberta Digital Scholarship Centre on some of the work we’ve been doing with OCR and vision language models! Description: From the 1990s to the…
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Notes from a Library AI Research Visit at the University of Alberta
I spent the first two weeks of 2026 visiting the University of Alberta (UofA) Digital Scholarship Centre (DSC) for an informal exploratory period focused on knowledge exchange and relationship-building. The goal was to…
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Making Scanned Data Tables Usable with AI
Back in October 2025, Nick Rochlin, our Science and Data Librarian, sent me a folder of scans of data tables typed in the 1980s. A student had contacted Nick asking if there was an…
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Exploring AI integrations in Libraries & Archives
I’m Chloë Farr, the Kula: Library Futures Academy Graduate Student Fellow in AI. I hold bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Linguistics, and I am currently a PhD student in Computer Science at UVic.…
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Building Transnational Queer & Trans+ Connections
By Michael Radmacher, Transgender Archives Metadata Librarian A popular storytelling mechanism begins the story at the end of the tale. But what if the story doesn’t have an ending? This conundrum may be…
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KULA Postdoctoral Fellow Awarded Hannah Arendt Fellowship
Kula: Library Futures Academy is pleased to announce that Nathaniel Brunt, VPRI Aspiration 2030 & Kula Postdoctoral Fellow, has received the prestigious 2026 Hannah Arendt Fellowship awarded by the German state of Lower…
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Director Interview in Eurekalert
An interview with Kula Director Matt Huculak was featured in Eurekalert this week. Huculak talks about the hopes in founding the Kula: Library Futures Academy on research at the University of Victoria, including…
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The Role of the Storyteller in Society (Launch Video)
We are pleased that the first video from the Kula: Library Futures Academy Launch on September 15, 2025 is now available. Moderator Shelagh Rogers is joined by authors Richard Van Camp, Esi Edugyan,…
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Science + Art = Action
Kula: Library Futures Academy co-hosted with the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Climate Disaster Project, and Department of Geography a transdisciplinary presentation and discussion with visiting Swiss glaciologist Dr. Andreas Linsbauer, whose work…
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