<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_-2471339340089255153gmail-:ub" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:307px" aria-controls=":wy" aria-expanded="false"><div id="m_-2471339340089255153gmail-:ub" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:307px" aria-controls=":wy" aria-expanded="false"><div>Hi everyone, please excuse cross-posting!</div><div><br></div><div>The Friends of BC's Archives is presenting an online webinar with Sasha Han and Paige Hohmann on digital archival repositories, speaking to both end-users/researchers as well as archives professionals working to increase the digital accessibility of the holdings they steward. Please join us for this presentation on navigating and increasing access to digital archival holdings in BC. The webinar is free and membership with the FBCA isn't required, details are below or visit the FBCA website: <a href="https://friendsbcarchives.ca/upcoming-events/" target="_blank">https://friendsbcarchives.ca/upcoming-events/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><font size="4">We’re here together! Toward meaningful digital access to BC’s historical collections with Arca</font></b></div><div><div><b><br>Sasha Han and Paige Hohmann</b></div><div><b>Sunday, September 20, 2026 | 2:00pm – 3:00pm<br>Online via Zoom</b><br>Zoom Link Registration: <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/bPATHN-KSwWNFNoifFbShw" target="_blank">https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/bPATHN-KSwWNFNoifFbShw</a> </div></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mu7bs7kl1" alt="OSC_ARC_1_3-1_03521_ed.jpg resize.jpg" style="margin-right:0px" width="376" height="295"><br></div><div><font size="1"><i>Doug Cox Historical Photographs Collection. (1931). Group on beach, S.S. Sicamous in water at Penticton, B.C. Doug and Joyce Cox Research Collection. (OSC ARC 1.3-1/03521). UBC Okanagan Library Special Collections and Archives.</i></font></div><div><br></div><div>Sometimes, the scanning is the easy part. This presentation will bring together Sasha Han (Arca) and Paige Hohmann (BC Regional Digitized History at UBC Okanagan) to discuss a menu of ways and means for BC repositories to get past scanning, and through to mounting collections online — and for researchers to get value out of those mounted collections. Starting with an explanation of available supports, resourcing and funding opportunities, and hosting options with a focus on Arca as a shared digital repository service, the presentation will also provide a technical walk through of the Arca platform. It will conclude with case studies of how these programs have generated value for both GLAM organizations as well as for scholars and researchers. </div><div><br></div><div><i>Sasha Han is a Consortial Librarian at the BC Electronic Library Network, where she supports Arca, BC’s collaborative digital repository service. In partnership with the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC Vancouver, she leads two services that help organizations participate in the BC History Digitization Program (BCHDP), providing application support for prospective grant applicants and digital hosting for grant recipients. Sasha is also a passionate digitizer in her free time, having scanned and described thousands of photographs from her family’s personal collection.<br><br>Paige Hohmann has been the archivist at UBC’s Okanagan Campus Library in Kelowna, BC, since 2016. In that role, she has stewarded the library’s Special Collections, initiated a campus-level records management and archival program, and coordinated the BC Regional Digitized History project (<a href="https://bcrdh.ca" target="_blank">https://bcrdh.ca</a>). A sense of identity in place has informed all her professional activities, most of all the BCRDH project, which seeks to cultivate access to digitized heritage materials through community partnerships in BC’s southern interior. </i></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Jessica Payne</div><div>FBCA Member-at-Large</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Jessica Payne (she/her)</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Assistant Director & Archives Manager</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Sidney Museum & Archives</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><img width="96" height="42" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zu3Vlx41wqMmiDdlbDO2MQRNxE3yHlxxE83i7zCbOZXsIP7J72pQQDzAZDklXH5enWZy-ltGY"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">2423 Beacon Ave L-3</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Sidney BC V8L 1X5</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="tel:(250)%20655-6355" value="+12506556355" target="_blank">250-655-6355</a></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="mailto:outreach@sidneymuseum.ca" target="_blank">jessica@sidneymuseum.ca</a></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="http://sidneymuseum.ca/" target="_blank">sidneymuseum.ca</a></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We respectfully acknowledge the Sidney Museum & Archives has been shaped by the colonial history of Canada, and</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> is located in Sidney/SETINES on the traditional territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ People.
We understand that territory acknowledgment is just one part of Reconciliation, and the museum continues to work towards other ways that we can participate in Reconciliation alongside Indigenous communities.</span></i></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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