How to Use

Sub-sections

The UBCIC Library and Archives digital collections are arranged into various sub-sites: research resources, digital exhibits, and archival holdings.

Archival holdings contain items held at the Union of BC Indian Chiefs Archive, created by UBCIC, its membership, or staff during its existence so far.  Holdings available on the site include historic newsletters, photographs, publications, and meeting materials.

Research resources contain copies of resources and tools that may be useful when conducting land-related research, particuarly within the area of specific claims.

Digital exhibits bring together UBCIC archival items, items created by other organizatons, UBCIC created bibliographies and essays, educational tools,  on specific topics or historial events.

Searching within the main site, where you are currently, will allow you to browse all the items hosted here created by UBCIC.

Browsing

Within any collection site, users can search, filter, bookmark, tag, and view the available items.

When viewing an item, it may have both an area to view or the read file as well as metadata. Metadata will describe basic facts about the item, such as the date, contributors, and type of item. For some metadata, a user can click on the property and view other items that have that same property. Items can also be inside of one or more item sets.

Our digital collections platform is built on the Omeka S software, see their full user guide for information about the software.

Contributing

We encourge individuals to contribute to the collection, or provide any additional information they may have to existing items. If you have any further questions about contributing, you may contact the site administrator at [email protected].

Anything that a patron chooses to provide to the sites is licensed, by default under CC BY-SA, and can be revoked in the future. Any tags, contributions, transcriptions or comments should be in the spirit of UBCIC's mandate and the Library and Archives ethical research policy.

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