Dana McFarland

MLIS (Library), MA (History)
Librarian & Coordinator, eResources & Scholarly Communication
Faculty: 
Library
Department: 
Library
Languages: 
English
Contact:
Contact through VIU Communications

Expertise

Open Access and open scholarly practices; digital stewardship and preservation of information contextualized by user and information rights; non-traditional collections

Fields

Library and information studies; scholarly communication

Research goals

My scholarly and professional practice are in constant conversation. A goal is always to evolve and deepen the quality of that conversation.

Articles

Building a community of web archiving practice in Canada: A recap of the CARL 2022 Symposium 
https://archive-it.org/blog/post/carl-2022-symposium-recap/

Hill, E. (2007). Creating Order in Ladysmith. Feliciter, 53(5), 264. https://ezproxy.viu.ca/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/creating-order-ladysmith/docview/223159014/se-2 
"When Dana McFarland arrived at the offices of the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group, she faced a librarian's nightmare. Hundreds of boxes of First Nations research papers, journal articles and legal opinions sat stacked, with no cataloguing and in no discernible order, in the Treaty Group's portable building on the outskirts of Ladysmith, B.C.
Amassing the documents was meant to give an information edge to negotiators seeking a self-governance treaty for the six First Nations represented within the Treaty Group. Instead, the papers became an incoherent burden eating into floor space and adding inertia to the notoriously slow pace of negotiations, now in year 14."

Personal or professional websites

https://library.viu.ca/danamcfarland

https://scholar.social/@danamcfarland