Nobody changes the world through office chit-chat. Right? 👀

Well, a friendly water cooler chat between UVic Libraries' Transgender Archives Metadata Librarian Michael Radmacher and Kula's first International Visiting Fellow @Lambo, head of the @tibosl at @tibhannover, eventually led to a transatlantic connection with the Queerbrarians — a European network of LGBTQIA+ library professionals.

The result: a growing international network of Queer & Trans+ colleagues who support each other's work to put LGBTQIA+ communities' voices at the center of how their histories are preserved and shared.

Read Michael's reflection 👇

https://kulaacademy.ca/transconnections/

#Trans #Queer #Queerbrarians #TransRights #LGBTQIA2S #TransgenderArchives #CdnLib #UVic #Kula #GLAM

Nobody changes the world through office chit-chat. Right? 👀

Well, a friendly water cooler chat between UVic Libraries' Transgender Archives Metadata Librarian Michael Radmacher and Kula's first International Visiting Fellow @Lambo, head of the @tibosl at @tibhannover, eventually led to a transatlantic connection with the Queerbrarians — a European network of LGBTQIA+ library professionals.

The result: a growing international network of Queer & Trans+ colleagues who support each other's work to put LGBTQIA+ communities' voices at the center of how their histories are preserved and shared.

Read Michael's reflection 👇

https://kulaacademy.ca/transconnections/

#Trans #Queer #Queerbrarians #TransRights #LGBTQIA2S #TransgenderArchives #CdnLib #UVic #Kula #GLAM

What can a century of mountain photographs tell us about a rapidly changing world? 🏔️

The Mountain Legacy Project has spent nearly 30 years combining Library and Archives Canada collections, provincial archives, museum records, and repeat photography from historical vantage points to find out—and now it's a book.

Join us this Thursday (Feb 12, 7 PM) at UVic Libraries (Room A308, DSC) for the launch of Mountain Voices and a panel on why mountains matter and how awe can become action.

Free event, open to everyone. No expertise required - only curiosity. Stay for the reception after!

Register 👇
https://kulaacademy.ca/mountain/

#MountainLegacyProject #GLAM #UVic #Kula #EnvironmentalStudies #CdnLib
#photography #rephotography #VictoriaBC #yyj

Hello Fediverse! 👋

We are the Kula: Library Futures Academy, a transdisciplinary collider space and incubator at the University of Victoria Libraries.
We explore the changing nature of knowledge creation, preservation, and dissemination—asking what the "library of the future" truly looks like. 🔮

📍We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

Follow us for updates on:
🔹 Open Knowledge & Scholarship
🔹 Knowledge Resilience
🔹 Knowledge Democracy
🔹 Our Open Access KULA Journal

#Introduction #Libraries #CdnLib #UVic #AcademicMastodon #KnowledgeDemocracy #OpenKnowledge #OpenScholarship

Hello Fediverse! 👋

We are the Kula: Library Futures Academy, a transdisciplinary collider space and incubator at the University of Victoria Libraries.
We explore the changing nature of knowledge creation, preservation, and dissemination—asking what the "library of the future" truly looks like. 🔮

📍We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

Follow us for updates on:
🔹 Open Knowledge & Scholarship
🔹 Knowledge Resilience
🔹 Knowledge Democracy
🔹 Our Open Access KULA Journal

#Introduction #Libraries #CdnLib #UVic #AcademicMastodon #KnowledgeDemocracy #OpenKnowledge #OpenScholarship