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			Digital Initiatives		After returning to Vancouver in 2007, I was appointed to a term position at Simon Fraser University as digital initiatives librarian. In this position I supervised the work of a large group of part-time student employees as they digitized print, microfilm and images. I also located and tested software, devised workflows, and created technical specifications. I made recommendations related to the creation, storage, and accessing of digitized materials. The largest project I worked on was the Multicultural Canada web site, a repository of primary materials on Canada's ethnic groups, contributed by six partner organizations. SFU was the lead partner and we had responsibility for the web interface, search capabilities, loading and maintenance of all materials, and server infrastructure. In addition to this, we contributed numerous collections, including the Chinese Times (Vancouver's longest-running Chinese daily newspaper) and two sets of oral history interviews with early Indo-Canadian settlers to B.C. Other projects included the ongoing thesis and dissertation scanning; creating accessible PDFs for students with vision or learning disabilities; and digital work requested by faculty or outside agencies. I continued in this position until June 2008.
	The New Canadian, a Vancouver Japanese-Canadian newspaper digitized as part of Multicultural Canada, in 1941, shortly before both its readers and publishers were interned in work camps, from which they continued to publish the newspaper.
					© 2006 Faith Jones