EXECUTIVE

Emerging out of the BC Government's Core review, the BCDL was first announced on April 17, 2014. Since then, the initiative has gained momentum with engagement across the GLAM sector - galleries, libraries, archives and museums... The West Beyond the West portal has influenced aspects of the BCDL discussion. This portal provided free and open access to British Columbia's digitized historical collections as a scoped search of Canadiana.org . The portal has now been decommissioned; the collections from West Beyond the West continue to be available through Canadiana.org and member websites.