Organization
BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA)
Email
fipa@fipa.bc.ca and employment@fipa.bc.ca
Address
Remote
Supervising Librarian/Archivist
Name: Alexandra Wieland
Day-to-day supervision Jason Woywada, Executive Director
Purpose of the project:
- FIPA is a non-partisan, non-profit society that was established in 1991 to promote and defend freedom of information and privacy rights in Canada.
- The News Monitoring, Transparency Spotlight and E-Library Professional Experience is focused on updates and refinement to FIPA’s Transparency Spotlight and News Monitoring resources – which highlights relevant Canadian and International news stories related to ATI/Privacy and related fields, and the E-Library a reference library of FIPA and third-party publications.
Summary of activities required to carry out the project:
- Updating and maintaining FIPA’s E-Library on the FIPA website.
- Applying and refining a defined methodology to execute external scans using content aggregation system
- Development, refinement, and expansion of FIPA’s resource discovery and search methodologies.
- Updating FIPA’s News Monitoring web resource page weekly.
- Applying and refining a defined methodology to execute external scans using content aggregation system.
- This may include analyzing, summarizing, and extracting key information from identified news stories. Development, refinement, and expansion of FIPA’s resource discovery and search methodologies.
- Other duties as assigned.
Preferred skills:
- Experience using Microsoft Suite – Word, Teams, SharePoint, WordPress, etc.
- Experience with WordPress
- Familiarity with Boolean Operations
- Familiarity with ProQuest, Feedly as well as Canadian Press Command News / NewsPro or similar programs is a benefit.
Expectations of the end result of the project, for both host and student:
- This position is 100% Remote. Hours can be flexible. Students will need to be available for a weekly meeting during work hours (Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm).
- The Student will have the opportunity to:
- Develop search methodologies related to Privacy, Access and related fields.
- Manage an open-source collection resource.
- Work with Proquest, Feedly, Command News, and other information capture and news indexing applications.
- Write and update workflows and policies as necessary.
Time periods in which the project could be supervised:
- Winter Term 2 (January – April)
Is there a deadline by which the project must be completed?
- Ongoing
Considering the project requirements, please suggest suitable coursework as pre-requisite or co-requisite:
Required:
Completion of the Library Core Courses.
Preferred:
- LIBR 510 – Taxonomies: Research and Evaluation
- LIBR 580 – Collection Management
- LIBR 581 – Digital Libraries
Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis.