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BC ELN-BCHDP Support Service

How can we help you?

The BC ELN - BCHDP Support Service is provided by staff at the BC Electronic Library Network (BC ELN), BC's consortium of post-secondary libraries. Our staff have years of experience helping small organizations participate in the provincial library services we run. We are leveraging this expertise to support small galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) in providing public access to digitized content.

The BC ELN-BCHDP Support Service can help you:

  • apply for a BCHDP grant to digitize your materials
  • plan your digitization project
  • host your digitized materials in the Arca provincial digital repository
    • perform batch upload of your digitized materials to Arca
    • customize the display of your collection (within Arca guidelines)
    • publicize your Arca collection

This support is available to BCHDP grant recipients at no cost through to 2027 thanks to a partnership between BC ELN and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC. To provide this critical support, BC ELN draws on a pool of experienced senior staff and engages library school students and contractors from the GLAM sector.

Participation

BC’s small libraries, archives, museums, galleries and historical associations applying for BCHDP grants are eligible to receive BC ELN support during the grant application process. Additionally, organizations can access no-cost hosting for their BCHDP-funded materials in the Arca provincial digital repository through the BCHDP-Arca Hosting Initiative.

Though the Early Notice Survey for support for the 2026-27 grant cycle has now closed, interested parties are welcome to contact us with any questions or requests for support at digisupport[at]bceln.ca.

News

BC ELN and IKBLC initiated this partnership in 2021 to meet a shared commitment of supporting the research and learning needs of those across the province by enriching online historical collections.

BCHDP grant applicants benefitting from BC ELN support

2025/26

  • Clayoquot Biosphere Trust Society*
  • Kaatza Station Museum & Archives*
  • Mascall Dance Society
  • S.U.C.C.E.S.S.*
  • Sointula Museum and Historical Society*
  • South Asian Studies Institute*
  • Swedish Heritage in British Columbia*

2024/25

  • 5th (BC) Artillery Regiment RCA Foundation*
  • BC Labour Heritage Centre Society*
  • Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art*
  • Kaatza Station Museum and Archives*
  • Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin*
  • Swedish Heritage in British Columbia*

2023/24

  • Alder Grove Heritage Society*
  • Kaatza Station Museum and Archives*
  • Pacific Mountain Regional Council Archives*
  • South Asian Studies Institute*
  • Vancouver Maritime Museum
  • Vancouver Police Museum and Archives*

2022/23

  • Alder Grove Heritage Society*
  • Alert Bay Public Library*
  • BC Forest Discovery Centre*
  • Centre for Socialist Education*
  • Heritage Abbotsford Society
  • North Vancouver District Public Library*
  • Selkirk College*
  • Society for the Museum of Original Costume*
  • Tofino Clayoquot Heritage Museum*

2021/22

  • Société historique francophone de la Colombie-Britannique
  • Society for the Museum of Original Costume

* Denotes successful grant applicants

Interested? Contact us!