Jonathan Bengtson
University Librarian
University of Victoria
Jonathan Bengtson is the University Librarian at the University of Victoria. He is the immediate Past President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and the current chair of the executive committee of the National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS). Jonathan is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the international, peer-reviewed, open access journal KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies and the 2021 recipient of the Ron McDonald Distinguished Service Award by CRKN. Jonathan has been a library director in Canada, the US, and the UK over the past 25 years.
Presenting at the following sessions
October 15, 2021
1:00pm
In this session, Jonathan Bengtson, Chair of the NHDS Executive Committee, and Carole Urbain, Chair of the NHDS Advisory Committee, will provide an update on the NHDS strategic planning process to date, and share results of a community survey and open community calls. We hope to engage and inform attendees on this important national initiative as we move forward to a new strategic plan.
