KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies is published by the University of Victoria Libraries. We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
Editorial Team
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Jonathan Bengtson, University of Victoria Libraries
Jonathan Bengtson is University Librarian at the University of Victoria, Chair of the Coalition of Canadian Digital Heritage, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His impact has led to transformative changes in the profession and practice of librarianship— including advances in open access to knowledge and data, pioneering digitization initiatives and building national publishing and preservation infrastructure. Among numerous equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives, he established Canada’s first Associate University Librarian for Reconciliation. During more than twenty-five years of international leadership, Bengtson has helped position academic libraries and library organizations as integral partners in research and learning during a time of profound change with the shift from analogue to digital-based knowledge systems. Founder of KULA, Bengtson’s work largely focusses on the intersections of knowledge production and technological change.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-6955
Samantha MacFarlane, PhD, MLIS, University of Victoria Libraries
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2956-8316
Editorial Board
Stacy Allison-Cassin, Assistant Professor, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University
Susan Brown, Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Digital Scholarship, University of Guelph; Visiting Professor in English and Humanities Computing, University of Alberta
Leslie Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Global Development Studies; Director, Knowledge Equity Lab, University of Toronto Scarborough
Isto Huvila, Chair of Information Studies, Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies, and Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies), Uppsala University; Adjunct Professor, Information Management in the Department of Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University; Visiting Professor in Library, Archival, and Information Studies, UBC iSchool
Fidelia Ibekwe, Professor of information Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, Aix-Marseille University; Editor-in-Chief, Education for information
Masud Khokhar, University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds
Jessie Loyer, Indigenous Engagement Librarian, University of Alberta
Laura Mandell, Professor, Department of English, Texas A&M University; Director, Advanced Research Consortium (ARC)
Veli Mitova, Professor and Director of the African Centre of Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg
Emily Christina Murphy, Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities; Director, ReMedia Infrastructure for Research and Creation, University of British Columbia - Okanagan
Cameron Neylon, Professor of Research Communication, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University
Élika Ortega, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado Boulder
Miriam Posner, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Studies, UCLA
Susan Schreibman, Professor, Literature & Art, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
Ali Shiri, Professor, School of Library and Information Studies and Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta
Deb Verhoeven, Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics, University of Alberta; Director, Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) Project
Sally Wyatt, Professor of Digital Cultures in Development Technology & Society Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
Past Board Members
Guy Berthiaume, Librarian and Archivist of Canada Emeritus
Chad Gaffield, Professor and University Research Chair in Digital Scholarship, Department of History, University of Ottawa
Lisa Goddard, Associate University Librarian, Advanced Research Services, University of Victoria Libraries
Charles Henry, President, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
Bethany Nowviskie, Dean of Libraries and Professor of English, James Madison University
Seamus Ross, Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Ray Siemens, Distinguished Professor, Department of English, University of Victoria; Director, Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE), Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), and Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL)
John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor of Education, Stanford University; Professor of Publishing Studies, Simon Fraser University; Director, Public Knowledge Project