Phone: 306-966-7209
Fax: 306-966-6040
Email:darlene.fichter@usask.ca

Main Library
University of Saskatchewan
3 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7N 5A4

Digital Projects

I am the Manager for the Indigenous Studies Portal prototype.

Saskatchewan News Index is 99% complete in the fall of 2000 with almost all volumes of the main print indexes of Saskatchewan daily newspapers from 1883 to the 1998 in digital form.

Canadian Directory of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Collections is a joint project of the Library and Information Needs of Native People's Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association, the Departmental Library of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada in cooperation with University of Saskatchewan Libraries. In 2002, we added a email and postal adddress directory page.

Herstory wins the University of Saskatchewan People's Choice Award, May 1998.

Directory of Special Collectons of Research Value / Répertoire des collections spécialisées utiles à la recherche dans les bibliothèques canadiennes is one of the first digital collections created using a web database. This early digital project has now been updated and is housed by the National Library of Canada at http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/collectionsp/spcol_e.htm.

Herstory Une Exposition / An Exposition is a popular site and was created in 1996.

Northwest Resistance 1885 contains a number of manuscirpts and broadsides from the 1880's.

Saskatchewan News Index - The Top 100 Stories in Saskatchewan's History. This is an extensive multi-phase, mulit-index project that has been ongoing since 1992. Over 500,000 records have been digitzied. When completed, the index will cover from 1883 to the present.

Resources for Aboriginal Studies includes full text native law cases project and databases of materials related to native studies including archival manuscripts and photographs.