By LeBlanc, Michael on November 3, 2026
Note: This is a guest post by Michael LeBlanc, Senior Manager – Library Applications at UBC Information Technology. I was about five years and three hundred pages into my doctoral dissertation when I stumbled across Marcus Beck’s famous analysis of dissertation length at the University of Minnesota. Beck, then a doctoral student, published a 2013 […]
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By Vanessa Choy on October 6, 2026
Illustration by Vicki Hamilton, courtesy of Pixabay What are Persistent Identifiers? A persistent identifier (PID) is a unique code that identifies and links an entity (a person, place, or thing) across global digital infrastructures. PIDs are important to digital repositories like cIRcle because they support long-term identification and accessibility, directing a user to a source […]
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By Vanessa Choy on September 8, 2026
Marigolds in the Market © Ted McGrath CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 cIRcle holds many grant-funded and student works on oral histories of the Punjabi language and history. These items primarily contain footage of professionals, academics, and everyday citizens sharing their stories and knowledge on a variety of topics, such as the past and present Punjabi community […]
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By Vanessa Choy on July 21, 2026
Stacks © Edna Winti CC BY 2.0 Metadata is known as “data about data,” or descriptive information about an object to help make it discoverable and usable, among many other features. When scholarly material is deposited to cIRcle, the metadata is essential for making that content findable not only within Open Collections, but also on […]
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