Liu, Shu, authorThe Haworh Press, Inc., publisher2007-01-032007-01-032007Technical Services Quarterly 25, no. 1 (November 2007): 1-17http://hdl.handle.net/10217/540Final, peer-reviewed manuscript.People of Chinese origin have lived in British Columbia, Canada, since the beginning of non-aboriginal settlement. Many of them have left Chinese-language records that are valuable for the study of Chinese immigrant history. This article provides information about a pilot project completed at the Asian Library of the University of British Columbia to build a learning-object repository using an archival collection of historical Chinese language materials. The collection supports the undergraduate curriculum Chinese-Canadian history. This article introduces the definition and characteristics of learning objects and learning-objects metadata resulting from the project's investigation and the author's experience with selecting and testing systems to develop a prototype of a learning-object repository.born digitalarticleseng©2005 Haworth Press, Inc. http://www.HaworthPress.com.Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.archival collectionsChinese-Canadian historyhistorical Chinese language materials in British Columbialearning objectslearning-object metadatalearning-object systemHCLMBCAsian LibraryPloneCAREOUniversity of British ColumbiaTexthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J124v25n01_01