DLI Toolkit – A Crash Course in being
the DLI Contact
The Statistics Canada/DLI Web site
Daniel Beaulieu, Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface
Jean Blackburn, Malaspina University-College
----------------------------------------------------------------------Based on « Site web de l’IDD » presentation by Philippe
Feredj, Université de Sherbrooke for Atelier de formation
IDD pour le Québec – (printemps 2004)
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OBJECTIVES
1. Provide new DLI members with an overview
of the DLI section of the StatsCan web site;
2. Provide « not so new » DLI members
with an overview of the DLI section of
the StatsCan web site.
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Let’s start our presentation with
Statistics Canada home page at
http://www.statcan.ca/start.html
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DLI MEMBERS
There are 66 fellow
liberationists ready
to help you.
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Very important to get
acquainted with people from
Ottawa.
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Don’t you feel special when
there is something just for you
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No need to archive all those
emails from the DLILIST.
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How to order a product?
Of course, I need a password.
But where is it?
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We have covered the « DLI Community » section. Let’s
have a look at the « DLI Collection ».
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The DLI Collection
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2002 & 2003 products are not listed here
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Useful if you want to download
from the Statcan FTP site.
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(bottom)
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To 36
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wages
Search limited to
titles & abstracts
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Maybe I should ask my user
to read some of this
literature.
Then I can download the data file.
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Is there more information in Bibliocat?
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Absence from work
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Let’s see the complete record.
Click here
BiblioCat offers basic information your user will need.
Observation: never underestimate a library catalogue
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Now, let’s go back to the « DLI Collection » web page
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How is this information useful? This file certainly needs some
explanations. Why and when should I open it?
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We have covered the « DLI collection », let’s have a
look at « Reports and reference material ».
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« Training material » this section’s heading should really
be called --Reports, reference and training material--
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Observations
• The DLI web site needs a more direct access from
StatsCan home page. Why not have a « University &
College data » link;
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Many sections need to be explained:
• The « Collection on the web » talk about Census
& geography files not available in this section but
doesn’t tell you where to find them (view);
• Reference are made to the « FTP collection » but
no explanation to where it is, what it contains and
how to get there? (view) ;
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Conclusion
I would like to conclude this presentation by asking some
questions to new and « not so new » data liberationists.
• Which sections of the DLI web site have been useful to
new DLI members?
• How the DLI web site is used by the « not so new »
DLI members?
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