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Research malpractice
(HeinOnline, 1990) Whiteway, Ken
Prairie quires: the history of law reporting in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
(HeinOnline, 1993) Whiteway, Ken
Strategies for Searching Online Finding Aids: A Retrieval Experiment
(Association of Canadian Archivists, 1997) Hutchinson, Tim
The archival community has recently been increasing its efforts to establish a presence on the World Wide Web; one aspect of this of particular interest is the move to make finding aids available online. For example, the emerging Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard is one approach to this effort. This article is a report of a retrieval experiment, using finding aids available through the web sites at the San Diego and Berkeley campuses of the University of California, that was designed to test various methods of searching online archival descriptions. The precision and recall measures of four searching methods were compared: searching entire finding aids, searching introductory material to finding aids, searching introductory material to finding aids enhanced by controlled vocabulary terms, and searching collection-level catalogue records. As expected from similar studies in library and information science, recall increased and precision decreased as the length of the description increased. Significantly, however, the decrease in precision was sharper than the corresponding increase in recall, and the retrieval success of summary descriptions (introductory material and catalogue records) was higher than might have been expected. Implications of these findings, and suggestions for further research, are discussed.
Taking care of ergonomics: one library's experience
(CACUL, 1998) Currie, C. Lyn; Ritmiller, Laurel; Robinson, Dan
Paper presented at the CLA/CACUL session: Ergonomics or else. Victoria, CLA Annual Conference, June 1998
Archival access points: subjects and beyond - the North American experience
(1998-02-12) Hutchinson, Tim
The miracle of full-text searching: myth or reality?
(1999-06-03) Hutchinson, Tim
Facilitating adult learning: the role of the academic librarian
(Haworth Press, 2000) Currie, C. Lyn
This paper considers the instructional role of the academic librarian and examines the contribution adult learning theory makes to the practice of teaching information literacy skills. It explores those principles of effective practice in facilitating adult learning which apply to the teaching-learning transactions in the library. It describes the aim of facilitation as one of encouraging self directed, empowered adults and confirms the role of the academic librarian in facilitating the development of critical thinking, creative problem-solving and informed decision making in adult learners. It also examines the concept of information literacy and how this contributes to adult lifelong learning.
Librarian-scholars and the Boyer model
(2001) Fox, David; Fritz, Linda
Aboriginal students in Canada: a case study of their academic information needs and library use
(Haworth Information Press, 2001) Lee, Deborah
This study involved the use of personal interviews of six Aboriginal students at the University of Alberta in the fall of 1999. This article includes a brief literature review of other articles that consider adult Aboriginal people as library patrons and a section on Indigenous knowledge and values. Findings include three main concerns: a lack of Indigenous resources in the library system; a lack of resource or research development concerning Indigenous issues; and a lack of services recognizing the Indigenous values of "being in relationship" and reciprocity.
Subject access for the World Wide Web
(Ontario Library Association, 2001) Dahl, Candice
Electronic pathfinders in academic libraries: an analysis of their content and form
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2001) Dahl, Candice
Forty-five electronic pathfinders were selected from nine Canadian university libraries to assess their degree of conformity to suggested guidelines in the existing literature about pathfinders. The content and the format of the chosen pathfinders were assessed in terms of consistency and scope. Also considered were overall readability and whether they were effectively constructed to be used as starting points for further research. The analysis revealed that the guidelines were not uniformly followed, leaving some pathfinders more complex and less useful than others. Further, it demonstrated that specific guidelines must be created for electronic pathfinders because they pose particular problems that are not addressed in the current literature about pathfinders in general.
Attaining legitimacy: eighteenth century man-midwives and the rhetoric of their texts
(GATEWAY - An Academic History Journal on the Web, 2001) Dahl, Candice
The legal career of John G. Diefenbaker
(Saskatchewan Archives Board, 2001) Whiteway, Ken
Rules for Archival Description and Encoded Archival Description: Competing or Compatible Standards?
(2001-08-30) Hutchinson, Tim
Collection analysis techniques used to evaluate a graduate-level toxicology collection
(Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2002) Crawley-Low, Jill
Collections librarians from academic libraries are often asked, on short notice, to evaluate whether their collections are able to support changes in their institutions’ curricula, such as new programs or courses or revisions to existing programs or courses. With insufficient time to perform an exhaustive critique of the collection and a need to prepare a report for faculty external to the library, a selection of reliable but brief qualitative and quantitative tests is needed. In this study, materialscentered and use-centered methods were chosen to evaluate the toxicology collection of the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) Library. Strengths and weaknesses of the techniques are reviewed, along with examples of their use in evaluating the toxicology collection. The monograph portion of the collection was evaluated using list checking, citation analysis, and classified profile methods. Cost-effectiveness and impact factor data were compiled to rank journals from the collection. Use-centered methods such as circulation and interlibrary loan data identified highly used items that should be added to the collection. Finally, although the data were insufficient to evaluate the toxicology electronic journals at the U of S, a brief discussion of three initiatives that aim to assist librarians as they evaluate the use of networked electronic resources in their collections is presented.
Plug-ins and e-journals: how browser extensions transform electronic journal content and access
(2002) Kichuk, Diana
Presented at Transforming serials: the revolution continues, North American Serials Interest Group annual conference, Williamsburg, VA June 20-23 (2002)
Difficult library patrons in academe: it's all in the eye of the beholder
(Haworth Press, 2002) Currie, C. Lyn
Difficult patrons have been considered primarily from the perspective of the problem behaviours they present in libraries. Many have attempted to define the problem patron and to provide advice and develop guidelines for frontline public service staff. To understand the difficult patron in academic libraries we need to answer three questions - How well do we know our patrons? Do we unwittingly create difficult patrons through our failure to appreciate their needs? Do we regard patrons as difficult because the way they use libraries and conduct their information research does not match our idea of how it should be done? The answers to these questions suggest that we need to reconceptualize both our patrons and the services we provide. Library staff need to see difficult patrons not as problems but as challenges to the service ideas and standards we hold. A paradigm shift is necessary if we are to reconstruct our beliefs about our patrons, their information seeking behaviours and the services we provide to meet their needs. Some strategies for developing the skills of library staff to work effectively with difficult patrons are presented.
Canadian National Site Licensing Project: getting ready for CNSLP at the University of Saskatchewan Library
(Haworth Press, 2003) Fox, David; Lam, Vinh-The
The Canadian National Site Licensing Project (CNSLP) is a national effort by a consortium of 64 Canadian university libraries to provide access to full text electronic journals. The first part of this paper describes the organization, funding structure, and activities, including license negotiations, of the CNSLP. The second part of this paper deals with the technical and operational issues related to electronic journal management. It describes the process developed at the University of Saskatchewan for incorporating the CNSLP material into the Library's collections and finding tools. An assessment of the jake utility as a reliable source of metadata is also presented.
Encoded Archival Description on the Internet (review)
(Association of Canadian Archivists, 2003) Hutchinson, Tim
Scholars, managers, and the bird of academic status
(2003) Fox, David

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