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A grassroots approach to OER adoption: The University of Saskatchewan experience
(Pacific University Press, 2018-11)We intend this book to act as a guide writ large for would-be champions of OER, that anyone—called to action by the example set by our chapter authors—might serve as guides themselves. The following chapters tap into the ... -
Back to basics: Supporting digital humanities and community collaboration using the core strength of the academic library
(Digital Library Perspectives, 2018)Purpose: To describe how academic libraries can support digital humanities (DH) research by leveraging established library values and strengths to provide support for preservation and access and physical and digital spaces ... -
University Library Report on the Ithaka S+R Study on Improving Library Resources and Services for Indigenous Studies Scholars: University of Saskatchewan Context
(University Library, University of Saskatchewan, 2018-11)The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) Library is one of twelve institutions across Turtle Island / North America participating in a project with the goal of understanding how academic libraries can best support the ... -
Effective practices and strategies for open access outreach: A qualitative study
(2018)INTRODUCTION There are many compelling reasons to make research open access (OA), but raising the awareness of faculty and administrators about OA is a struggle. Now that more and more funders are introducing OA policies, ... -
Invisible Paywalls: Recognizing Information Privilege in Academia
(Teaching and Learning Today Conference 2018, 2018-05-01)Academic libraries work hard to make access to online journals as seamless as possible for their campus communities. So much so that students (and some faculty) are typically unaware that paywalls to this content exist for ... -
Communicating Cancellations to Campus: Strategies Across Canada
(Ontario Library Association Super Conference, 2018-01-31)Discover the trends and strategies that emerged from a content analysis of CARL libraries communications around cancellations considering change management. -
Local Music Collecting in Canadian Cultural Heritage Institutions: A Summary of Recent Research
(2018-11-09)English abstract: Local music provides evidence of community norms and insight into broader historical and cultural contexts. Collections of local music represent delimited geographic regions through documentary artifacts ... -
The prevalence of green and grey open access: Where do physical science researchers archive their publications?
(Springer, 2018)The Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) implemented an open access policy for its grant recipients in 2008. We used bibliographic data from the Web of Science to find out how CIHR-funded researchers in the physical ... -
A New Student Learning Focus for the Academic Library: From Geographical Proximity of the Learning Commons to Organizational Proximity within the Library
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-08-09)In 2015 student learning programs at the University of Saskatchewan moved organizationally to the university library. While these services resided physically in the library as part of the Learning Commons partnership, this ... -
A Re-examination of Online Journal Quality and Investigation of the Possible Impact of Poor Electronic Surrogate Quality on Researchers
(2018-08-24)Objective – This study re-examines the findings of a paper (Ladd, 2010) that investigated whether evidence indicated print equivalent journal collections needed to be preserved, based on the quality of their electronic ... -
Adapting realist synthesis methodology: The case of workplace harassment interventions
(2017)Realist synthesis techniques can be used to assess complex interventions by extracting and synthesizing configurations of contexts, mechanisms, and outcomes found in the literature. Our novel and multi‐pronged approach to ... -
ARChive: Artist-run centres as information resources
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Findings from a survey on local music collecting and collections in Canadian libraries
(2018-07-26)Local music holds tangible meaning in the form of evidence of historical events, development of musical practices, documentation technologies, cultural artefacts, It also holds intangible meaning in the form of associations ... -
Sounds of Home: Local Music Collections & Collecting in Canada
(Concordia University Library's 16th Annual Research Forum, 2018-04-27)This presentation describes a multi-year SSHRC-funded research study on local music collecting: Sounds of Home: Exploring Local Music Collections and Collecting in Canada. Our research presents a significant opportunity ... -
Collecting Local Music in Canadian Libraries: A National Survey
(Canadian Association of Music Libraries, 2018-05-31)Local music artifacts are often unpublished or independently produced, making them difficult to collect. Local music collectors in libraries may encounter barriers in obtaining and preserving them. This has resulted in a ... -
Protecting Privacy in the Archives: Preliminary Explorations of Topic Modeling for Born-Digital Collections
(IEEE, 2017-12)Natural language processing (NLP) is an area of increased interest for digital archivists, although most research to date has focused on digitized rather than born-digital collections. This study in progress explores whether ... -
Reflections on the future of the archival community
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Lonesome Dreamer: The Life of John G. Neihardt by Timothy G. Anderson - Book Review
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Developing Local Digital Collections: A collaborative approach to the preservation and access of artist-run centre archives
(2018-05-26)The rapid growth of opensource, online technology over the past decade has made the development of digital resources accessible to groups and communities of all sizes. The ability to preserve and access cultural heritage ... -
Community Engaged Digital Initiatives: Building Academic Library Services and Infrastructure with Faculty and Community Collaborators
(2018 Digital Initiatives Symposium, University of San Diego Copley Library, 2018-05-24)Community collaborations have become key drivers for the development of our library’s digital initiatives (DI) program. While collaborative partnerships can complicate the process of getting DI work completed, they can ...