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Piloting a Library-Led Online Academic Skills Orientation Program
(Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2023-06-08)In August 2021, we piloted an online academic skills orientation program for incoming undergraduate and graduate students. The program featured a range of synchronous online sessions that provided students an opportunity ... -
CAML Collections Committee BIPOC Canadian Composers Shared Collecting Plan
(2023-05-19)Building on the BIPOC Canadian Composers project (Doi & Hilts, 2022), the CAML Collections Committee has begun to develop a plan to systematically collect the works of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Canadian ... -
Drag Story Time for Adults
(2023-05-04)The University of Saskatchewan Library hosted their first Drag Story Time for Adults in June of 2022. Building on the concept of Drag Story Hour, where Drag Queens and Kings read books to kids, this event was aimed at an ... -
Affirming Self, Affirming Community: Outreach in the Spirit and Memory of Neil Richards
(2023-07-01)The Neil Richards Collection of Sexual and Gender Diversity was established in 2010 and contains more than 8,000 unique items. Neil Richards spent his life and career at the University of Saskatchewan preserving LGBT history ... -
a campfire story: eResources management as a team
(2023-03-09)In early 2020, we gathered our eResources documentation together on a secure wiki and committed to updating & standardizing. Since then, these documents have helped train new members, manage work, iterate and improve ... -
Indigenous Studies Library Collection Development Toolkit
(University of Saskatchewan, 2023-02-21)This toolkit is one of the outputs of my 6-month sabbatical in 2022, when I conducted an online survey of librarians' experiences with doing selection for Indigenous Studies materials in academic libraries across Western ... -
Local Music Collectors in Cultural Heritage Organizations: Finding Joy through Occupational Devotion
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022)Local music collecting in cultural heritage organizations is a rich practice for the study of joy and information. This article examines the joyful and personally meaningful experiences of local music collectors, as drawn ... -
Representation matters: Developing a Canadian BIPOC composers dataset for music collection evaluation and development
(2022-03-04)The music profession and industry, especially in traditions of western art music, is marked noticeably by a lack of compositions by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC). This lack of representation is just one ... -
Two Case Studies of Open Video Design in the Remote Learning Environment
(KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic caused many post-secondary institutions to close abruptly in early 2020, and instructors were expected to transition to remote online instruction with little notice. For many instructors, hastily ... -
What does the community want from their public library?: Getting in touch with non-users
(2022-04-20)In 2020, the Prince Albert Public Library Board set a new strategic plan that included developing a community research program. The Library Director began working with a researcher from the University of Saskatchewan, a ... -
The BIPOC Canadian Composers dataset: A tool for inclusive music collection assessment
(2022-06-07)There is much rhetoric in academic libraries around the need to dismantle systemic oppressive structures while making space for diverse voices. Academic music library collections have traditionally held materials supporting ... -
Untapped Author’s Rights: Figure Reuse Allowances in Content Licenses
(2022-04-28)Communicating with university communities about the many details in library license agreements can be a challenge, but it is necessary in order for the community to benefit from the rights negotiated. We are undertaking a ... -
Investigating Science Researchers’ Presence on Academic Profile Websites: A case study of a Canadian research university
(2020-09-24)Researchers are increasingly using academic profile websites to organize and showcase their research outputs. Using the faculty at the science departments of the University of Saskatchewan, Canada as the study object, this ... -
STEM Librarians’ Presence on Academic Profile Websites
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-03-16)This study explores STEM librarians’ presence on academic profile websites (APWs) at American and Canadian research universities. It was found that Google Scholar Citations was the most used APW, followed by ResearchGate, ... -
New SciComm Services for Researchers: Knowledge Translation, Public Relations, or “Predatory” Publishing?
(2021-07-22)Like many science librarians I regularly receive concerned emails from faculty asking whether certain publishers or journals are “predatory.” In recent years however a growing number of these inquiries have been regarding ... -
Adapting your research design: When the best laid plans go awry
(Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), 2020-10)Structured around a specific research project, this chapter tells the story of learning to be a reflective researcher. It acknowledges the emotions that are often part of the research process, the importance of adapting ... -
When tradition meets technology: Curating purposeful digital collections and tools for learning oral traditions
(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2019)An essential prerequisite for ethnocultural and diaspora communities to preserve their oral traditions is the willful acceptance and learning of these traditions by successive generations. Thus transmission of oral traditions ... -
Local Music Collections in Cultural Heritage Institutions: A Qualitative Systematic Review
(Fontes Artis Musicae, 2018)Artifacts of local music scenes are increasingly being collected and documented in cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, archives, and museums. Managing local music materials requires specialisation that falls ...
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