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The 5K run toolkit : a quick, painless, and thoughtful approach to managing print journal backruns
(Elsevier Inc., 2009)Increasingly, academic libraries are choosing to discard or place in storage online-available print journal backruns. The identification of these titles and related collection analysis activities are often time-intensive. ... -
Aboriginal students in Canada: a case study of their academic information needs and library use
(Haworth Information Press, 2001)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 ... -
The Academic Librarian as the Missing Link: Sustainable leadership and the discipline of librarianship for a 21st century profession
(2016-06)This paper addresses all four conference themes by focusing on the critical topic of the professional practice knowledge, skills, and abilities for the 21st century academic librarian. Drawing on the results of national ... -
Academic librarians have concerns about their role as teachers
(University of Alberta Learning Services, 2008)Objective - This study explores how academic librarians are introduced to teaching, the degree to which they think of themselves as teachers, the ways in which being a teacher has become a significant feature of their ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
All together now!: integrating virtual reference in the academic library
(American Library Association Production Services, 2011)Although much as appeared in the literature regarding the initiation of virtual reference services, to date a case study discussing online reference service's integration into an academic library's current suite of reference ... -
An alternative to the hand searching gold standard: validating methodological search filters using relative recall
(BioMed Central, 2006)Background Search filters or hedges play an important role in evidence-based medicine but their development depends on the availability of a "gold standard" - a reference standard against which to establish the performance ... -
American nightmare: images of brainwashing, thought control, and terror in Soviet Russia
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)During the earliest and most frigid years of the Cold War, 1947-1953, the overwhelming majority of American's media and public opinion promoted the idea that Soviet society was something close to a complete " dystopia." ... -
Applying the Flipped Classroom Methodology in a First-Year Undergraduate Music Research Methods Course
(Music Reference Services Quarterly, 2016-05-21)Online learning environments and teaching tools are becoming increasingly present on University campuses and continue to impact the way information literacy instruction is delivered. The flipped classroom is a methodology ... -
ARChive: Artist-run centres as information resources
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Archiving: Needs Analysis for Artist-Run Centres' Archives
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Artist Run Centre Archives: Nontraditional Digital Archiving in a Non-Profit Art Community
(2015-11-13)Lower technical barriers to entry have increasingly placed the development of digital archives within the reach of smaller organizations; but creating and appropriately maintaining digital archives takes time, money, and ... -
Artist-Run Archives: Developing a digital community archive with PAVED Arts artist-run centre
(2017-03-31)This case study details my partnership with PAVED Arts, an ARC in Saskatoon, Canada dedicated to supporting photography, audio, video, electronic, and digital arts. In this presentation I discuss how we designed a usable ... -
Assessing organizational culture: moving towards organizational change and renewal [article]
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Assessment of the Research Learning Needs of the University of Saskatchewan Librarians : A Case Study
(College & Research Libraries, 2012)As academic librarians with faculty status increasingly embrace research engagement as a core value and requirement, one of the little studied questions is the extent to which they possess the requisite knowledge and ...