FIP 2020
Items in this Collection
- 2Kathleen Oliver
- 1Allison Easton
- 1Ashley Edwards
- 1Christian Isbister
- 1Emily Villanueva
- 1Jennifer McDevitt
- 1Academic libraries
- 1Assemblage Theory
- 1Catalog usability
- 1Critical Cataloguing
- 1Critical pedagogy
- 1Culturally Appropriate Metadata
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"Tomorrow I Will be Better": A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Diet Communities on Reddit
Download2020-02-07
As the advancement of the Internet has led to rapid growth in online communities, diet forums have been no exception. However, there has been minimal comparative and discursive research conducted on the relationship between user identity and information behaviours between forums. The objective of...
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2020-02-07
Adopted in the late 1930s, the Library Bill of Rights grounded the profession in the core value of intellectual freedom. This core value was challenged in the 1930s, the 1960s, the 1990s, and again in recent years by calls for social responsibility within our ranks. The re-occurrent discomfort...
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2020-02-07
Wikipedia has integrated into our information seeking needs and is a successful application of collaborative information production; however, with this combination, Wikipedia articles become susceptible to one-sided control with potentially negative impacts on our information gathering. Without a...
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2020-02-07
Controlled vocabulary subject headings are key elements to ensure consistent cataloguing across different institutions. Unfortunately, the language used in controlled vocabularies to describe library materials by and about Indigenous peoples does not always reflect terms Indigenous peoples use to...
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2020-02-07
Allison Easton, Katherine Wells
In this presentation, we discuss some of the information needs that refugees experience in refugee camps, based on a literature review. We aim to identify both the ways that refugees are meeting these information needs, as well as services that might partner with refugees in order to improve...
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2020-02-07
Even as we understand the labour, health, and environmental hazards of the technology industry, it increasingly roots itself in our daily lives and modes of being. The library space and services has likewise shifted to meet these changing needs, while still holding core values in sustainability...
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Resilient or Resistant Librarians?: An Exploration of "Resilience" Discourses In Contemporary Librarianship
Download2020-02-07
This presentation explores discourses of "resilience" in contemporary librarianship, analyzing the term using excerpts from "Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously" by Brad Evans and Julian Reid. What might it mean about this historical moment in librarianship - and in society at large -...
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Words That Start With E and Other Reasons for Librarians to Fight Climate Change and Climate Change Denial
Download2020-02-07
Ecology, economy, equity. Exemplars, educators, enablers. Librarianship centres around the values of community-building, access to information, and advocating for the public good, and so librarians are poised to be leaders when it comes to environmentally-friendly and sustainable practices and...