Libraries Staff Publications

2019-03-05

Sam Popowich

This document gathers together all the Red Librarian blog posts from 2016-2018. This collection has not been edited, it's simply there to provide a searchable archive of the blogposts.

2018-

Sam Popowich

This was an article I wrote in 2007 and published in the Dalhousie Journal of Information Management (now the Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management). I wanted to preserve a copy here.

2018-06-01

Quaiattini, Andrea; Tan, Maria C.; Campbell, Sandy

Storytelling is a way that many Indigenous peoples pass on history, traditions, knowledge, and wisdom from one generation to another (Dumas, 2013). Indigenous authors use storytelling to share contemporary knowledge with young people as well. Nowhere is this more apparent than in how Indigenous...

2018-11-10

Polkinghorne, Sarah

Wearable technology has been a news-friendly trend in the past decade, particularly given the popularity of, and attendant concerns with, digital fitness trackers. One type of wearable technology, the GoPro camera, has become widely known for enabling first-person views of athletic feats such as...

2018-06-29

Tan, Maria C; Campbell, Sandy; Quaiattini, Andrea

This list of children's fiction by Canadian Indigenous authors was selected for content related to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Calls to Action.

2018-10-02

Wakaruk, Amanda

This article originally appeared in the October 2018 issue of Open Shelf magazine. Open Shelf is the official magazine of the Ontario Library Association, published for members and the larger community as a continuing education service to provide information about trends and issues affecting the...

2018-01-01

Farnel, Sharon, Koufogiannakis, Denise, Laroque, Sheila, Bigelow, Ian, Carr-Wiggin, Anne, Feisst, Debbie, Lar-Son, Kayla

This paper describes the Decolonizing Description Working Group at the University of Alberta Libraries, including its genesis and work, final report and recommendations, and followup work done to date.

2018-12-04

Julien, Heidi, McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.), Polkinghorne, Sarah, Chabot, Roger

Introduction. This study examines how "users" (i.e., research participants) are constructed in the empirical research reported at the ISIC [Information Seeking in Context] conference between 1996 and 2016 (n=194). Method. The study uses content analysis to examine variables relating to...

2018-03-27

Sam Popowich

This article looks at librarianship from a Marxist economic perspective, arguing that crises within the profession are due to material changes in the organization of production and labour relations. These changes are part of a transition from one “regime of accumulation” (industrial, Fordist,...

2018-06-29

Tan, Maria C; Campbell, Sandy; Quaiattini, Andrea

This is a selected list of children's fiction by Canadian Indigenous authors, selected for content related to residential schools.