Libraries Staff Publications
This collection contains publications of staff at the University of Alberta Libraries.
Items in this Collection
- 3Academic libraries
- 2Government information
- 1Academic librarians
- 1Academic librarianship
- 1Access conference
- 1Advocacy
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“The Power of Knowledge, Objectified”: Immaterial Labor, Cognitive Capitalism, and Academic Librarianship
“The Power of Knowledge, Objectified”: Immaterial Labor, Cognitive Capitalism, and Academic Librarianship
Download2020-02-03
This article analyzes current trends in academic librarianship from the perspective of Italian autonomist Marxism. With the rise of new technologies and the advent of a period variously called the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Industry 4.0”, and “The Second Machine Age,” academic librarianship...
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Assessment of the Research Learning Needs of University of Saskatchewan Librarians: A Case Study
Download2011-05-14
Vicki Williamson, Alvin M Schrader, Ali Shiri
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 skills to conduct high quality research and scholarship, and what further...
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2016-04-16
The purpose of this paper is to present a case study that considers the links between cost avoidance, lean design and sustainability in relation to two different library projects at University of Alberta Libraries (UAL) - the design of the Research & Collections Resource Facility and the...
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Research is a verb: Exploring a new information literacy-embedded undergraduate research methods course
Download2010-05-01
Polkinghorne, Sarah, Wilton, Shauna
This paper introduces a potential solution to widespread and longstanding concerns about undergraduates’ research, writing, and critical thinking skills: a new activity-based, discipline-specific research methods course. This paper details the course's design and explores the course's...
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Roving Reference with iPads: a study of the use of iPads as technological support and service assessment
Download2011-05-26
Abstract: Libraries continue to put effort into providing on-line and self-serve access to materials to reflect changing technological possibilities and expectations. Online solutions work for offsite and internet connected patrons but many patrons still physically work in library space, may not...
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Truth Machines: The Political Economy of Command and Control
2017-09-14
This article looks at the socio-economic context of Gilles Deleuze's "Postscript on the Societies of Control", and interrogates the technological underpinning of the shift from discipline to control in the centres of advanced capitalism. The paper argues that developments in computer science and...