Journal Articles (Library & Information Studies)

2013-09-26

Schrader, Alvin M.

Presentation to LIS 541. LIS SERVICES IN CULTURALLY DIVERSE SOCIETY in the MLIS program, University of Alberta, on key themes of: - Situating LGBTQ (sexual & gender variant) communities internationally; in the Canadian mosaic; in Canadian library & information services -Key resources for...

2017-01-09

McNally, Michael B

This is the third lecture from the Winter 2017 offering of LIS 598 Information Policy. This lecture covers trends and influences on information policy. The lecture is available as a PowerPoint with audio or video (.wmv) file. All of the underlying files including the text of the audio is...

2015-04-28

Szostak, Rick

Any classification system should be evaluated with respect to a variety of philosophical and practical concerns. This paper explores several distinct issues: the nature of a work, the value of a statement, the contribution of information science to philosophy, the nature of hierarchy, ethical...

2013-01-01

Jiwa, Nawazali A.

This bibliographic study identifies over 600 secondary sources published up to and including 2003 that have been omitted in previous bibliographies in Ismaili studies, namely, Farhad Daftary’s "Ismaili Literature: A Bibliography of Sources and Studies" (London, 2004) and Nagib Tajdin’s "A...

2016-10-19

Anna Wilson MEd., MLIS

Anna Wilson, University of Alberta The United Nations guiding principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities includes non- discrimination, full participation, and inclusion in society. Unfortunately, many scholars with disabilities are not represented in the academic and...

2008

Mackey, Margaret

Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope, the representation of a particular time and space in an artistic work, is used to explore connections between Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery, 1908) and Elijah of Buxton (2007). Written a century apart, these novels both feature an eleven-year-old protagonist...

2000

Mackey, Margaret

Mackey discusses the impact of television on young viewers by tracing Arthur the Aardvark's transformation--and influence on children--from a literary creation to the popular hero of a daily TV show and a Web page to an ActiMate doll.

2024-07-09

Ali Shiri

The purpose of this paper is to propose a taxonomy of artificial intelligence (AI) literacy to support AI literacy education and research. This study makes use of the facet analysis technique and draws upon various sources of data and information to develop a taxonomy of AI literacy. The research...

2012

Shiri, Ali , Schrader, Alvin , Williamson, Vicki

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...

2011-05-14

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...