Journal Articles (Library & Information Studies)

2016-10-04

McNally, Michael B

This presentation provides some basic information on Open Educational Resources (OER), discusses the roles of libraries/librarians and addresses some considerations in designing and using OER.

2014-05-28

McNally, Michael B.

A presentation to University of Alberta Libraries on the role of academic libraries in relation to open educational resources (OER).

2017-04-05

McNally, Michael B

This presentation provides a brief overview of participatory research methods and some examples of participatory research projects undertaken at the University of Alberta in both the Master of Arts in Communications and Technologies (MACT) and Master of Library and Information Studies programs....

2008

Mackey, Margaret, McClay, Jill K.

This article explores what teachers and students can learn about contemporary story-telling from a study of fan fiction – that is, stories created by readers and viewers out of the canonical material of previously published fictions. Drawing on the example of Pirates of the Caribbean, it...

2012

Shiri, Ali

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role of thesauri in search user interfaces across a range of information search and retrieval systems—from bibliographic and full-text databases to digital libraries, portals, open archives, and content management systems. It explores various...

2010

Mackey, Margaret

Children learn to read at approximately the same stage in life as they start to master their physical environment. This article argues that some of the same mapping and schema-building strategies inform each activity, and draws on examples from a broad range of children’s books to support the...

2004

Mackey, Margaret

The concept of reading and the concept of the book seem like natural partners. Many icons designed to express the idea of reading include a book as an essential information-bearing

2015-06-04

Wakaruk, Amanda, Davoodi, Danoosh, McNally, Michael B.

This paper examines the Government of Canada’s Web Renewal Initiative and impact on the provision of web based government information. A content analysis of documents received through Access to Information requests reveals the government’s limited timelines for providing access to web content.

2015-06-01

Shiri, Ali, Stobbs, Robyn, Farnel, Sharon, Cockney, Cathy, Rathi, Dinesh, Campbell, Sandy

This project seeks to: 1. Investigate and identify the information needs and information seeking behaviour of community members in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. 2. Identify and select cultural heritage information. 3. Create a culturally appropriate metadata framework for resource...

2022-01-01

Jiwa, Nawazali A.

The problem of bias in Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) has been the focus of numerous ‘radical cataloging’ studies. This study examines the use of the term sect as it is applied to the Shīʿī (or Shīʿa) branch of Islam in various KOSs including the Library of Congress Subject Headings...