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A Community-Driven Usability Evaluation: The Case of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Digital Library
Download2017
Stobbs, Robyn, Shiri, Ali, Farnel, Sharon, Cockney, Cathy, Rathi, Dinesh, Campbell, Sandy
This paper reports a usability evaluation study of the Digital Library North prototype that was conducted in May 2016. It proposes a culturally-aware and community-informed approach to the usability of digital libraries for Northern communities in Canada along with the emerging themes and the...
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2014-05-29
Jenkins, Tricia, Chatterley, Trish, Humphrey, Chuck, MacGregor, Neil, Nunn, Natasha, Storie, Dale, Qasim, Umar, Harder, Geoffrey, Shi, Weiwei, Roark, Kendall
To meet the needs of researchers in Alberta and Canada, the University of Alberta Libraries is launching a web-based application to help researchers with the data management planning process. This tool will allow researchers to quickly and efficiently create data management plans that address...
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2016-02-15
Rathi, Dinesh, Maloney, Elaine, Farnel, Sharon, Campbell, Sandy, Stobbs, Robyn, Shiri, Ali, Cockney, Cathy
Digital Library North (DLN) is an ongoing project with the overarching goal of creating a digital library infrastructure for the north. In Canada’s North access to information has been limited by the geographic dispersion of the population, lack of high-speed communications infrastructure, and...
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2012
Introduction: The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta is large and diverse. Liaison librarians at the Health Sciences Library decided in late 2009 to undertake a system-wide evaluation of the information literacy (IL) instruction being delivered to the Faculty. The...
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Disseminating, Assimilating, and Creating: A Social Knowledge Cycle Model for Non-Profit Organizations
Download2014
Vela, Sarah, Forcier, Eric, Rathi, Dinesh, Given, Lisa
This research paper explores how ‘social knowledge’, as an emergent category of organizational knowledge, flows through non-profit organizations (NPOs). Examining findings from qualitative interviews with 16 individual from Canadian NPOs on their use of social media for Knowledge Management (KM),...
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2010
Twidale, Michael B., Rathi, Dinesh
The study uses grounded theory approach to develop different categories of stopwords leading to the creation of a stopword list for email-based data. The finding of the study will contribute in better understanding of email as data and developing better algorithms which could automatically remove...
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2012
Rathi, Dinesh, Shiri, Ali, Lucky, Shannon
This paper reports on the ways in which two national and two public digital libraries from four different countries (Canada, United States, Britain, Australia) have made use of metadata elements and social media features such as social tags and recommendations to support searching, browsing and...