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Against the wind: Challenges and barriers to Canadian academic librarians’ instructional practices
Download2017-01-01
Polkinghorne, Sarah, Julien, Heidi
Helping students learn how to navigate information—and misinformation—is as important as ever. The Canadian information literacy (IL) landscape continues to evolve along with rhetorical, theoretical, and contextual developments, such as the new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher...
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Assessment of the Research Learning Needs of the University of Saskatchewan Librarians: A Case Study
Download2012
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...
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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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2020-03-18
The purpose of the Augustana Library Feedback Project was to gather direct feedback from faculty and students at the Augustana campus about library resources, services and communications. The library wanted to listen and engage in strategic conversations with users to inform future decision...
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2019-02-08
Language and culture are deeply intertwined concepts, and to engage in one is to engage in the other. Multilingual collections are one way to engage both concepts, particularly in integrated multilingual collections that fully serve the diverse communities. This is in accordance with library...
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2021-06-04
Pitcher, Alison, Garstad, Roxy, Stift, Sandy, Betmanis, Michael, Polkinghorne, Sarah
NEOS libraries have been using Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) as part of their collections development strategy for over a decade. DDA has moved well beyond a pilot project to being a mature, stable approach to collecting ebooks. Collections librarians from the University of Alberta and MacEwan...
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Exploring the Research Knowledge Needs of Canadian Academic Librarians
2010-11-17
As academic librarians increasingly embrace the core value and challenge of engaging in research and scholarly work, and as senior library administrators continue to adopt evidence-based decision making, staff research knowledge and skills must be constantly and systematically developed and...