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The Influence of Washington’s Farewell Address on the American Intellectual Property Debate in the Late 19th Century.
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A content analysis of the Congressional Record and U.S. diplomatic correspondences relating to the negotiation of the Paris and Berne Conventions in the late 19th century reveals that American officials advanced business interests in accordance with Washington’s Farewell Address ahead of the...
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The place of health information and socio-emotional support in social questioning and answering.
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Introduction: Little is known about the quality of health information in social contexts or how socio-emotional factors impact users' evaluations of quality. We explored how librarians, nurses and users assessed the quality of health answers posted on Yahoo! Answers, focusing on socio-emotional...
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2012
Social media technologies have the potential to be powerful knowledge sharing and community building tools for both corporate and non-profit interests. This pilot study explores the social media presence of a group of forty-six Alberta-based non-profit organizations (NPOs) in this information...
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2016-09-01
The Mythstory of Bamfield Created by Lucinda Johnston A report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Acoustic Ethnography at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre Instructor: Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, and Jennifer Schine Teaching Assistant: Pietro Sammarco ©Lucinda Johnston, 1...
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2016-09-01
The Mythstory of Bamfield Created by Lucinda Johnston A report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Acoustic Ethnography at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre Instructor: Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, and Jennifer Schine Teaching Assistant: Pietro Sammarco ©Lucinda Johnston, 1...
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2012
Common wisdom often posits that game-playing is the enemy of reading, that it offers one of a plethora of “distractions” that seduce people away from the power of the printed page. In this article it is proposed that we do not to take on this stereotype, with its barely veiled assumption that...
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Tools of Engagement for Knowledge Management: Using Social Media to Capture Non-Profit Organizations' Stories
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Rathi, Dinesh, Forcier, Eric, Given, Lisa
Presents results from qualitative interviews with individuals working in non-profit organizations near Edmonton, Alberta. The findings point to the importance of stories as information sources used within the organizations, with social media playing a key role in capturing those stories and...
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1983-07-01
The present inquiry addresses the problem of an adequate definition of the domain of library and information science. Such a definition must be formulated according to the rigor of logic, for it is patent that mapping out a scholarly domain is more than an act of self-evident discovery. Discourse...
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2018-01-01
Research in the field of Ismāʿīlī Studies has increased exponentially during the last decades. However, all of the existing bibliographies in the field are print-based, which lack the efficient and effective searchability offered by online bibliographic databases. This paper explores some ideas...