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2022-07-01
Brown, Christine, Carpan, Carolyn, Johnston, Lucinda, Lacroix, Denis
A poster developed for the 2022 International Federation of Library Associations' (IFLA) annual conference, held July 26-29 in Dublin, Ireland, to present on the Student Life During COVID community arts outreach initiative, developed in partnership between the University of Alberta Library and...
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2017-04-05
The Deakin Review of Children’s Literature is an open access electronic quarterly review of contemporary materials of interest to children and young adults. The Review focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on Canadian English language children’s books. French language reviews and peer review...
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2017-09-01
Lar-Son, Kayla, Koufogiannakis, Denise, Laroque, Sheila, Feisst, Debbie, Carr-Wiggin, Anne, Farnel, Sharon, Bigelow, Ian
This poster provides an overview of the work of the University of Alberta Libraries to critically examine and revise its descriptive metadata practices to more accurately, appropriately, and respectfully represent Indigenous peoples and contexts. The poster was presented at the Diversity by...
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2016-07-01
Farnel, Sharon, Campbell, Sandy, Stobbs, Robyn, Rathi, Dinesh, Maloney, Elaine, Shiri, Ali, Piltingsrud, Anastasia, Cockney, Cathy
The Digital Library North is being developed jointly by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre and the University of Alberta. The goal is to create a digital library that will meet the needs of the Inuvialuit people. The Inuivialuit people recognize three dialects of the Inuvialuktun language:...
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Automating Metadata Creation: Enhanced Discovery and Description of Maternal Child Health Data
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Roark, Kendall, Farnel, Sharon, Harrigan, Amanda, Vashishtha, Saurabh
This poster for the NADDI 2016 conference shows the processes we implemented to pre-populate parts of our DDI-compatible metadata schema with publicly and locally available information. We have developed in-house scripts to export and import the metadata from resources such as NCBI,...
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2016-11-04
Chatterley, Trish, Koufogiannakis, Denise
Presentation given at the Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition, Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, 2016. Abstract: In April of 2014, the University of Alberta Libraries (UAL) made a major shift in how we acquire monographs, moving from a distributed, subject selector-focused, slip-based...
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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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Using Local and Traditional Knowledge to Define a Digital Library for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region
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Rathi, Dinesh, Piltingsrud, Anastasia, Farnel, Sharon, Maloney, Elaine, Shiri, Ali, Cockney, Cathy, Stobbs, Robyn, Campbell, Sandy
This poster was presented at the University of the Arctic Scientific Congress held in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 16 - 19, 2016. The poster describes the developments in the Digital Library North project, a collaboration between the University of Alberta School of Library and Information...
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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...