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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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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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Roving Reference with iPads: a study of the use of iPads as technological support and service assessment [presentation slides]
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Presentation slides for paper presented at World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly 13-18 August 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Conference Session 197:Innovative information services in the digital environment. Hosted by Reference and Information Services...
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The good, the bad, and the ugly: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on emerging adults' body image
Download2023-06-23
Sierra L. P. Tulloch, Devon J. Chazan, Gabrielle N. Pelletier, Lia M. Daniels
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted emerging adults’ lives in various aspects of physical and mental health, in part, because of lack of physical activity and face-to-face socialization paired with increased technology and social media time. Given that all of these aspects may be linked...