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2017-02-03
Engaging reluctant readers is a common topic among library professionals as the literary lives of young people appear to be changing or declining. Although much research has already been conducted about the nature of reluctant readers, there is little on how to combat it and even less on...
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2022-09-20
Reyes Ayala, Brenda, Du, Qiufeng, Han, Juyi
Presented at the Linked Archives 2022: International Workshop on Archives and Linked Data at the 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL2022), Padua, Italy.
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2019-02-08
Frechette, Jessica, Ratcliffe, Caitlin, Schamuhn Kirk, Deborah
Last summer, we chose to complete an LIS study abroad program offered by the University of Southern Mississippi and based on-site in the United Kingdom. This cross-cultural experience broadened our perspective of library services and challenged us to develop new ways of thinking as we immersed...
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Anna Wilson Disability in the Academy and Academic Library Profession
2016-10-19
Anna Wilson, University of Alberta The United Nations guiding principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities includes non- discrimination, full participation, and inclusion in society. Unfortunately, many scholars with disabilities are not represented in the academic and...
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2019-02-08
Edmonton is home to both an ALA accredited MLIS program and a major employer, the Government of Alberta (GoA). Yet the GoA has had difficulty recruiting information professionals into information management (IM) positions, and concurrently, the number of MLIS graduates attaining government...
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2018-02-02
Introduction: Transgender people are not being represented in public school sex education and are not able to rely on healthcare professionals being able to provide good and effective care. This study examined how transgender people are finding information relating to their sexual health and...
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Choices and Consequences in Transitioning from Closed to Open Resources and Courses
2016-12-07
Christiansen, Erik G., McNally, Michael B.
This presentation examines the continuum from closed to open for both open educational resources in general and open courses. The presentation evaluates what instructional choices are needed to increase openness. In this regard the presentation will identify not only how to move resources and...
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2020-02-07
Adopted in the late 1930s, the Library Bill of Rights grounded the profession in the core value of intellectual freedom. This core value was challenged in the 1930s, the 1960s, the 1990s, and again in recent years by calls for social responsibility within our ranks. The re-occurrent discomfort...
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2006
Twidale, Michael B., Rathi, Dinesh, Jones, M. Cameron
We explore the application of a wiki-based technology and style of interaction to enabling the incremental translation of a collaborative application into a number of different languages, including variant English language interfaces better suited to the needs of particular user communities. The...
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2020-02-07
Allison Easton, Katherine Wells
In this presentation, we discuss some of the information needs that refugees experience in refugee camps, based on a literature review. We aim to identify both the ways that refugees are meeting these information needs, as well as services that might partner with refugees in order to improve...