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2020-10-30

Popowich, Sam

Canadian political philosophy – particularly the work by Charles Taylor, James Tully, andWill Kymlicka – can be read against the changing landscape of Canadian constitutional and social history. In this paper, I will trace the genealogy of Taylor’s politics of recognition from Rawls’ Theory of...

2020-01-01

Henry, Alison, Stieglitz, Lauren

2018-11-10

Polkinghorne, Sarah

Wearable technology has been a news-friendly trend in the past decade, particularly given the popularity of, and attendant concerns with, digital fitness trackers. One type of wearable technology, the GoPro camera, has become widely known for enabling first-person views of athletic feats such as...

2017-01-01

Polkinghorne, Sarah, Given, Lisa M., Carlson, Lauren

Within library and information studies (LIS), there is growing awareness of the role of the body and its surroundings in people’s information and knowledge experiences. Predominant data collection methods, such as the sit-down interview, should be reexamined in light of this awareness. This paper...

2017-01-01

Polkinghorne, Sarah

Everyone uses information gathered through the senses to understand and navigate daily life. Despite this ubiquity, some types of sensory information have received little attention within library and information studies (LIS). This CAIS paper analyzes one sense as an example, the sense of smell,...

2017-01-01

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...

2017-10-01

Laroque, Sheila, Carr-Wiggin, Anne, Bigelow, Ian, Koufogiannakis, Denise, Farnel, Sharon, Lar-Son, Kayla, Feisst, Debbie

This presentation provides an overview of the work of the University of Alberta Libraries to examine and revise its descriptive metadata practices to more accurately, appropriately, and respectfully represent Indigenous peoples and contexts. The presentation was given at the Netspeed Library...

2016-03-10

Vashishtha, Saurabh , Harrigan, Amanda, Farnel, Sharon, Roark, Kendall

This presentation was an update to library staff on the progress that has been made on the CLIR-funded "Bridging the Research Data Divide." It outlines the initial processes taken to describe maternal, infant, and child health research data and engage researchers.

2016-04-07

Farnel, Sharon, Vashishtha, Saurabh , Novak Gustainis, Emily, LaFountain, Amber, Harrigan, Amanda, Roark, Kendall

This presentation for NADDI 2016 gives an overview of the processing work that has gone into research data description for the two types of collections being described in the "Bridging the Research Data Divide" project: special collections and contemporary research collections.

2015-05-15

Wakaruk, A.

Invited presentation for the Canadian Association of Research Libraries' Leviathan North: Long-term Access to Government Information in the Digital Era.