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2018-02-01

Gerlitz, Laura M

Image processing and analysis has been used in the sciences since before the advent of the personal computer, beginning as early as the 1920s (Gonzalez & Woods, 2002, p. 3-4). The need to improve image quality spurred the beginnings of scientific image processing, in which images are prepared...

2017-02-03

Ball, Tanya

This research presents the findings regarding digital trends within libraries, using Pokémon Go as a case study. It aims to add understanding as to why digital trends and keeping up with them are vital to all library systems and also to provide insight into how libraries can adopt future digital...

2017-02-03

Laycraft, Candice

When parents divorce, their children often experience personal upheaval and distress. Processing this event and the feelings it evokes can be facilitated through bibliotherapy, which uses children’s picture books containing themes of parental divorce and separation for healing therapies....

2017-02-03

Nguyen, Tanya

This poster presentation compares how the University of Alberta Libraries and Service Alberta creates and manages its Content Management Solutions (CMSs). The CMSs for both organizations are contained in knowledge repositories that are updated manually by authorized individuals. As the body of...

2017-02-03

Whistance-Smith, Greg

How can the architecture of the public library serve and reflect the ethos of the institution? What does the built library communicate to its users, and how does that communication work? And how can its spaces adjust to—and thrive in—a digitally augmented 21st century? Reframing Library...

2017-02-03

Snihurowych Lynch, Sarah V. W.

Although religious groups make up a significant percentage of the Canadian population, there is a gap in research about whether or not Canadian libraries carry sufficient materials to meet the needs of their religious users. To address this gap, this study examined the number of Christian,...

2020-02-07

Kathleen Oliver

Wikipedia has integrated into our information seeking needs and is a successful application of collaborative information production; however, with this combination, Wikipedia articles become susceptible to one-sided control with potentially negative impacts on our information gathering. Without a...

2020-02-07

Kathleen Oliver

Even as we understand the labour, health, and environmental hazards of the technology industry, it increasingly roots itself in our daily lives and modes of being. The library space and services has likewise shifted to meet these changing needs, while still holding core values in sustainability...

2020-02-07

Emily Villanueva

As the advancement of the Internet has led to rapid growth in online communities, diet forums have been no exception. However, there has been minimal comparative and discursive research conducted on the relationship between user identity and information behaviours between forums. The objective of...

2020-02-07

Ashley Edwards

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...