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2020-03-31

Ratcliffe, Caitlin

Intellectual freedom is a cornerstone value of library and information studies (LIS) in the twenty-first century. However, LIS institutions have not always held intellectual freedom with the significance it has today. Historic analysis situates the development of intellectual freedom in the...

2012

Rathi, Dinesh, Shiri, Ali, Lucky, Shannon

This paper reports on the ways in which two national and two public digital libraries from four different countries (Canada, United States, Britain, Australia) have made use of metadata elements and social media features such as social tags and recommendations to support searching, browsing and...

2012

Mackey, Margaret

Da salget af e-bøger er fordoblet i løbet af blot seks måneder i USA og Amazon nu sælger flere elektroniske bøger end papirudgaver, er det tid til at gøre status over hvor vi er og hvor vi er på vej hen på bogområdet. Det vrimler med geografiske metaforer i dette ”territorium”, men det er...

2015-01-29

Austin, Mallory, Trosow, Samuel E., McNally, Michael B.

The session examines the issues raised by makerspaces in the context of Canadian intellectual property law. Questions addressed include: what responsibilities to librarians have under trademark law and the Patent Act; what are the copyright implications of makerspace technologies; what role does...

2015-06-04

Evaniew, Jennifer, McNally, Michael B., Rathi, Dinesh, Stobbs, Robyn

This paper provides a thematic analysis of federal and provincial broadband programs and policies in Canada from 1995 to 2015. The analysis reveals that programs are becoming increasingly unambitious with regard to increasing broadband availability and the speeds at which broadband service must...

2017-01-12

McNally, Michael B

This is the second lecture from the Winter 2017 offering of LIS 598 Information Policy. This lecture covers Information Society Theory and Discourse. The lecture is available as a PowerPoint with audio or video (.wmv) file. All of the underlying files including the text of the audio is...

2017-11-11

McNally, Michael B

These are the underlying files (PowerPoint and audio) for Lecture 1 of LIS 598 Information Policy, Winter 2017. These files are provided for alternative access, and to allow adoption and resuse by others.

2017-11-11

McNally, Michael B

These are the underlying files (PowerPoint and audio) for Lecture 1 of LIS 598 Information Policy, Winter 2017. These files are provided for alternative access, and to allow adoption and resuse by others.

2017-11-11

McNally, Michael B

These are the underlying files (PowerPoint and audio) for Lecture 1 of LIS 598 Information Policy, Winter 2017. These files are provided for alternative access, and to allow adoption and resuse by others.

2011-05-14

Vicki Williamson, Alvin M Schrader, Ali Shiri

As academic librarians with faculty status increasingly embrace research engagement as a core value and requirement, one of the little studied questions is the extent to which they possess the requisite knowledge and skills to conduct high quality research and scholarship, and what further...