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2020-06-05

Seal, Lauren; Loroff, Nicole; Zhao, Rachel

This presentation discusses Knowledge Resource Service’s (KRS) role in providing rapid COVID-19 research support for Alberta Health Services. We will go through our process of addressing COVID-19 requests: the difficulty of searching for new yet rapidly developing information, performing quality...

2021-06-04

Laforest, Cam, Polkinghorne, Sarah

Learn how the University of Alberta’s Collection Strategies Unit planned and worked through a year of reductions to acquisitions, staff, and services.

2021-06-03

Tippell-Smith, Kathryn, Blanchard, Jeanette

AHS’s Knowledge Resource Service sought to understand the use and value of its 6 geographically dispersed libraries, to inform future strategic planning. Under normal circumstances, gate counts and exit interviews would be used to gather information from library users regarding their satisfaction...

2021-06-03

Ramgoolam, Gisele, Stearns, Brian

The NEOS Decolonizing Description Working Group was established last summer to actualise the work in which the University of Alberta has been engaged for a number of years to develop more respectful subject headings relating to Indigenous peoples and topics. The working group has made significant...

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...

2021-06-03

Pow, Virginia, Feisst, Debbie, Thomas, Greg

How might we use podcasts as an element of an integrated approach to instruction to develop students’ metacognition regarding their understanding and use of citations?

2022-01-01

Palanuk, Nicole, Ramgoolam, Gisele, Stearns, Brian

NEOS Miniconference 2022 Presentation Slides.

2021-06-03

Nunn, Natasha, Henry, Alison, Pow, Virginia, Sherbaniuk, Patti, Stieglitz, Lauren

Library guides are widely used to organize and share information. At the University of Alberta, subject librarians use library guides to create subject area guides, topical guides and course-specific guides. These guides are a common tool, but how helpful are they to our users? How often are they...

2021-06-04

Carr-Wiggin, Anne, Thompson, Lana, Davies, Scott, Coupland, Elaine

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, NEOS libraries suddenly had to work out how to serve their clients in a radically changed world, and during reopening stages, and then the second and third waves, they had to adapt rapidly again. Via the NEOS Access Services Committee, creative ILS configurations...

2021-06-04

Cook-Newbury, Karen, Bultena, Camille

Five years ago, the NorQuest library at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre was comprised of a couple of magazine racks of battered books. Today, The Book Vault, aptly named by our students, is a bright and sunlit space decorated with student art, plants, and cozy chairs. All 3000 books in...