• Empower: Association of Architecture School Librarians Conference Report 

  Huot, Ashley (2022-06-29)

  This conference report summarizes the content and conversations of the Association of Architecture School Librarians’ 2022 virtual conference titled Empower. This topic was engaged through thematic groupings of presentations ...

• Unbundling ClinicalKey 

  Lê, Mê-Linh; Rothney, Janet; Winkler, Janice (Canadian Health Libraries Association Annual Conference, 2021-06)

  Introduction: In recent years, the cancellation of so-called journal ‘big deals’ has gained attention and traction within librarianship. In March 2019, University of California’s termination of its $11 million USD/year ...

• Review of Library Next: Seven Action Steps for Reinvention 

  Fuhr, Justin (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2022-03)

  Book review of Catherine Murray-Rust's Library Next: Seven Action Steps for Reinvention.

• Gathering Research: ​ ​ Why all librarians should care about systematic reviews 

  Lê, Mê-Linh; Neilson, Christine; Winkler, Janice (Ontario Library Association (OLA), 2022-02-04)

  Requests for librarian support of systematic reviews, and other knowledge synthesis research, are growing, and increasingly these requests are coming from outside the traditional realm of the health sciences. In this panel, ...

• Creating, Delivering and Evaluating an Informatics Course 

  Lê, Mê-Linh (Medical Library Association, 2021-05-24)

  Background: Due to changes in the scope and nature of care provided by pharmacists, all accredited Canadian Pharmacy programs were required to transition from a 4-year BSc to a 5-year PharmD by 2020. At the University of ...

• Developing Data Services Skills in Academic Libraries 

  Fuhr, Justin (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2022-05)

  Research data services are increasingly offered by academic libraries. As a result, librarians may need to upskill to provide data services and build capacity. This study measures the current level of data services skills ...

• Librarians and Open Pedagogy in the Studio: Scaffolding Information Literacy Skills 

  Huot, Ashley (ArLiSNAP and VREPS 2021 Fall Virtual Conference, 2021-11-13)

  This poster illustrates how the constructivist nature of open pedagogy/OERs are well suited to research-creation methodologies utilized in studios, and how embedded librarians engaging studio-based students in creating and ...

• Literature Search Documentation - Considerations for adaptive design in pediatric clinical trials 

  Neilson, Christine J (2022-05-19)

  The complete search histories for the literature searches conducted for "Considerations for adaptive design in pediatric clinical trials: a systematic review, mixed-methods study, and integrated knowledge translation plan." ...

• Literature Search Documentation: The Right to Risk - An Exploration of the Concept of Risk and Risk Tolerance in Nursing Homes 

  Neilson, Christine (2022-03-28)

  The complete search histories for the literature searches conducted for the Scoping Review "The Right to Risk - An Exploration of the Concept of Risk and Risk Tolerance in Nursing Homes". (Scoping review Principle Investigator: ...

• Reinventing ourselves: New and emerging roles of academic librarians in Canadian research-intensive universities 

  Ducas, Ada; Michaud-Oystryk, Nicole; Speare, Marie (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020-01)

  The academic library profession is being redefined by the shifting research and scholarly landscape, the transformation in higher education, and advances in technology. A survey of librarians working in Canada’s ...

• The Expanding Role of Academic Librarians in Supporting Researcher Profile Management Tools 

  Monnin, Caroline; Fuhr, Justin (Ontario Libraries Association, 2022-02-01)

  In recent years, reliance on research metrics as a measure of the quality and impact of research in post-secondary institutions has highlighted the need for accuracy. Post-secondary faculty and students are expected to ...

• An Introductory Indigenous Cultural Competency Training Program in the Academic Environment 

  Callison, Camille; Ford, Lyle (American Library Association, 2022-02)

  A description of an Indigenous cultural competency training program developed and delivered at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

• Developing Librarian Data Services Skills: An Assessment of Current Levels of Competency and a Plan for the Future 

  Fuhr, Justin (Medical Library Association Annual Conference, 2021-05)

  Introduction: Research data services are increasingly offered by academic libraries. Librarians may need to upskill to provide sufficient services or to build capacity within their institution. This study measures the ...

• Book Review: Foundations of Information Ethics 

  Fuhr, Justin (Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2020)

  This review analyzes John T. F. Burgess and Emily J. M. Knox's Foundations of Information Ethics (2019). Foundations of Information Ethics is an excellent guidebook throughout its 156 pages. Burgess and Knox have gathered ...

• Review of Approaches to Liaison Librarianship: Innovations in Organization and Engagement 

  Fuhr, Justin (Journal of New Librarianship, 2021)

  Review of Canuel, R., & Crichton, C. (Eds). (2021). Approaches to liaison librarianship: Innovations in organization and engagement. Association of College and Research Libraries.

• Internal motions and sulfur hydrogen bonding in methyl 3-mercaptoproprionate 

  Silva, Weslley G. D. P.; Evangelisti, Luca; van Wijngaarden, Jennifer (The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2019-10-21)

  The effect of sulfur hydrogen bonding on the conformational equilibrium of methyl 3 mercaptopropionate was investigated using microwave spectroscopy in a supersonic jet expansion. The two most stable conformers (I and II) ...

• A Simple and Lightweight Algorithm for Social Robot Speech Turn Taking 

  González, Adriana Lorena; Young, James E (2020)

  Simple, but effective, social robot voice-based interaction designs are possible with only rudimentary speech analysis. Robust full analysis, including syllable, word, and meaning extraction, is still an open research ...

• A Pilot Study Examining the Perceptions of Academic Librarians as Researchers According to Academic Librarians 

  Babb, Maureen (Alberta Library Conference, 2014)

  This pilot study explored the perception of academic librarians as researchers and academics according to academic librarians themselves. Previous research acknowledges the tendency of relations between librarians and ...

• Health Professionals’ Awareness of Predatory Journals 

  Babb, Maureen; Dingwall, Orvie (Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA), 2018-06-16)

  Introduction: Predatory journals have become a serious problem in recent years; they threaten to compromise the integrity of medical literature by introducing poor quality material into the academic record. Librarians and ...

• It's a poster about posters: how an in-person literacy poster session went online 

  Romund, Grace; Fuhr, Justin; Speare, Marie; Albrecht, Vickie; Babb, Maureen; Schultz, Ryan (American Libraries Association Conference (ALA ’21), 2021-06-24)

  The University of Manitoba’s science librarians developed a three-credit, second-year course entitled “Information Skills for the Sciences” that was delivered for the first time in the fall of 2020. The culminating project ...

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