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Developing Data Services Skills in Academic Libraries
(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 ...
An Introductory Indigenous Cultural Competency Training Program in the Academic Environment
(American Library Association, 2022-02)
A description of an Indigenous cultural competency training program developed and delivered at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Creating, Delivering and Evaluating an Informatics Course
(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 ...
Review of Library Next: Seven Action Steps for Reinvention
(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
(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, ...
A Simple and Lightweight Algorithm for Social Robot Speech Turn Taking
(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 ...
Reinventing ourselves: New and emerging roles of academic librarians in Canadian research-intensive universities
(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 ...
Developing Librarian Data Services Skills: An Assessment of Current Levels of Competency and a Plan for the Future
(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 ...
Moving from In Person to Online: Effects on Staffing in a Large Academic Library System
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2020)
The University of Manitoba (U of M) is a research-intensive medical and doctoral-level university and a member of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities, which includes fifteen of Canada’s top research universities. ...
Supporting early undergraduate students: Using video to introduce critical reading skills in scaffolded information literacy instruction
(ACRL, 2023)
Students’ ability to develop transferable skills, such as those that correspond to information literacy (IL) and writing, is an expectation and trend that continues to gain momentum within higher education. To support this ...