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Library Space and Signage Kindness Audits: What Does Your User See?
(Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2016)
This paper presents an overview of how the University of Manitoba Libraries adapted the concept of a "kindness audit" to identify and document space, usability, and signage concerns and successes across all 20 system ...
Research Data Services Vision(s): an Analysis of North American Research Libraries.
(International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology, 2015-06)
Many libraries are implementing or getting ready to implement research data services (RDS) (see, for example, http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/6297). Oftentimes, these initiatives are reactive, responding to ...
Book Review: Foundations of Information Ethics
(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 ...
Literature Search Documentation - Considerations for adaptive design in pediatric clinical trials
(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." ...
Referencing a book or journal the APA way
(2006-03-09)
After completing this interactive tutorial the user will be able to complete a proper American Psychological Association (APA) reference for a book or journal article.
This flash tutorial requires a screen resolution ...
Sorption of pesticides by microplastics, charcoal, ash, and river sediments
(Springer, 2022-04-27)
In addition to sediments, pesticides can be sorbed to other constituents present in rivers including ash, charcoal, and microplastics. Pesticide sorption by microplastics has been studied for hydrophobic compounds such as ...
Using the Pesticide Toxicity Index to show the potential ecosystem benefits of on-farm biobeds
(Wiley, 2022-07-15)
The influent and effluent of two single-cell biobeds (Province of Alberta, Canada) and two dual cell-biobeds (Province of Saskatchewan, Canada) were monitored during a number of growing seasons. A total of 59 unique pesticide ...
Who Thinks What About Research? Academic Librarian Research According to Librarians, Faculty, and Collective Agreements
(2018-05-31)
Research is an important component of academic librarianship. Often required for promotion and tenure, research is integral to the practice of evidence-based librarianship. This session will review a study of the perceptions ...
Academic law libraries and self-represented litigants
(2010)
Self-represented litigants are growing in numbers and they are a concern in every sector of the legal community. These citizens use public institutions to do their legal research. In this article, I focus on academic ...
Librarians and Open Pedagogy in the Studio: Scaffolding Information Literacy Skills
(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 ...