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Information Behaviour Of African Immigrants In Sunnyside, Pretoria, South Africa: Towards A Framework For Provision Of Specialised Information Services, Mandu Molaudi

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The information/knowledge driven dispensation is characterised by continual information seeking, acquisition, sharing and use. These continuous information seeking activities are fulfilled through access to information using varieties of digital technologies that characterise the modern world. Information is an important resource for individual growth and survival and it benefits people in addressing different aspects of life. The intended purpose for this study is to explore the information behaviour of African immigrants residing in Sunnyside, Pretoria. This qualitative study focuses on how the immigrants go about seeking information that could support them in addressing various challenges affecting their everyday lives. There is …

Transormative Agreements: Communicating Next Phase Of Library Collections, Julia Gelfand, Mitchell Brown

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Open Access journals and scholarship share a new relationship as content has transitioned from a subscription commodity to rights management. As federal governments encourage and increasingly mandate sponsored research outputs be freely and widely available at the time of publication sustainability of such models led to varied ways of how OA could be made viable. Recent practices suggest successes and trials in changing the footprint of collections. Libraries accustomed to acquiring content for perpetual ownership, and those that created institutional repositories to allow authors when they didn’t retain intellectual property could distribute and repurpose their works are but examples of …

Zayed University Library, Open Access And The Place Of The University Archives In A Dynamic Academic Library Set-Up, Lekoko Kenosi

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Zayed University Library, like most academic libraries the world over, subscribes to the principle of open access to knowledge. Open access works to removes barriers to information, advocates unrestricted use of electronic resources, and strives to facilitate readers with readily available information. This approach plays a critical role in supporting universities’ core mission of teaching, faculty and student research, and community outreach engagements. Similarly, the Archives, like its library counterpart, is home to a rich array of information capable of supporting teaching, research and community outreach initiatives. However, due to the confidential nature of materials in the archives, many archival …

Information Needs Of Children Having A Radiology Technique: Imaging Centers, Rahele Mehrabi, Fatemeh Sheikhshoaei, Vahid Changizi, Nastaran Poursalehi, Faride Pak, Mehrzad Mehdizadeh

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Background: Nowadays, health care systems are seeking to find ways to promote self-care, patient empowerment and informed decision-making. Production of health information content is considered an important tool for improving the health literacy of patients. Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the components of children's health information in radiology centers in order to explore information need of children. Materials and Methods: This qualitative exploratory case study was conducted on 71 people, 25 including 6-14 year-old children, 25 parents of 0-14 year-old children, and 23 staffs(radiology technicians and doctors) of Radiology Department at Children's Medical Center Hospital )Tehran, …

Phd Supervisors Bad Rap Of Open Access Journals, Lindall Adams

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

A decade or more preceded the formal coinage of the term "open access," but the practice of making journal papers freely available online is a relatively new development. Among the first public statements to use the term "open access," the Budapest Open Access Initiative, Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, and Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities were released in February 2002, and their initial concept of open access refers to unrestricted online access to scholarly research, primarily journal articles. Over the past few years, the number of journals available through open access has …

Building Strategic Partnerships To Support Research Impact & Discovery In Canadian Research Libraries, Vivian Lewis

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper will update the international community on how Canadian research libraries are moving from supporting to taking a strong leadership role in key components of the University’s digital research support infrastructure and, in doing so, expanding the campus’ understanding of what good research libraries can and should do. The research will include real-world examples of research libraries leading campus implementations of Research Information Management Systems (RIMs) or Campus Research Information Management Systems (CRISs) to help document the institution’s research output; to partnering or leading the introduction of Bibliometrics services as a strategy for quantifying research impact; and to overseeing …

From Scratch To Launch; Leveraging University Of Miami Libraries’ Research Information Management System To Cultivate University-Wide Partnerships And Support Faculty Research Dissemination And Impact, Kineret Ben Knaan, Elizabeth Gushee, Angela Clark

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Since 2017, the University of Miami Libraries (UML) has engaged with key stakeholders and institutional leaders to adapt and build a centralized, sustainable Research Information Management System (RIMS) helping to curate, manage, and promote institutional research output. This paper details the development and rollout of Esploro by Ex Libris (locally branded Scholarship@Miami), the Institutional Repository (IR), and the RIM system for the University of Miami (UM). The UML Esploro Implementation team leveraged Esploro’s Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning features to train the system to automatically capture and fetch relevant scholarly outputs produced by researchers affiliated with UM. Further, we consider …

The Virtual Reading Room: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Donna Mcrostie, Lisa Mcintosh

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The University of Melbourne and Sydney Libraries in Australia have unparalleled collections of special, rare and archival collections in the national academic library landscape. Both institutions are driven by the same ambition; to maximise engagement and use of these unique collection to further global scholarship.  During the peak of the global pandemic physical access to collections was limited which led to the development of digital solutions to provide a minimum level of access for scholars. On emerging from lockdowns, we engaged in a range of reflective practices about how we may transform and evolve service models in direct response to …

Marketing And Promotion Of Library & Information Services And Products In The Higher Education Institutions In Uae, Durai Murugan Mari Muthu, Zafar Khan

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

There are different marketing strategies available to promote the library resources, services, products, and facilities. Some of the strategy primarily applied in libraries includes community surveys, innovations, publicity and public relations, advertising, communication skills, staff training and innovation, networking and pricing. The study focuses on different types of promotional activities and strategies applied by the surveyed libraries to enhance the utilization of library resources and services. Furthermore, the study tries to understand the attitude of librarians towards strategies of library products and services in the higher education institution of UAE. The study is primarily descriptive in nature with survey type …

The Youtube Social Capital - Library Users Finding A Place And Space On Youtube, Lindall Adams

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The library is a source of social capital. Several studies have examined how library spaces, services, and programs generate social capital. In this manner, the physical library became the third space, following the first and second spaces of home and work. However, during the global lockdown, the third space closed its doors and redirected its attention to social media platforms. While libraries have been engaged in Web 2.0 endeavours since the early 2000s, maintaining social network presence has not been an option. Libraries were given the opportunity to reengage with social media as a result of the pandemic, and new …

Information Technologies Towards Enhanced Service Delivery During The Covid-19 Pandemic, South Africa, Tinyiko Dube, Lorette Jacobs

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The presentation seeks to examine academic librarians’ support of information technology’s application to provide digital library services and resources during the COVID-19 pandemic in academic libraries based in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. In 2020-2021, these academic libraries introduced new library services and digitised most of their resources to enable online access. These academic libraries embraced the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ensure that teaching, learning and research do not halt. Embracing IoT and AI caused academic libraries’ spaces to become irrelevant. This research is anchored in the pragmatism paradigm through a sequential explanatory research …

Leading The Way: University Libraries Advancing Sustainable Development Goals, Modiehi Rammutloa, Lorette Jacobs

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Universities play a critical role in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through their mandate of teaching, education, research, and community engagements. Through their support of the mother body, university libraries provide access to information towards the successful achievement of SDGs. One way of achieving the SDGs is through citizen science. Citizen science is the involvement of community members in scientific research. The success of citizen science projects towards achieving SDGs has been vastly reported in the literature. Data produced from citizen science projects can be used towards achieving SDGs. This is where academic librarians can play a critical role in …

Conceptual Framework Of Information Retrieval System In The Field Of Gastroenterology And Hepatology, Masoud Mohammadi, Fatemeh Sheikhshoaei

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Background and aims: Optimal information retrieval is one of the components of achieving evidence-based medicine. This study aimed to present the Conceptual framework of information retrieval system in the field of Gastroenterology and hepatology. Methods: Based on the previous two studies, the characteristics of the optimal information retrieval system from the perspective of gastroenterologists and hepatologists and the most important approaches and technologies used in the design of information retrieval systems in medical sciences have been used in designing the proposed conceptual framework. Results: The conceptual framework of the information retrieval system in the gastroenterology and hepatology was presented in …

Information, Digital And Media Literacy For Active Global Citizenship, Vicky Grant, Alanna Ross, David Thomas

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

This paper will present work in progress, led by the IATUL Special Interest Group for Information Literacy (SIG IL) to develop an open educational resource to support librarians seeking to liberate information literacy. The resource positions information literacy as an approach to develop students as capable global citizens. Open educational resources provide an opportunity for integration of good practice through a continuous cycle of iterative and reflective updates, making them well suited to this emerging field. Our work is being led using the organisational change technique of appreciative inquiry (Cooperrider, 2008). Appreciative inquiry is a strengths based approach to change …

An Immodest Proposal: Ai, Llms, And The Case For A Standalone Legal Research Requirement, Nicholas Mignanelli, Susan Drisko Zago, Jordan Jefferson, Sarah C. Slinger

Incorporating ChatGPT in the Legal Research & Writing Classroom

The legal research course is over a century old. As a law school subject, it predates many doctrinal courses, as well as the advent of clinical legal education. It is several decades older than its sister subject, legal writing. In spite of its age and obvious importance, the place of the legal research course in the law school curriculum remains contested. While some law faculties recognize the value of legal research instruction and require a standalone legal research course in the first year, the vast majority combine it with legal writing (often over the objections of legal writing instructors and …

Chatgpt In A Contract Drafting Class, Ben Fernandez, Kristen Hardy

Incorporating ChatGPT in the Legal Research & Writing Classroom

Our presentation will discuss the impact of ChatGPT on contract drafting pedagogy. Specifically, we will examine ChatGPT’s basis of knowledge and whether it has sufficient theoretical foundation to be used as a pedagogical tool; whether ChatGPT’s practical application supports proven methods of instructional delivery; and ChatGPT’s functionality as an assessment tool.

1. ChatGPT’s basis of knowledge and whether it has sufficient theoretical foundation to be used as a pedagogical tool

Our presentation will compare the pretraining of ChatGPT and to the typical Contract Drafting pedagogy. We will start by showing the program on a screen and asking it how it …

My Happy Baby Is Back: Zero Balancing, Craniosacral Therapy And A Baby’S Journey To Becoming Mobile, Veronica Quarry

Journal of Transformative Touch

Alison began receiving ZB and CST at 13 months of age due to gross motor delays: at that age she was only able to sit somewhat rigidly. After the first session, Alison changed` from being very unhappy and seemingly frustrated to being happy and more calm. Within one month of weekly sessions, Alison was able to be on her tummy, began to crawl, became more agile in seated play, was squatting and standing and took her first steps.

What Did I Miss? A Demonstration Of The Differences Between Chatgpt-4 And 3.5 That Impact Legal Research And Writing, Laura Killinger, Leslie A. Street

Incorporating ChatGPT in the Legal Research & Writing Classroom

Many news sources are raving about how much more advanced ChatGPT-4 is than 3.5. You may have heard that ChatGPT-4 outscored 90% of test takers on the Uniform Bar Exam, while ChatGPT 3.5 only outscored 10% of test takers. But what does this mean for teaching legal research and writing? In this presentation, we will compare specific examples of ChatGPT 3.5 (the free version many of us tried in the spring) and ChatGPT-4 (the paid version released in March).

“You’Ve Got A Friend In Me”: Helping Students Help Ai, Brad Charles, Mark Cooney

Incorporating ChatGPT in the Legal Research & Writing Classroom

ChatGPT and its family of generative tools may seem new, but the process that ChatGPT imitates is as old as Egyptian papyri: The end-user still had to adapt the form text to each person’s unique situation.

Similarly, modern attorneys may use AI to adapt legal documents to their clients’ needs. But they must also learn how to spot problems in AI-generated documents — omissions, wrongful additions, inaccurate law, legalese, and poor typography. They need to instruct ChatGPT or other generative AI to continue revising until the document reflects best practices.

In short, our students as future attorneys need to know …

The Effect Of Outdoor And Indoor Group Exercise Classes On Psychological Stress In College Students: A Pilot Study With Randomization, Raeann C. Bramwell, Aspen E. Streetman, Gina Besenyi

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 16(5): 1012-1024, 2023. Emerging evidence suggests that outdoor group exercise may reduce stress more than indoor group exercise because the outdoor environment provides unique mental health benefits. Stress leads to illnesses and diseases, but exercise mitigates harmful impacts. This study explored differences in perceived stress and outdoor physical activity participation among college students in an indoor or outdoor group exercise class. Data were collected pre-, mid- (after four sessions), and post-intervention (after eight sessions). Seventeen participants indicated an interest in the study, but 13 signed up. Participants completed a four-week group exercise intervention that met …

Acute Effects Of Different Set Configurations On Neuromuscular, Metabolic, And Perceptual Responses In Young Women, Francisco Dalton-Alves, Lígia Martins, Witalo Kassiano, Mário Simim, Alexandre I. A. Medeiros, Cláudio De O. Assumpção

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 16(4): 974-986, 2023. We compared neuromuscular, metabolic, and perceptual responses between different resistance training configurations in young women. In a counterbalanced randomized order, 13 young women performed the following protocols in separate sessions (sets x repetitions): traditional (TRAD): 5x10, 90-s of rest interval between sets; more frequent and shorter total rest (FSR): 10x5, 30-s of rest interval between sets. The sessions were composed of leg press exercise with the same intensity. Force (maximum voluntary isometric contraction [MVIC]) and metabolic (lactate concentration) responses were measured pre- and post-resistance training sessions. The rating of perceived exertion (RPE) …

Does Beta-Alanine Supplementation Potentiate Muscle Performance Following 6 Weeks Of Blood Flow Restriction Or Traditional Resistance Training?, Kassiana De Araujo Pessoa, Jason Michael Cholewa, Rayssa Sousa-Silva, Xia Zhi, Alessandro M. Zagatto, Antonio Herbert Lancha-Jr, Jakob D. Lauver, Fabricio Eduardo Rossi, Nelo Zanchi

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 16(2): 999-1011, 2023. We aimed to compare the effects of beta-alanine on Traditional Resistance Training (TRAD) or Blood Flow Restriction Training (BFR). Methods: 19 subjects were randomly allocated to a Placebo (n = 10) or beta-alanine (n = 9) group. Subjects from both groups were trained unilaterally (unilateral arm curl) for six weeks, and each arm was trained using a different paradigm (BFR or TRAD). One repetition maximum (1RM) test measurements were performed before and after the strength training program. Work output was accessed as the total weight lifted (repetitions × weight lifted …

A New, Simple And Practical Approach To Increase The Effects Of Aerobic Exercise On Serum Levels Of Neurotrophic Factors In Adult Males, Mahdi Bahramnejad, Vahid Valipour Dehnou, Rasoul Eslami

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 16(2): 932-941, 2023. Environmental enrichment (EE) is defined as a combination of complex inanimate and social stimulation. Physical activity and EE may augment the beneficial effects of each other. This study aimed to assess the effects of running in an enriched environment on neurotrophic factors in adult males. Twelve volunteer adult males (age 26.75 ± 5.34 yrs, body mass 70.72 ± 8.61 kg, height 172.50 ± 5.68 cm, VO_2max 56.8 ± 2.93) completed two sessions, each consisted of one hour of running at an intensity of 12-13 on the Borg Scale. One session was …

Performance Kinetics During Repeated Sprints Is Influenced By Knowledge Of Task Endpoint And Associated Peripheral Fatigue, François Billaut, Marie R. Demers, Andrew Hibbert

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 16(1): 987-998, 2023. The regulation of exercise intensity allows an athlete to perform an exercise in the fastest possible time while avoiding debilitating neuromuscular fatigue development. This phenomenon is less studied during intermittent activities. To investigate anticipatory and real-time regulation of motor output and neuromuscular fatigue during repeated-sprint exercise, twelve males randomly performed one (S1), two (S2), four (S4) and six (S6) sets of five 5-s cycling sprints. Mechanical work and electromyographic activity were assessed during sprints. Potentiated quadriceps twitch force (ΔQ_tw,pot) and central activation ratio (Q_CAR) were quantified from response …

The Effects Of Postural Education Or Corrective Exercise On The Craniovertebral Angle In Young Adults With Forward Head Posture: A Randomized Controlled Trial, David A. Titcomb, Bridget F. Melton, Theresa Miyashita, Helen W. Bland

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 16(1): 954-973, 2023. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of three different intervention strategies, postural education (PE) and two corrective exercise programs (CEPs), on the craniovertebral angle (CVA) in young adults with forward head posture (FHP). A prospective four-arm parallel randomized controlled trial with repeated measures was performed. Seventy-nine healthy young adults (55 women, 24 men; mean age: 20.08 ± 2.19 years) with FHP were randomized into four groups: PE group, self-myofascial release + stretching group (SMRS), self-myofascial release + stretching + strengthening group (SMRSS), and a control group (CG). Participant …

Increasing Trunk Mass Evokes Lower Extremity Biomechanical Plasticity During Stair Descent, Alexis Nelson, Hailey Fong, Alex Carnall, Melissa J. Puppa, Derek Beeler, Cris Stickley, William M. Mihalko, Douglas W. Powell

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 16(1): 942-953, 2023. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of simulated changes in body mass on lower extremity joint work and relative joint contributions during stair descent. Ten healthy recreationally active college-age participants performed five stair descent trials in each of five loading conditions: no added load and with an additional 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% of their body weight. Three-dimensional ankle, knee and hip joint powers were calculated using a six degree-of-freedom model in Visual3D (C-Motion Inc., Germantown, MD, USA). Sagittal plane joint work was calculated as the joint power …

Ftc Non-Compete Ban, Olivia Kuenzi

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

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The ‘100-Mile Border Zone’ And The Surveillance Of Frontline Immigrant Advocates, Brandon Burkey, Isabella Jackson

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

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Commentary: Shoop V. Twyford, Bridget Coyne, Vegas Kastberg

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

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The Most Important Law You’Ve Never Heard Of: Section 1981 And Its Potential Social Justice Issues, Isaac Hampton Verhelst

The Reporter: Social Justice Law Center Magazine

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