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The European Library: Improving Cross-Cultural Web Portals, Sergey Zherebchevsky

Connections 2010

No abstract provided.

Towards A Political Ontology Of Intellectual Goods, Michael B. Mcnally

Connections 2010

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Bibliographic References Collected By A Social Computing Group, C. Sean Burns

Connections 2010

No abstract provided.

Google Blog Search Engine V.S. Technorati Blog Directory: A Study On User Relevance Criteria, Anamika Dasgupta

Connections 2010

No abstract provided.

Tarleton Lee: A Case Study In Book Distribution, Cherié Weible

Connections 2010

No abstract provided.

Slighting Certain Kinds Of Readers: Searching For Comic Book And Graphic Readers In Library And Information Science Literature, Lucia Cederia Serantes

Connections 2010

No abstract provided.

Making Sense Of Evolving Health Information: Women’S Experiences As They Navigate Uncertainty In Everyday Life, Shelagh K. Genuis

Connections 2010

No abstract provided.

Embedded Information Literacy: An Arts & Humanities Model, Marni Harrington, Christy Sich

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

With the installation of a new Arts & Humanities Dean and recognizing the need to address the information literacy skills of undergraduates, the faculty and library teamed-up to integrate course design. We piloted an embedded information literacy program for a 3rd year course in the Department of Classical Studies. The implementation was successful due to collaboration with the faculty, department and course instructor as well as the continual assessment, adaptation and evaluation of the course content. Due to the organic nature of this model, it may be adapted to other programs in Arts & Humanities.

Scholarly Communication And Content Recruitment For Institutional Repository (Presentation For Gradlis 9315), Adrian K. Ho

Western Libraries Presentations

No abstract provided.

Throw Out Those Paper Bookplates! The Digital Bookplate Program At The University Of Western Ontario, Cheryl Martin, Lisa Rae Philpott

Western Libraries Presentations

Western Libraries (The University of Western Ontario) has recently developed a digital bookplate program. We create a digital bookplate in Fireworks (a graphics design program) using a set of standard templates. Then we link a web page with information about the bookplate to a search, which displays all of the material purchased for that donation in the catalogue. The donor is provided with the web-link and can view the bookplate and the catalogue records for the material that was purchased or donated.

Pulling It All Together: Developing An Assessment Toolkit, Kathy Ball, Margaret Martin Gardiner

Western Libraries Presentations

This presentation discusses topics such as good assessment practices, assessment tools, data analysis and presentation, and assessment promotion.

Informed Instruction: Graduate Students' Information Seeking Behaviour, Kim Mcphee, Marg Sloan

Western Libraries Presentations

This is a research project with these objectives:

• To determine Graduate Students’ information seeking behaviours

• To determine the role people have in Graduate Students’ information seeking, and

• To identify Graduate Student knowledge/opinion of key information resources/services

Teaming Up: Benefits Of Collaborating With Library Colleagues, Kim Cornell, Lise Doucette, Dan Sich

Western Libraries Presentations

When looking to increase communication and collaboration in our library, we created a team of physical sciences/engineering librarians, library assistants, and administrators. Together, we work on setting priorities, sharing expertise, and developing skills. In three years, we have moved from traditional subject-based instruction responsibilities to working as a team to prepare and co-instruct classes. By sharing with you the benefits of our team-based system to our librarians, library system, and users, we want to inspire you to think about how to implement a similar system in your own library.

Public Libraries In The Lives Of Young Readers: Past, Present And Future, Paulette Rothbauer, Virginia Walter, Kathleen Weibel

Data and Test Instruments

Youth services in public libraries have always been characterized by good intentions and commitment to patrons' personal choice: to select, to question, and to know. The public library has changed and grown since its Progressive Era beginnings, and the leadership for much of this change has come from youth services librarians through their work on behalf of young library users, whether this involves summer programming or digital media development. This chapter's three scholars bring a wealth of public library experience to this endeavour, as they describe the past, present, and future of public library service to young people in the …

Embedded Information Literacy: An Arts And Humanities Model, Marni R. Harrington, Christy Sich, Fran Gray

Western Libraries Presentations

This material was presented at Spring Perspectives 2010. The presentation highlights the collaboration between the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and The D.B. Weldon Library to embed information literacy skills directly into a Classical Studies course.

Library School Curricula In The Us Should Address Liaison Responsibilities For Students Interested In Academic Librarianship, Nazi Torabi

Western Libraries Publications

No abstract provided.

Are Bibliographic Management Software Search Interfaces Reliable?: A Comparison Between Search Results Obtained Using Database Interfaces And The Endnote Online Search Function, Megan Fitzgibbons, Deborah Meert

Western Libraries Publications

The use of bibliographic management software and its internal search interfaces is now pervasive among researchers. This study compares the results between searches conducted in academic databases' search interfaces versus the EndNote search interface. The results show mixed search reliability, depending on the database and type of search performed.

Inquiring Into The Real: A Realist Phenomenological Approach, John M. Budd, Heather Hill, Brooke Shannon

FIMS Publications

The need for postpositivist or antipositivist methods in the social sciences, including library and information science, is well documented. A promising alternative synthesizes critical realism and phenomenology. This method embraces ontological reality in all things, including human and social action. The ontology underlying the realist phenomenological approach recognizes, following Bhaskar, intransitive and transitive objects of knowledge (mind‐independent reality and individual and social perceptions of that reality). The synthesis encompasses some particular elements, including perceptions of parts and wholes, the reconciliation of presence and absence, and the essential character of intentionality. Withholding judgment (exercising a particular kind of skepticism) enables inquirers …

Procrustean Motherhood: The Good Mother During Depression (1930s), War (1940s), And Prosperity (1950s), Romayne Smith Fullerton, M J. Patterson

FIMS Publications

Women have long considered home making, parenting, and fashion magazines, addressed directly to them, to be a trusted source for advice and for models of behavior. This trust is problematic given that sample magazine articles from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s show cultural portrayals of motherhood that appear more proscriptive than descriptive. They changed little, although real women’s roles in both the domestic and public realms were undergoing significant shifts. During these decades of Great Depression, World War II, and unprecedented post-war prosperity, women went to school and entered the workplace in growing numbers, changed their reproductive choices, and shifted …

Informing Traces: The Social Practices Of Collaborative Informing In The Midwifery Clinic, Pamela J. Mckenzie

FIMS Publications

The concept of “traces” is useful for understanding the collaborative practices of informing. Readers of documents leave traces of their use, and institutional talk embeds traces of collaborative work, including work done and elsewhere and at other times. This chapter employs a multifaceted qualitative strategy of analytic bracketing to analyze traces in midwives’ and clients’ discussions of clinical results. Results are used to identify and evaluate trends in relation to the current case or to universal norms. Conflicting forms of evidence may need to be negotiated. Barriers may arise when results or sources are inadequate or unavailable. Midwives and women …

Primitive Accumulation, The Social Common, And The Contractual Lockdown Of Recording Artists At The Threshold Of Digitalization, Matt Stahl

FIMS Publications

This article examines the apparent paradox of the persistence of long-term employment contracts for cultural industry ‘talent’ in the context of broader trends toward short-term, flexible employment. While aspirants are numberless, bankable talent is in short supply. Long-term talent contracts appear to embody a durable, perhaps inherent, axiom in employment: labour shortage favours employees. The article approaches this axiom through the lens of recent reconsiderations of the concept of ‘primitive accumulation’. In the case of employment, this concept highlights employers’ impetus to transcend legal and customary barriers to and limits on their capacity to capture and compel labour. The article …

Putting The Pieces Together: Endometriosis Blogs, Cognitive Authority, And Collaborative Information Behaviour, Diane M. Neal, Pamela J. Mckenzie

FIMS Presentations

Abstract: Endometriosis causes female pelvic pain and infertility. This study examines blogs written by endometriosis patients in the context of collaborative information sharing. Preliminary discourse analysis supported previous studies that found patients questioning medical professionals’ cognitive authority. Additionally, the blogger’s affective authority may play a role in readers’ information judgements. Résumé : L'endométriose cause chez les femmes des douleurs au pelvis et l'infertilité. Cette étude examine les blogues rédigés par les patientes souffrant d'endométriose dans un contexte d'échange d'information collaborative. L'analyse préliminaire du discours corrobore des études antérieures qui ont démontré que les patientes remettent en question l'autorité cognitive des …

Methodological Strategies For Studying Documentary Planning Work., Pamela J. Mckenzie, Elizabeth Davies, Lola Wong

FIMS Presentations

This paper reports on the pilot testing of data collection strategies for a study of the complex and idiosyncratic document work involved in everyday life planning and time management. We describe two iterations of two data collection strategies, in-depth semi-structured interviews and photography of individual documents and document collections.

Cette communication prente un projet pilote de straties de collecte de donns pour l'ude du travail documentaire complexe et idiosyncratique nessaire la planification et la gestion du temps au quotidien. Seront prents deux itations de deux straties de collecte de donns : les entrevues en profondeur semi-structurs et la photographie de …

A New Model For Semantic Photograph Description Combining Basic Levels And User-Assigned Descriptors, Hyuk-Jin Lee, Diane M. Neal

FIMS Publications

Few studies have been conducted to identify users’ desired semantic levels of image access when describing, searching, and retrieving photographs online. The basic level, or the level of abstraction most commonly used to describe an item, is a cognitive theory currently under consideration in image retrieval research. This study investigates potential basic levels of description for online photographs by testing the Hierarchy for Online Photograph Representation (HOPR) model, which is based on a need for a model that addresses users’ basic levels of photograph description and retrieval. We developed the HOPR model using the following three elements as guides: the …

Persistence And Change In Social Media, Bernie Hogan, Anabel Quan-Haase

FIMS Publications

In ―Star Trek‖, Scotty suggests that Transwarp beaming is ―like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet, whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse‖ (Abrams, 2009). The study of social media faces similar challenges because new tools are developed at a rapid pace and existing tools are constantly being updated with new features, policies, and applications. Users tend to migrate, in often unpredictable ways, to new tools as well as to adopt multiple tools simultaneously, without showing consistent media preferences and habits (Quan-Haase, 2008). As a result, for scholars it sometimes feels as if the social media landscape …

Beyond A Signpost For Resistance: The Promise Of Michel De Certeau's Practices Of Everyday Life For Lis Scholarship, Paulette Rothbauer

Data and Test Instruments

No abstract provided.

The Copyright Debate: Finding The Right Balance For Teaching, Research, And Cultural Expression, Samuel E. Trosow

FIMS Presentations

No abstract provided.

Integrating Research Into Lis Field Experiences In Academic Libraries, Selinda Adelle Berg, Kristin Hoffmann, Diane Dawson

Western Libraries Publications

Field experiences function as a link between LIS theory and practice. Students should be provided with an experience that is a true reflection of the professional environment. The increasing focus on research by academic librarians provides an opportunity and responsibility to integrate research into the field experiences of LIS students.

Open Access Week (Retention Of Author Rights), Mark Perry

Law Presentations

No abstract provided.

Open Access And Its Social Benefits, Ajit Pyati

FIMS Presentations

No abstract provided.