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Explorer les recherches des bibliothécaires et archivistes universitaires canadiens en dehors de la bibliothéconomie et des études archivistiques
No full textMany academic librarians and archivists (L/As) in Canada have research responsibilities as part of their jobs. For some, those responsibilities include research and scholarship in any disciplinary area, including creative works. This study explored the practices and perspectives of academic L/As in Canada with respect to research in areas outside of librarianship or archival studies (LIAS). An invitation to complete an online questionnaire was sent to over 1,800 email addresses and two listservs. The questionnaire asked about the non-LIAS topics that academic L/As have researched, their perceptions about the importance of research outside of LIAS, and barriers or restrictions they may encounter in doing this research. From the 345 usable responses, 85% of respondents have conducted research on LIAS topics, 32% have done non-LIAS research as part of their job, 29% have done non-LIAS research but not as part of their job, and 38% have not done research outside LIAS. Personal interest was the primary reason for doing non-LIAS research. Nearly half of respondents said that doing non-LIAS research and producing or performing creative works were extremely or very important. At the same time, respondents’ comments revealed a range of perspectives about non-LIAS research, including the sense that it is reasonable to have a connection between research and professional work. More attention is needed to develop a shared understanding about the place and value of non-LIAS research.
Data from the study are available in Borealis: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/SAKC2C.De nombreux bibliothécaires et archivistes universitaires (B/A) au Canada ont des responsabilités en matière de recherche dans le cadre de leur emploi. Pour certains, ces responsabilités comprennent de la recherche et de l’érudition dans n’importe quel domaine disciplinaire, y compris des œuvres créatives. Cette étude porte sur les pratiques et les perspectives des B/A au Canada en ce qui concerne la recherche dans les domaines autres que les études en bibliothéconomie et en archivistique (ÉBA). Une invitation a été envoyée à plus de 1,800 adresses courriel et à deux listes de distribution. Le questionnaire portait sur les sujets non-ÉBA étudiés par les B/A universitaires, leur perception de l’importance de la recherche en dehors des ÉBA et des obstacles et restrictions qu’ils peuvent rencontrer en faisant ce genre de recherche. Des 345 questionnaires utilisés, 85% des répondants ont mené de la recherche sur des sujets en dehors des ÉBA, 32% ont mené des études non-ÉBA dans le cadre de leur emploi, 29% en ont faites mais pas dans le cadre de leur emploi et 38% n’ont pas effectué des recherches sur des sujets non-ÉBA. Un intérêt personnel constituait la raison principale pour faire de la recherche non-ÉBA. Près de la moitié des répondants affirment qu’il est extrêmement ou très important de produire ou réaliser des œuvres créatives. En même temps, les commentaires des répondants révèlent une variété de perspectives au sujet de la recherche non-ÉBA, y compris le sentiment qu’il est raisonnable d’établir un lien entre la recherche et le travail professionnel. Il convient d’accorder davantage d’attention au développement d’une compréhension commune de la place et de la valeur de la recherche non-ÉBA.
Les données de cette étude sont disponibles dans Borealis: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/SAKC2C.
Aborder le racisme anti-noir dans le curriculum en bibliothéconomie et sciences de l\u27information: Un modèle d\u27apprentissage centré sur le Canada
No full textCanadian communities are facing a crisis of inequity, and library service providers must do more to respond to the causal conditions of anti-Black and other forms of systemic racism (Black & Mehra, 2023). Beginning in 2022, the first known Canadian MLIS course, Anti-Racism in Library and Information Science, was piloted at Western University. It aimed to allow students to engage with transformative and collaborative anti-racism frameworks relevant to the Canadian library sector and MLIS curriculum. The one-semester (13-week) course was offered once each summer in 2022 and 2023. The multi-faceted course aimed to equip students with community-based approaches to learning in partnership with local Black communities. As exemplars, the course approach and learnings also allow LIS scholars and practitioners to explore and evaluate their understanding of community-based and anti-racist frameworks. This paper provides evidence-based research and Black-centred resources that can begin to address anti-Black and other forms of systemic racism impacting Canadian library communities. The Canadian-centric and LIS-tailored approach can further benefit both library and community organizations by supporting anti-racism efforts to uncover covert practices of anti-Black racism in personal and professional practices and worldviews.Les communautés canadiennes font face à une crise d\u27iniquité et les fournisseurs de services de bibliothèques doivent en faire davantage pour répondre aux conditions causales du racisme anti-noir et à d’autres formes de racisme systémique (Black et Mehra, 2023). En 2022, le premier cours connu au Canada en bibliothéconomie, « Anti-Racism in Library and Information Science », a été piloté à l’Université Western. Il visait à permettre aux étudiants de s’engager avec des cadres conceptuels antiracistes transformatifs et collaboratifs pertinents pour le secteur des bibliothèques canadiennes et le curriculum en bibliothéconomie. Le cours d’un semestre (13 semaines) a été offert à l’été 2022 et 2023. Le cours à multiples facettes visait à offrir aux étudiants un apprentissage au sein de la communauté grâce à un partenariat avec les communautés noires locales. En tant qu\u27exemples, l’approche du cours et les apprentissages permettent également aux chercheurs et aux praticiens en sciences de l’information d’explorer et d’évaluer leur compréhension des cadres communautaires et antiracistes. Cet article fournit une recherche basée sur des preuves ainsi que des ressources centrées sur les Noirs qui peuvent à contrer le racisme anti-Noir et d’autres formes de racisme systémique qui ont un impact sur les bibliothèques canadiennes. L’approche centrée sur le Canada et adaptée à la bibliothéconomie peut être bénéfique aux bibliothèques et aux organismes communautaires en soutenant les efforts de lutte contre le racisme visant à mettre au jour les pratiques cachées de racisme anti-noir dans les pratiques personnelles et professionnelles et dans les visions du monde
Farmers’ Welfare Depiction in the pro-GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) Literature on African Farmers’ Experiences with GMO
No full textThis paper focuses on proponents of genetically modified (GM) crops for Africa who argue that there are social benefits experienced by adopters of the technology. The paper presents the proponents’ sources of evidence, research methods, contextual background, and their research networks. The paper serves the purpose to grasp how arguments on the social welfare experienced by GM adopters are portrayed by GM proponents; it also serves the purpose to critique and respond to grand claims made about the technology in relation to addressing farmers’ social needs. This is accomplished using to main methods: meta-analysis, and citation network analysis. Meta-analysis is used to grasp the main tenets of GM proponents ‘arguments on GM benefits: presentation of major claims on social and health benefits of GM technology, deployed research methods, temporal and geographic context of data, and authors’ disciplinary and institutional backgrounds. Citation networks analysis is used to identify major scholarly works which advance such claims and how much they influence the policy arena, namely policy institutions which advance claims promoting GM social benefits
Why Rural Canada needs Post Office Banking
No full textBank branches are closing and pulling out of rural Canada, forcing rural residents to travel to access basic postal services. A campaign has been underway for several years to bring back the postal bank in Canada to increase financial inclusion and shore up revenue for Canada Post. A motion to that effect is underway in the House of Commons (M-166). However, although they are the hearts and often the sole means of connection for rural communities, hundreds of rural post offices have been closed over the past two decades, shutting off the potential to revitalize rural communities by offering better jobs and services through innovative use of the vast Canada Post retail network. The presentation will examine the state of affairs for post offices and bank branches in rural Canada; look at some of the innovative ways in which rural post offices have been expanding their services in other countries; and suggest ways for rural residents to support the postal banking campaign
Putting Rural on the Agenda in Scotland
No full textThis diverse panel will explore how different jurisdictions bring attention to rural within their policy making processes. With renewed interest in reviving rural lenses at the Federal level in Canada, this is a very timely discussion. This session will be hosted by the Rural Governance Network of the Rural Policy Learning Commons. Topics to be discussed include multi-level collaborative governance in rural Canada; putting rural on the agenda in Scotland; the politics of rural in Prince Edward Island; and understanding the role of food in rural development in Italy. A robust discussion will follow the presentations
Bridging Town and Country for Thriving Food Systems
No full textThe Central Kootenay Food Policy Council brings together people from across the Central Kootenay, inside and outside of local government, in community organizations and in industry, from municipalities and rural spaces. We take a solutions-based approach to the food systems, with particular attention to policies that can better support regional food economies. By working together, using technology to connect us when we cannot in person, we are improving relationships between communities, sectors and organizations so that we can better identify and implement joint initiatives to our mutual benefit. We work on fostering vibrant agricultural economies, viable food businesses, and locally-focused food distribution systems so that all residents of the region will be well nourished. We work with other organizations on their food-related initiatives where we can be of help, and we take the lead when it makes sense. It can be hard to unite the diverse needs and demands of rural and urban areas, particularly when you include an entire Regional District. The Central Kootenay Food Policy Council represents a working model of doing just that, with a focus on enhancing food security and economies across the Regional District. The goal is to ensure that human and financial resources invested in food systems have the greatest impact by working collaboratively, effectively and efficiently. Our session will tell the story of the Council and what factors we believe are contributing to our efficacy
Tourism, Place and Identity: Rural Tourism in Iceland and Prince Edward Island-Results of a Dialogue
No full textIn recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of tourists visiting Iceland, so much so that tourism density there now rivals that of Prince Edward Island. The nature of the tourism industry is broadly similar in both islands – generally seasonal, with a heavy stress on cultural and environmental resources. Both islands have made a concerted effort to utilize tourism as a community-development tool for the more rural areas, which has met with mixed success – and has raised a whole new set of issues, including oversaturation. In May 2017, a public symposium, hosted by the Institute of Island Studies at University of Prince Edward Island, in concert with the Rural Policy Learning Commons and Meetings and Conventions PEI, brought together experts on rural tourism from both islands to share stories and best practices and policies in dealing with tourism that in some ways – at least anecdotally – has reached and even surpassed its saturation point. Based on a dialogue generated by the Symposium, this paper provides a synthesis of the creative ways rural communities and policy makers on Iceland and Prince Edward Island have met the challenge on these two islands. It then offers an analysis (grounded in McElroy and Albuquerque’s 1998 article, “Tourism Penetration Index in Small Caribbean Islands,” Annals of Tourism Research 25(1), pp. 125-68) of how well those strategies may be working
Public Benefit from Public Resources?: Understanding the Changing Conditions for Rural Resource Regions
No full textThe purpose of this presentation is to understand how institutional processes at the national or sub-national level contribute to making rural resource regions attractive places for capital and labour through the redistribution of royalties/revenues from resource industries. The presentation will outline how different political and economic contexts shape how resource royalties/revenues are collected and distributed back into the region from which the resources have been extracted, and how effectively resource royalties strengthen the regional economy. Drawing from a theoretical foundation of staples theory, evolutionary economic geography and new regionalism, this presentation will examine the relationship between the state and resource regions. In particular the presentation will seek to engage the CRRF audience with a more detailed understanding of: (i) the political economy of the redistributive policy mechanisms used to support economic development in rural resource peripheries, (ii) how and why these resource royalty regimes have evolved (and changed) over time, and (iii) how royalty funds are collected and used at the regional and local level to support community and regional economic development
Agritourism as Rural Development and Farm Diversification: A Southwest Ontario Case Study
No full textThe character of many Canadian rural regions is changing rapidly as, on one hand, many farms become larger, more specialized and more embedded in a global food system while at the same time (ex)urban actors increasingly influence rural economies with new expectations of rural spaces. The latter are creating new possibilities for those family farms who are seeking a different path than corporatization and intensification. Agritourism is one strategy used by small to medium sized farms to capitalize on these new possibilities while simultaneously remain within the agricultural sector. Considering this context, this research aims to understand and document the role of agritourism as a form of farm diversification and rural development in Essex County, Ontario. This was accomplished through a discourse analysis of the County’s 2016 agritourism-related marketing materials and semi-structured interviews conducted with agritourism farm owners, winery owners, and representatives of the destination marketing organization (DMO). The results highlight the many facets of collaborative tourism development between wineries, agritourism farms, and tourism organizations. Differentiated marketing exists between food, agriculture, and wine, which may reflect the active collaboration between winery owners and the DMO to co-create a wine destination and the tendency of many agritourism farms to work in silos and cultivate a personal niche without regard for regional branding or destination creation. However, noted convergences and divergences between marketing strategies and farmers’ perceptions of the role and services of agritourism indicate potential missed connections and opportunities for the developing tourism destination to leverage its local resources more fully
Structural Barriers to The Expansion of Organic Agriculture in Canada
No full textThe organic farming movement has been expanding for more than 50 years in North America. Systems of organic certification have a much shorter history. Organic regulation and certification in Canada was introduced federally in 2005 and became operational in 2009. To trade agricultural products under an organic label in Canada requires third party organic certification if the product crosses a provincial boundary. Organic certification is provided by a number of certification organizations. But organic certification has not been embraced by all members of the organic movement and there has been a proliferation of labels for agricultural products claiming some degree of environmental sensitivity including: natural, pesticide free, free range, pastured, grass-fed, and local. While the demand for these products has been growing only certified organic products are regulated by law. This paper examines the diffusion of organic certification in Canada. It identifies the rate of diffusion and examines the different factors – policy and regulations, competition, pressure from consumer and environmental groups, business and farming associations that are influencing the decision to undertake and maintain organic certification in the face of the increasing competition from non-regulated alternatives. This paper is part of a research project funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council under its Partnership Development Grant. An early version of the paper was presented in the panel entitled "Diffusion of environmental innovations among micro small and medium enterprises: learning across disciplines and across cultures"