Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI
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Reimagining LIS Education: Everything We Wanted to Say but Were Afraid To
No full textThis panel includes six library and information science (LIS) academics who bring together international perspectives on pedagogy rooted in theoretical framings. The panelists will discuss topics meaningful to the instructor experience including social justice, teaching empathy in the LIS classroom, faculty/student research collaboration, student socialization to the graduate academy, and inclusion of faculty members with a disability
Use of hashtags by two Canadian public libraries: A comparative review
No full textThis research presents a comparative review of hashtags in tweets posted by the two large Canadian public libraries, Edmonton Public Library (EPL) and Calgary Public Library (CPL), serving communities in the Province of Alberta. The descriptive statistics reveals variation between the two libraries in the number and types of hashtags. Both the libraries used a number of hashtags that had libraries’ names including initialism to contribute to their visibility, and local airport codes or the respective city names to establish their explicit and implicit associations with their geographical area of operations. The paper contributes to literature on the use of hashtags particularly in the context of Canadian public libraries. It will provide evidence-driven insights to other libraries on ways to create hashtags to strengthen their online presence, and digitally share information and promote events, programs and services
Reimagining Library and Information Science Evaluation Frameworks for Relational Knowledge Exchange Work
No full textWe share preliminary findings from an interview study with 24 Library and Information Studies (LIS) professionals engaged in knowledge exchange (KE) work. Specifically, we examine the challenge of evaluating relational work and the disconnect between existing LIS evaluation frameworks and practices with respect to demonstrating social value. We speculate on the contribution of KE discourse and impact models to LIS assessment and evaluation
Epistemic Injustice In Library Work: A Case Study Of Patron-perpetrated Sexual Harassment
No full textWe draw on the concept of epistemic injustice to understand (1) how library workers are harmed in their capacity as knowers when their experiences of patron-perpetrated sexual harassment (PPSH) are not believed; and (2) how a lack of hermeneutical resources—the conceptual knowledge to name and identify PPSH as gender-based violence—makes it difficult for them to make sense of their experiences. Library workers are subject to epistemic injustice when their knowledge/truth claims about PPSH are dismissed, diminished, disbelieved or otherwise discounted by patrons and people in the library organization, often in favour of the perpetrator’s account. Recognizing epistemic injustice within the context of PPSH can help the library workplace move towards justice
Reimagining “Palaces for the People”: A Critical Review of Public Libraries’ Engagement with the Asocial Society
No full textThe “loneliness epidemic,” a public health crisis characterized by reports of higher levels of social isolation and loneliness, has been attributed to features of modern living, including urbanization and the increase of one-person households. Public library workers are contending with individuals navigating this crisis. Findings are presented from a state-of-art literature review focussed on recent English-language, peer-reviewed studies (n=235) of public library programming, services, technology and policies in the context of trends in the contemporary asocial society. Across published research, public libraries fostered connection through the following means: encouraging feelings of belonging, creating connections through technology, reinforcing cultural identities, creating safe physical spaces, addressing issues of accessibility, creating new educational programming, and creating new recreational/social programming. The findings allow for a reimagining of the roles of public libraries but not without a reckoning about workplace culture and workloads of library staff
Measuring Data Re-Use In OpenAlex by Researchers, Institutions, and Countries
No full textOpen Data is a concept that is receiving increased attention and support in academic environments, with one justification being that shared data may be reused in further research. But what evidence exists for such reuse, and what is the relationship between the producers of shared datasets and researchers making use of them? This work in progress makes use of dataset citations in the OpenAlex bibliometric database to analyze the relationship between the creators of datasets and authors who cite them, at individual, institutional, and national levels
The Value of a Diamond: Understanding Global Coverage of Diamond Open Access Journals in Web of Science, Scopus, and OpenAlex to Support an Open Future
No full textDiamond OA journals present a publishing model that is free for both authors and readers, but their lack of indexing in major bibliographic databases such as Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus presents challenges in assessing the usage of these journals. This paper provides a global picture of the coverage of diamond OA journals from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in three data sources. Results show their low coverage in WoS and Scopus and higher coverage in OpenAlex, as well as the generally smaller and local scope of diamond OA journals. Understanding the current landscape of diamond OA indexing can assist LIS professionals with advising researchers on avenues they can pursue to find diamond OA published work or choosing journals to publish in to ensure the visibility and accessibility of their research
Designing the Presentation of Hyperlinks to Reduce Overload in Online Health Information
No full textThis talk will present the results of a completed crowdsourced study with 82 participants. The study was guided by the question: how does the visual saliency of hyperlinks on a health information web page influence perceived information overload, emotional reactions, and task performance? Results indicate that different modes of presenting a high volume of hyperlinks can influence the experience of information overload
Exploring How Casualization Complicates Canadian Academics’ Information Practices
No full textAn increasing number of academics working in higher education in Canada work on short-term contracts. The casualization of university work and the insecure nature of these contracts increases the difficulty that contract academic staff (CAS) experience, including often not receiving the information they need to carry out their work. While research around CAS has identified areas of challenge, there is a lack of research examining the information practices and environments of Canadian CAS. This paper reports on the findings from in-depth, semi-structured interviews carried out with CAS, focusing on their information experiences and how precarious employment and ongoing uncertainty influences their information seeking, sharing, creating, and use
Deliberating Climate Action @ The Library: Supporting Sense Making & Meaning Making in the Midst of Uncertainty and Difference
No full textLibrary systems and associations across Canada are initiating climate-oriented programming, services, and advocacy at an astonishing pace. Yet, much of the work is undertaken without the time and resources needed to investigate the influence of these efforts. What do we hope these climate-oriented initiatives are doing? What implicit theories of social change are driving these activities? This panel will create space to deliberate challenges and envision possibilities for libraries navigating roles and responsibilities in response to the ongoing climate crisis. Panelists will reflect on preliminary findings from an interview study with librarians from across British Columbia, and their own experiences with climate action, and open a discussion on future research