Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI
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Mapping Canada’s Indigenous Digital Collections
No full textThe objective of this paper is to report on a comprehensive study to examine, identify, and map Canada’s Indigenous digital collections available on the web in order to provide a metadata-rich, map-based interface that supports unified, organized, and systematic access to the Indigenous digital collections
Institutional and Community Collaboration to Support New Approaches to Digital Archiving: A case study of the University of Saskatchewan Library and PAVED Arts artist-run centre
No full textCollaborations between traditional knowledge institutions and communities can have a significant impact on both partners when we look to the strengths each bring to a project rather than asking community partners to fit into established ways of working. This paper discusses my partnership as a researcher at the University of Saskatchewan Library and PAVED Arts artist-run centre leadership and how this project challenges the authority and utility of library standards. We propose a collaborative model that matches the infrastructure and technical expertise of the library with the contextual and historical knowledge PAVED has of their unique and locally important collection
The Boundaries of Librarians’ and Pharmacists’ Expertise: Defining What it is to be Professional
No full textThis paper explores findings from two separate studies to begin a conversation about how the concept of expertise, or boundaries defining professional knowledge and action, can be challenged or extended to better understand professionals’ roles, identities, and contribute most effectively to society. The first study examined the identity construction of librarians and the second study examined how pharmacists’ made sense of their prescribing roles. Expertise was central to both professions’ understanding of themselves and their professional roles
Topic-centered Scientific Collaborations of Scholarly Journals in Information Science: A Pilot Study of Implementation
No full textThis proposal is the extended work in implementation of a framework of topic-centered collaboration network. A goal of this study is to investigate the question of: In which topics and in what extent researchers collaborate with others? Topic-centered collaboration networks for two scholarly journals in the field of information science are constructed using bibliographic datasets for the past five years. This proposal contributes to the areas of both collaboration social network and big metadata
A Model of Community-Engaged Scholarship Across “Institutional Borders” to Assess the Role of Rural Libraries in Community Engagement in the Southern and Central Appalachia
No full textThe paper explores a model of community-engaged scholarship developed in a planning grant entitled “Assessment of Rural Library Professionals’ Role in Community Engagement in the Southern and Central Appalachian Region: Mobilization from Change Agents to Community Anchors (CA2CA@SCA-RL)” awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to the University of Tennessee, recently sub-contracted to the University of Alabama (July 2017 – June 2019). It provides insights bridging “institutional borders” at multiple levels to spotlight “invisible voices” of rural librarians and glimpses best practices in community engagement that might be relevant to other rural areas historically facing similarly challenging socio-cultural/socio-economic circumstances
Calming "Internet Arguments" with Design
No full text"Internet arguments" are refer to users exchanging heated comments online. However, argumentation can also be beneficial for exchanging ideas on a topic with conflicting information. This is the situation with what Horst Rittel refers to as “wicked problem,” whereby solutions to problems are complex due toconflicting information. To assist discourse surrounding wicked problems, scholars created Computer Supported Argument Visualizations (CSAV). This exploratory pilot gathered user insight on when people prefer argumentation tools by asking participants to debate the complexities of Climate Change online. The results in this pilot study suggests that CSAVs for more formal argumentation might assist science journalism students with developing more informed opinions on the subject of Climate Change
“If you try to close them I will stab you in the eye with a fork”: interpretative repertoires in public library value statements
No full textIn July 2018, an online post advocating the replacement of libraries with Amazon outlets produced an outpouring of responses that articulated and debated the value of the public library. These value statements represent multiple, intertwined, and sometimes contradictory perspectives expressed in interpretative repertoires. These repertoires cluster around statements of value to the individual and value to society at large and include an association between libraries and the physical print book
A Pilot Study Examining the Information Seeking of Fiction Writers
No full textThis paper explores the information-seeking behaviours of fiction writers through a pilot study using an online survey. The information-seeking behaviour of fiction writers has been understudied, with the focus in Library and Information Science research falling predominantly on readership and publishing. This study represents an early step in exploring creativity and serendipity’s role in the information-seeking habits of storytellers
Classifying Music within the Basic Concepts Classification
No full textThis paper explores how we can better classify music – documents about music, as well as musical scores and recordings – within the Basic Concepts Classification (BCC). We hope first to take advantage of the synthetic nature of the BCC to capture dimensions that are usually ignored in music classification, and to be (more) exhaustive in our treatment of options along all dimensions. Yet we also intend to flesh out the schedules for genre and medium in order to achieve broad coverage. We thus hope to better classify music than is possible within any existing classification
The impact of CPD workshops on library professional practice
No full textThis paper focuses on the impact that the flow and exchange ideas during Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Workshops has on the professional practice of librarians. Participants in four CPD workshops were invited to participate in surveys at three and six month intervals after attending CPD workshops. Most participants implemented the ideas gained from the workshop in ways that benefited personal practice, library services, and the organisation, transferring the knowledge and skills from the workshops into their professional practice