Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI
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Information sharing as embodied practice
No full textThis paper works toward extending two areas in information scholarship: religious practice andembodiment. Reporting on completed ethnographic research about information practices amongMuslim converts in the Greater Toronto Area, this paper reveals how information is sharedthrough non-written sources in the context of religious transitions that take place within acontentious political landscape. **Student-to-CAIS Paper *
Information, Beliefs, and Ways of Knowing in the Post-Truth Era
No full textIn 2016, Oxford Dictionaries claimed “post-truth” as word of the year. Post-truth is the supremacy of belief, emotion, and worldviews over information and facts. While post-truth is nothing new, it invites reconsideration of information, disinformation, misinformation, and knowledge from an understudied perspective: the internal conditions and different ways of knowing that shape and influence information interactions. This conceptual paper explores the relationships among beliefs, emotion, and faith, internal conditions, information, and different ways of knowing by drawing upon two recent events: the preventable death of a toddler and the fundamental belief system change of a white supremacist
Identifying as a Librarian: When and If LIS Graduates in Non - Library Roles Use the Title “Librarian”
No full textThis poster addresses how library andinformation science (LIS) graduates who work in non-library roles label themselves. The LIS community as the profession is undergoing a time of transition. Given the changing nature of the work that is being performed by LIS graduates both inside and outside of libraries, the timing is appropriate to explore how practitioners choose to label themselves as professionals. LIS graduates working in non-library roles where selected as the target population of this study because their work provides them with myriad possibilities for self-labelling. Participants exhibited four response patterns which are described and discussed
Quelles données satisferaient les utilisateurs de sites web de musées?
No full textBest Overall Paper / Prix du meilleur article toutes catégoriesCe projet propose d’examiner les éléments essentiels à la description des objets muséaux et modéliser ceux-ci à l’aide de données ouvertes liées. Dans cette phase, les attentes et les besoins d’un groupe de 60 utilisateurs relativement aux données descriptives associées aux objets muséaux de toutes natures sur les sites web de musées sont présentés.This project examines the fundamental elements for the description of museum objects and their modelization using linked open data. In this phase, the needs and expectations of 60 museum website users regarding the descriptive data associated with museum objects of any kind on museum websites are presented
Interpreting mediated quantitative data: Insights from information behaviour research
No full textUsing climate change as an example, this conceptual paper explores two issues: the difficulties people have in understanding, interpreting, and responding to quantitative data, and the ways in which, if any, information behaviour research might provide insight into this issue. Data related to climate change were selected because they are often mediated by others with divergent vested interests including media, politicians, NGOs, scientists, and government agencies and because people bring a host of cognitive and psychological biases, worldviews, and beliefs to their perceptions of data and information and consequently, climate change.En utilisant le changement climatique comme exemple, cet article conceptuel explore deux questions : les difficultés rencontrées par les personnes pour comprendre, interpréter et répondre aux données quantitatives, et la manière dont, le cas échéant, la recherche sur le comportement informationnel pourrait éclairer cette question. Les données relatives au changement climatique ont été choisies car elles sont souvent véhiculées par des groupes ayant des intérêts divergents, notamment les médias, les politiciens, les ONG, les scientifiques et les agences gouvernementales, et parce que les gens apportent une foule de préjugés cognitifs et psychologiques, de visions du monde et de croyances dans leur perception des données et des informations, et donc du changement climatique
Narratives of Fact and Fiction: Examining Studies of Information Experience and the Interpretation of Data.
No full textThis paper reports on an ongoing pilot study of creative engagement with fictional worlds in order to explore potential contributions of narrative methods and data to the investigation of information behaviour and experience in LIS. A narrative framework can be used to examine the individual, social, and material aspects of information experiences situated in time and space. Such a framework has the potential to contribute detailed understandings of the nature of the experience of information and fiction, and of information experience more generally, to the body of literature on information experience in LIS.Cet article rend compte d\u27une étude pilote en cours sur l\u27engagement créatif avec des mondes fictifs afin d\u27explorer les contributions potentielles des méthodes narratives et des données à l\u27investigation du comportement et de l\u27expérience informationnelles dans les sciences de l’information et la bibliothéconomie (SIB). Un cadre narratif peut être utilisé pour examiner les aspects individuels, sociaux et matériels des expériences informationnelles situées dans le temps et l\u27espace. Ce cadre peut contribuer à la compréhension détaillée de la nature de l\u27expérience informationnelle et de la fiction, et de l\u27expérience informationnelle en général, ainsi qu’à l\u27ensemble de la littérature sur l\u27expérience de l\u27information dans les SIB
Understanding Public Libraries’ Conversations: Promises and Challenges of Microblogging Data
No full textThis paper examines the concept of “conversation” on Twitter as expressed by both social media metrics and network analysis. This paper offers a methodology for studying library engagement on Twitter and reflexively critiques the method to probe different discursive styles and technical expressions of “engagement” by Canadian public libraries.Cet article examine le concept de « conversation » sur Twitter tel qu\u27il est exprimé par les métriques de médias sociaux et l\u27analyse de réseau. L’article propose une méthodologie pour étudier l\u27engagement des bibliothèques sur Twitter et critique par réflexe la méthode pour sonder différents styles discursifs et expressions techniques de « l\u27engagement » des bibliothèques publiques canadiennes
Linguistic Diversity and Libraries
No full textThe paper employs the concept of linguisticdiversity as a lens for viewing access to libraryservices. It first describes and analyzes linguisticdiversity in relation to library access generally,then quantifies linguistic diversity by assessing itsincidence in the staff who shape and deliveraccess and comparing it to general populations
Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration as a Community of Practice
No full textWe present an ongoing research project, which takes a qualitative approach using in-depth interview methodology to explore interdisciplinary scientific collaboration activities at a computation and technology research center. The purpose of this research is to understand how a team of scientists and engineers use physical artifacts and social practices to collaborate. We attempt to identify communities of practice that were involved in those scientific collaborations; specific social practices that both scientists and engineers developed and engaged in, as well as those shared artifacts that were used to facilitate interaction among inter- and intra-group members
A Leaf from Algonquin Park: Preliminary findings of a content analysis of information practice stereotypes in the documentary trail of a world-famous provincial park (1890-2018)
No full textThis longitudinal, retrospective study presents preliminary findings from an in-progress content analysis of the documentary paper trail associated with Algonquin Provincial Park. The project seeks to understand how local residents, visitors and Indigenous people of the Algonquin Park area are represented in published accounts of people who have come into contact with them, and how those representations reflect the actual information seeking behaviors of, and stereotypes associated with, these rural populations.Cette étude rétrospective longitudinale présente les résultats préliminaires d\u27une analyse de contenu en cours de la trace documentaire associée au parc provincial Algonquin. Le projet vise à comprendre comment les résidents locaux, les visiteurs et les Autochtones de la région du parc Algonquin sont représentés dans des comptes rendus publiés de personnes qui ont été en contact avec eux et comment ces représentations reflètent les comportements actuels de recherche d\u27information de ces populations rurales et les stéréotypes qui leur sont associés