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Anyone Can Do It: How Devaluing Labor Harms All of Us
Reflecting on the chapter, Access Services: Not Waving, but Drowning, …

“I meet others with the life I’ve lived, not just with my questions.” - Krista Tippett. While working amidst a global pandemic, …

How do students with diverse gender identities experience and perceive the academic library? What can we learn from our students to …

In March and April of 2021, I (and 2 co-investigators) interviewed academic librarians across Canada about their workload and working …

We believe that libraries are uniquely positioned to be a space where wellness programming can flourish! At the Brock Library we have …

For several years we have had conversations about student well-being and student mental health. Wellness initiatives are also becoming …

Compassion – meaning suffering-with – is a universal human quality that has been discussed widely in world religions and philosophies …

By offering unparalleled access to swaths of personalized information, social media platforms (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube) …

Discover the power of reading! Learn how talking about books provided stress relief, strengthened community and contributed to …

Underneath a polished and public two page strategic planning document you can find personal stories, emotional responses, systemic …

Mental Health Week has been recognized across Canada since 1951, yet mental health issues continue to be stigmatized. While there has …

How can we disrupt the singular white man’s joy that shapes our collections? In this keynote, we’ll discuss Indigenous …

Movements for disability justice have stressed that quality of life is inseparable from the larger human need for reliable and …

As a liaison librarian and a yoga instructor, my goal has been to humanize the academic library and offer services that support the …

Research has shown correlations between self-reflection, insight, and positive wellbeing. Academic librarians can use reflective …

Wellness is a fraught concept from the perspective of disability. Disability in our society is associated with pain, illness, …

By no means are creative intervention centers a replacement for professional mental health care. They are, however, an extension of …

College can be a stressful experience for students due to high costs of education, food insecurity, time management, and individual …

In 2021, the CAPAL Research and Scholarship Committee launched a mentorship program to bring together early career researchers with …

Pre-pandemic, Concordia University Library was among the most visited academic libraries in Quebec, with a strong tradition of …

As we enter our third year of the pandemic, many organizations, including academic libraries, are recognizing the continuous and …

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges and has had a significant effect on students’ learning. Many students have expressed …

This presentation explores the idea of centering learners’ bodies and minds in academic library instruction. From Kuhlthau’s iconic …

Meilleure présentation par affiche doctorale | Best poster for PhD Student
As the number of empirical studies on persuasive technology …

Meilleure présentation par affiche doctorale | Best poster for PhD Student
L’affiche a pour but de présenter le devis méthodologique …

Cette présentation examine au travers d’une revue de littérature non exhaustive les compétences de gestion nécessaires aux …

Cette étude s’intéresse aux actions culturelles et éducatives réalisées par les services d’archives départementales lors de …

Meilleure présentation orale doctorale | Best oral presentation for PhD student
I discuss the challenges with transdisciplinary …

En 2014, Pierre Rosanvallon lance le projet « Raconter la vie », pour donner à entendre les vies ordinaires, celles des invisibles, et …

Dans la recherche scientifique, on constate un manque d’étude sur l’accessibilité des services d’archives porté vers les personnes en …

The study investigates the state of the Open Government Data initiative in Nigeria by evaluating Nigeria’s Open Government Data …

Meilleure présentation par affiche pour maîtrise | Best poster for Master’s Student
Mon travail porte sur l’accessibilité des …

Meilleure présentation orale pour maîtrise | Best oral presentation for Master’s student
How can archives and archival approaches …

Ce mémoire de recherche porte sur la valorisation des archives de l’immigration en France aujourd’hui. L’immigration, perçue comme une …

All institutions in general and information institutions in particular, seek to improve the quality of information performance. Those …

While the prevalence of ocularcentrism – the prioritization of sight above the other senses – has been addressed by scholars regarding …

Libraries have had to temporarily shut their doors because of the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the provision of online and remote …

In 2019, Dylan Robinson and Candice Hopkins began touring their exhibition Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, which asks “How can …

My presentation is a short introduction to chapbooks. McGill’s library has a large, digitized collection of chapbooks, and I hope to …

The increase in use of the digital medium for publishing information has made information creation easier and cheaper resulting in …

Le sujet de notre projet de recherche est l’indexation automatique et le repérage des images numériques. Actuellement, nous avons une …

Keeping up to date is fundamental to research. Nonetheless, researchers face various challenges related to information overload, time …

Bien que son importance soit déjà évidente, la pandémie de COVID-19 a remis de l’avant l’urgence d’accélérer la publication en …

Les développements spectaculaires engendrés par le numérique amènent de nos jours les institutions publiques à faire preuve d’une …

La communication que je vous propose porte sur le sujet de recherche sur lequel je travaille dans le cadre de ma première année de …

Despite continued improvements to HIV/AIDS treatment and awareness, HIV transmission rates remain high among men who have sex with men …

This research deals with the concept of performance measurement, evaluation, standards and its application in university libraries for …

In this current era of “fake news” accusations and pandemic misinformation, the public is left to dispel misinformation via their own …

Notre présentation par affiche vise à faire connaître le devis méthodologique de notre projet doctoral et ses principales …

Notre thèse de doctorat s’est attaquée à la culture de l’information (information literacy), un sujet tellement discuté mondialement …

This talk touches on a current research project that explores the amount of APCs paid by Tri-Agency grant holders when publishing OA. …

This presentation examines fact checking, a well-known practice often associated with journalism, and its relationship to false …

Avant même que la France ne soit entièrement libérée, le gouvernement provisoire crée en octobre 1944 la Commission d’histoire de …

Information literacy has never been more important for the functioning of the democratic process, and for autonomy over one’s …

Information behaviour research has the potential to improve the design of information systems, the implementation of social …

La question de l’accès aux ressources savantes a traditionnellement été associée aux coûts d’abonnement aux périodiques scientifiques. …

La communication que je vous propose porte sur le sujet de recherche que je développe dans le cadre de ma première année de master …

My proposal is a research paper about the assistive technology in the library services of Lebanese universities for people with visual …

My research aims to examine systemic racism in public libraries and its impacts on racialized youth in Canada. It is grounded in an …

Indexing exists in the world far beyond the library profession’s structures and practices. The role of “aboutness” at the center of …

This will be a brief overview of the theoretical framework of one of my dissertation chapters. Even in the information age, …

I plan to provide my preliminary thoughts from my Qualifying Exams reading list, where I’m reading about Teen K-Pop Fandoms and …

Multidisciplinary research has the potential to unlock diverse perspectives in examination of complex questions. However, bridging the …

This presentation will focus on ‘dark patterns’: user interface design techniques that manipulate users into making choices …

Much has been written about the ethics of conducting research with minors, due in part to the novelty of ethical issues that emerge …

Monolingualism is often considered the “default” status in North America, and so too in LIS information-seeking …

Taking a memetic appraoch to Knowledge Organization (KO) may open interesting oppurtunities for exploration in library catalogues.

La Recommandation de l’UNESCO sur une science ouverte a été adoptée par les 193 états membres au cours de la 41e session de la …