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Best Practices for Library Exhibitions
(Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), 2021-11)Best Practices for Library Exhibitions provides a comprehensive framework and recommended practices for developing and managing exhibitions in art libraries and similar types of information environments. It offers real-world ... -
Bibliometrics & The Modern Academic Library: A Unique Cross-Campus Partnership At The University Of Waterloo
(2016-01-28)As one measure used to capture research productivity trends, and elements of research impact, the University of Waterloo recognizes bibliometric measures as an important piece of evidence-based research assessment. Join ... -
Bibliometrics and Research Impact at University of Waterloo: An Exciting Campus Partnership
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-03)In 2012, the Bibliometrics Working Group at the University of Waterloo, composed of the Library, the Office of Research, Institutional Analysis and Planning (IAP) and faculty representatives, began its work. In 2015, a new ... -
Charting the course: Developing a roadmap of research priorities in the Canadian RDM landscape
(2019)Launched in 2015, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Portage Network is dedicated to the shared stewardship of research data in Canada through developing a national research data culture, fostering a ... -
Collaborating to Automate Big Data Cleaning: An Example Using Local Bibliometric Data
(2016-12-06)This session will showcase a unique local collaboration between the Library, the Office of Research, and Institutional Analysis and Planning to support a project involving large amounts of complex data. The highly collaborative ... -
Collaborative archival practice: Rethinking outreach, access, and reconciliation using Wikipedia
(2017-04-28)Based on first-hand experience and concrete examples, the presentation outlines the use of Wikipedia as a tool for community engagement and as a way of improving the discoverability of archival content through collaboration. ... -
Demystifying Open Access
(2010-06-01)The international Open Access (OA) movement is changing how journal literature is created, disseminated, and purchased. Individuals working in academic, public and special libraries are invited to this session for a ... -
Doing the work: Editing Wikipedia as an act of reconciliation
(On Archivy, 2018-08-28)The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action outline the responsibilities of cultural heritage workers to educate both themselves and the general public about the Canadian Indian Residential School ... -
Evolution of a summer research/writing workshop for first‐year university students
(Emerald, 2008)Purpose: To describe a framework for a summer research/writing workshop for new university students, and its evolution over time and across institutions. Design/Methodology/Approach: The University of Toronto at Scarborough ... -
The Evolving Role of Liaison Librarians: Supporting Researchers in the Systematic Review Process
(2014-06-16)From the summer of 2013 to early 2014, four University of Waterloo librarians surveyed Health Sciences faculty and PhD students to gather data on their current and future systematic review work. Data provided insight into ... -
Exploring the role of teams and technology in patients' medication decision making
(Elsevier, 2019-03)We know little about how electronic health records (EHRs) should be designed to help patients, pharmacists, and physicians participate in interprofessional shared decision making. We used a qualitative approach to understand ... -
Fighting Impostor Syndrome: How Librarians Are Bridging the Gap Between the Humanities and the Sciences
(2017-02-01)While many librarians possess undergraduate degrees in the humanities, increasingly, there are excellent job prospects emerging in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. New graduates and librarians who ... -
From Coast to Coast: Canadian Collaboration in a Changing RDM Seascape
(2016-06-06)There is power in collaboration. With academic institutions across Canada preparing for possible changes in funding requirements around sharing and preserving data and the submission of data management plans, librarians ... -
From the ground up: Building a roadmap of research priorities for a national research data management community
(2019-05)Launched in 2015, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Portage Network is dedicated to the shared stewardship of research data in Canada through fostering national communities of practice for research data, ... -
How Two Librarians Became Co-instructors For a First Year Course
(2015-01-30)In Spring 2014, two librarians co-instructed an undergraduate Pharmacy course at the University of Waterloo. Providing students with the skills to access medical/drug information, this course gave students the skills to ... -
Impact, Attention, Influence? Potential Use Of Altmetrics In Academic Libraries
(2016-01-28)As the NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Initiative develops standards surrounding altmetrics, it is necessary to consider the relevance of altmetrics to the research community, including academic libraries. ... -
Inevitably Wikipedia
(2019-10-24)Broad overview of editing Wikipedia through an archival lens, including contributing to the Wikimedia Commons. -
Integrating Equity and Reconciliation Work into Archival Descriptive Practice at the University of Waterloo
(Archivaria, 2021-06)Despite sustained calls for a critical review of harmful content within archival descriptive records, there remains much to be explored by way of implications for Canadian academic archives. This article addresses the ... -
Investigating BIBFRAME: New Bibliographic Framework Initiative
(2016-01-28)This item represents one section, as presented by Alison Hitchens, of the following presentation: Hitchens, A., Rudnik, A., Carr, C. (2016, January 28). Investigating BIBFRAME. Session presented at OLA Superconference, ... -
Library Impact Practice Brief: Supporting Bibliometric Data Needs at Academic Institutions.
(Association of Research Libraries, 2020-10-28)This practice brief presents research conducted by staff at the University of Waterloo Library as part of the library’s participation in ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative. The research addressed the question, ...