These publications, written by Western Libraries’ librarians and researchers, examine information storage, sharing and retrieval along with the academic librarians’ roles in relation to stakeholders and institutions. Topics include digitization, library management, open access, and researcher needs.

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Submissions from 2023

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Leading From Between: Finding Meaning as a Third-Space Librarian, Heather Campbell

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The feminist first-year seminar: using critical pedagogy to design a mandatory information literacy course, Heather Campbell

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Library curriculum as epistemic justice: Decolonizing library instruction programs, Heather Campbell and Dan Sich

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A Short History of OER, Emily Carlisle-Johnston

Submissions from 2022

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Information Seeking Behaviors, Attitudes, and Choices of Academic Physicists, Ian D. Gordon, Debbie Chaves, Dylanne Dearborn, Shawn Hendrikx, Rebecca Hutchinson, Christopher Popovich, and Michael White

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Complex and Varied: Factors Related to the Research Productivity of Academic Librarians in the United States, Kristin Hoffmann, Selinda Adelle Berg, Kristine R. Brancolini, and Marie R. Kennedy

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What’s Hiding in the Spine? A Study of Adhesives in Medieval Books Using Mass Spectrometry, Alice Hutton Sharp, Sarah Fiddyment, Anne Lama, Jessica Lockhart, Deborah Meert-Williston, Melissa Moreton, Lauren Williams, and Alexandra Gillespie

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Free and Open-Source Automated Open Access Preprint Harvesting, Peplinski, Joanne Paterson, Courtney L. Waugh, and Joshua M. Pearce

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The Ghosts of Bindings Past: Micro-Computed X-Ray Tomography for the Study of Bookbinding, J. D. Sargan, Jessica L. Lockhart, Andrew Nelson, D. L. Meert-Williston, and Alexandra Gillespie

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Understanding the Enumerated World: Making Sense of Data as an Information Source, Kristi Thompson, Elizabeth Hill, and Alexandra Cooper

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Digital Bookplates: Cataloging Processes and Workflows, Alie Visser

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Digitizing and cataloging a corporate annual reports collection: a Canadian perspective, Alie Visser, Elizabeth Marshall, and Joyce Cheung

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Research & Scholarly Communication 2021-22 Report on Publishing Services, Courtney Waugh, Kristin Hoffmann, Emily Carlisle-Johnston, Kristi Thompson, and Liz Hill

Submissions from 2021

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“Just Like When I Was a Liaison”: Applying a Liaison Approach to Functional Library Models, Kristin Hoffmann and Emily Carlisle-Johnston

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Keep@Downsview: an evolving shared print project, Heather McMullen, Liz Hayden, Harriet Rykse, Caitlin Tillman, Louise White, and Wade Wyckoff

Submissions from 2020

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Unbundling practice: the unbundling of big deal journal packages as an information practice, Samuel Cassady, Catherine Anne Johnson, and Asen O. Ivanov

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Survey Research: Useful, Valuable Findings Require Hard Work, Kristin Hoffmann and Selinda Berg

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Data Rescue & Curation Best Practices Guide, OCUL Data Community (ODC) Data Rescue Group

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Keep@Downsview: An Evolving Shared Print Project, Harriet Rykse

Submissions from 2019

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Using GIS and Mapping Tools to Access and Visualize Archival Records: Case Studies and Survey Results of North American Archivists and Historians, Tom Belton

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Conceptions of Research Among Academic Librarians and Archivists, Lise Doucette and Kristin Hoffmann

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Matching Made in Heaven: Collections and Metadata Collaboration for Print Preservation, Alie Visser, Erin Johnson, and Christina Zoricic

Submissions from 2018

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Collaboratively Creating a Programmatic Information Literacy Strategy: Challenges and Opportunities, Tom Adam, Colleen A. Burgess MA MLIS, Kim McPhee, Leanne Olson, and Christy Sich

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Identifying research support needs of members of the canadian health libraries association / association des bibliothèques de la santé du canada, Sandy Campbell, Kelly Hatch, and Nazi Torabi

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Information Literacy Instruction in Canadian Undergraduate Science Education 2000–2015:/L'apprentissage des compétences informationnelles dans l'enseignement des sciences au premier cycle au Canada 2000–2015: A Literature Review/revue de la littérature, Linda Dunn and Shiyi Xie