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.
Submissions from 2024
Faculty Response to Journal Cancellations, Catherine A. Johnson and Samuel Cassady
Submissions from 2023
Leading From Between: Finding Meaning as a Third-Space Librarian, Heather Campbell
The feminist first-year seminar: using critical pedagogy to design a mandatory information literacy course, Heather Campbell
Library curriculum as epistemic justice: Decolonizing library instruction programs, Heather Campbell and Dan Sich
A Short History of OER, Emily Carlisle-Johnston
Research Data Management in the Canadian Context: A Guide for Practitioners and Learners, Kristi Thompson, Elizabeth T. Hill, Emily Carlisle-Johnston, Danielle Dennie, and Émilie Fortin
Submissions from 2022
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
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
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
Free and Open-Source Automated Open Access Preprint Harvesting, Jack Peplinski, Joanne Paterson, Courtney L. Waugh, and Joshua M. Pearce
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
Understanding the Enumerated World: Making Sense of Data as an Information Source, Kristi Thompson, Elizabeth Hill, and Alexandra Cooper
Digital Bookplates: Cataloging Processes and Workflows, Alie Visser
Digitizing and cataloging a corporate annual reports collection: a Canadian perspective, Alie Visser, Elizabeth Marshall, and Joyce Cheung
Research & Scholarly Communication 2021-22 Report on Publishing Services, Courtney Waugh, Kristin Hoffmann, Emily Carlisle-Johnston, Kristi Thompson, and Liz Hill
Submissions from 2021
“Just Like When I Was a Liaison”: Applying a Liaison Approach to Functional Library Models, Kristin Hoffmann and Emily Carlisle-Johnston
Iliopsoas Release – A Systematic Review of Clinical Efficacy and Associated Complications, Robert Longstaffe, Shawn Hendrikx, Douglas Naudie, Kevin Willits, and Ryan . M. Degen
Keep@Downsview: an evolving shared print project, Heather McMullen, Liz Hayden, Harriet Rykse, Caitlin Tillman, Louise White, and Wade Wyckoff
Submissions from 2020
Unbundling practice: the unbundling of big deal journal packages as an information practice, Samuel Cassady, Catherine Anne Johnson, and Asen O. Ivanov
Survey Research: Useful, Valuable Findings Require Hard Work, Kristin Hoffmann and Selinda Berg
Data Rescue & Curation Best Practices Guide, OCUL Data Community (ODC) Data Rescue Group
Keep@Downsview: An Evolving Shared Print Project, Harriet Rykse
Submissions from 2019
Conceptions of Research Among Academic Librarians and Archivists, Lise Doucette and Kristin Hoffmann