Be my Guest! From Welcome to Hospitality in Libraries.

Although inclusion and welcoming have been at the heart of French librarians' concerns for many years, the actions undertaken seem to have reached their limits. The participation of participants remains the business of informed people, the inclusion...

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Leadership Perspectives on Emotional Labour in Large Urban Public Libraries

The demands of public library work have intensified, placing strain on both frontline staff and the leaders responsible for supporting them. Emotional labour—the regulation of emotions required in daily work—remains underexplored in library and infor...

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The Emergence of the Placial-Technical: Digital Placemaking as Information Practice

In an era of ubiquitous computing and generative AI, our experience of place is increasingly mediated by digital technologies, creating hybrid environments where physical and virtual interactions converge. While fields like media and urban studies ha...

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Factors Associated with Young Adults Career Information Seeking Behavior and Sources of Information

Although research shows that information sources play an important role in career choice, few studies investigate career information seeking behavior of young adults with a multivariate approach of factors associated with the choice of information so...

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An Analysis of Open Science Action Plans by Canadian Federal Science Departments and Agencies

Following the release of the Roadmap for Open Science in 2020, Canadian federal departments and agencies that produce or fund scientific research were tasked with developing open science action plans. This study investigates the content and planned i...

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Twitter as an Information Dissemination Source for Delivering Crisis Information during the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic

This study aims to investigate the use of Twitter by Saudi government agencies as an information dissemination source to communicate COVID-19-related information. A total of 8,718 tweets from 33 government agencies were collected during a nine-month...

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Everyday Inclusion with Racialized Youth in Public Libraries

This qualitative study explores the lived experiences of racialized and immigrant youth in public libraries, focusing on a sense of belonging. The research team conducted 18 observations, two focus groups, surveys (n=79), and interviews (n=17). Findi...

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Readiness and Use of Big Data Analytics in Selected Canadian Higher Education Institutions

The rapid evolution of information technologies has driven the exponential growth of big data, creating opportunities to leverage data analytics across sectors. In higher education, Big Data Analytics (BDA) holds promise for improving decision-making...

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The First Nations, Métis, Inuit Indigenous Ontology and Challenges in the Development of an Indigenous Community Vocabulary in the Canadian Context

Creating and implementing Indigenous-led thesauri and vocabularies for wide adoption by cultural memory institutions is essential to providing respectful terminology to describe materials by and about Indigenous peoples in the territory referred to a...

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Critical review: Mesguich, Véronique (2024). Marketing en bibliothèque et autres milieux documentaires. Éditions ASTED. ISBN 978-2-923563-57-2

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