... libraries University libraries Digital libraries Digital archives 3D archives 3D models 3D technology Hackerspace 3D model Canada The project to implement 3D printing and scanning technology as a service of the Dalhousie University Libraries began in January of 2012. The idea...

... of America Canada To a large extent, disability is a social construct. To look at disability as a condition residing within certain individuals, as a malfunction or medical problem of sorts, does not do justice to the matter; nor does it do those affected by it any good. If we conceptualize...

... SERP rankings. Public libraries Academic libraries Content findability Search engine optimization Social media optimization Information seeking Information retrieval Canada SEO practitioners could be regarded as elements within the IS&R system, but they are elements whose...

...Melissa A. Hofmann; Sharon Q. Yang Purpose This paper aims to determine the current usage of next generation online public access catalogs (OPACs) and discovery tools in academic libraries in the USA and Canada. Design/methodology/approach Using the same random sample of 260 colleges...

... perspective influenced the authors to conduct their own test using students with print disabilities. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Academic libraries Databases Disabilities Blind people Dyslexia Canada The twenty‐first century higher education institution reflects...

.../methodology/approach The web sites of the 20 largest Canadian libraries were surveyed to assess the extent to which specific language‐related technologies are offered in Canada, including conversational agents. An exemplified taxonomy of four pragmatic purposes that conversational agents currently serve...

...Catherine A. Maskell Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on research that examined the potential affects of academic library consortia activity on the scholarly publishing cycle. Design/methodology/approach Semi‐structured interviews of 30 university librarians from across Canada...

...Christine Jewell; William Oldfield; Sharon Reeves Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss issues associated with open access (OA) to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) and to describe the University of Waterloo E‐thesis Project and its partnerships with Theses Canada...

...Mary Westell Purpose This paper proposes indicators for measuring the success of institutional repositories based on their demonstrated integration with other research initiatives and provides a snapshot of the current state of selected institutional repositories in Canada through a review...

...Kathleen Shearer Purpose To report the results of the 2005 CARL survey of institutional repositories (IRs) and discuss some of the challenges of implementing IRs in Canada. Design/methodology/approach This takes the form of a survey questionnaire. Findings There are a number of important...

... 2006 Canada Research libraries Data handling Digital libraries The Canadian Association of Research Libraries/Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada's Institutional Repository Metadata Harvester [1] collects metadata from nine repositories hosted at Canadian...

...; indexing is performed by the LIUS framework, etc. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Document management Generation and dissemination of information Search engines Java Archiving Canada An institutional repository is a digital archive. It is used to amalgamate and diffuse...

... to explain to users, especially when the request would almost certainly go through if made more slowly, article by article, over several days or weeks, simply because, in a large volume operation, no one would notice. Copyright law Interlending Canada Germany United States of America...

... separately. If content providers could accommodate this standard, it would go a long way in meeting the needs of those using assistive devices to access the Web. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Worldwide web Computer software Canada With the advent of the US legislation referred to as Section...

... of IT, and outlines the benefits of cultivating librarians with IT knowledge, rather than relying on non‐librarians to perform technical work in the library. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Education Library and information networks Library management Information systems Automation Canada The systems...

...Doug Hodges; Carrol D. Lunau The National Library of Canada (NLC) is involved in a range of digital library (DL) initiatives which contribute to the fulfillment of its mandate and support the growing range of DL services that complement the Library’s more traditional collections and services...

...Marilyn Berger This article describes the process whereby digitization of a journal is used to preserve and provide access to the contents on the World Wide Web. The journal chosen, The Canadian Architect and Builder, was the only professional architectural journal published in Canada...

..., UNIMARC and other features such as sophisticated closed stacks management. Best‐Seller customers are public, special and academic libraries in the USA, Canada, France and the West Indies. Today, Best‐Seller is a completely different entity. We have added clients throughout Canada, the USA, France...

..., other projects span a number of years and have a number of phases. The various digital collections and some of the challenges faced by the early digital project initiatives are described in this article. © Company 1999 Canada Collection management Computer networks Electronic publishing...

... University Libraries), and BCNet (post‐secondary libraries in British Columbia) are the most important. Location identification and requesting has been facilitated by a variety of union catalogues: BC Union Catalogue (1980s), ELN serials, ISM (now A‐G Canada Ltd), OCLC, COPPUL serials. Special arrangements...