Jordan Pedersen (she/her) has wide ranging work experience, including various roles in libraries. She has been a summer reading program assistant, public library page, and academic librarian. Jordan currently works as a Research and Scholarship Librarian at the University of Guelph.
Sessions in which Jordan Pedersen participates
Tuesday 16 April, 2024
For 3 months in 2023 I collected job postings on the partnership job board, and have been analyzing them to determine what salaries people who work in Canadian libraries are being offered, and what that means for their material quality of life.The main research questions I have set out to answer are: 1. Based on salary information available for new job postings in libraries, what is the material quality of life that someone working in a library can expect to have? 2. ...
Sessions in which Jordan Pedersen attends
Tuesday 16 April, 2024
In the Canadian context, there is a notable dearth of professional literature focusing on racial minority librarians conducted by racial minority librarians. To address this gap, a team of six librarians, representing the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada (ViMLoC) network, undertook a second comprehensive survey in 2021, building on the initial survey conducted in 2013. The 2021 survey, which included data from 162 minority librarians, served as the foundation for three peer-reviewe...
Following the introduction of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL, 2016) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, efforts to meaningfully promote and enact the more conceptually oriented form of post-secondary information literacy instruction (ILI) evinced by the document have spread. However, perceptions of the Framework as elitist or inaccessible; the persistence of one-shot sessions as the dominant ILI format; and the difficulty of teaching and learning...
This presentation will explore a collection, or rather an absence of collection, of moving image works in a Canadian academic institution. Between March 2020 and March 2022, faculty at Concordia University requested over 2,000 films in streaming format to be purchased or licensed by the university library for course and research use. Approximately one third of these requests were unable to be fulfilled due to licensing and rights limitations. Funded by the Concordia University Library Researc...
As of April 2022, the National Library of Medicine has converted to automatic indexing for MEDLINE citations thanks to the integration of The Medical Text Indexer (MTI). MTI has been incredibly impactful, with a notable decrease in the time it takes a MEDLINE citation to receive MeSH indexing. However, further work is needed to address some well-documented issues around the indexing genes and chemical compounds and their impact on information retrieval. To investigate these issues, this resea...