When Jesuits returned to Canada in the 1840s, searching for and consolidating records that had been left behind in the aftermath of the suppression of their order in 1773 was a top priority. In addition to this work, Félix Martin, S.J.—the first archivist of the Jesuits in Canada—and subsequent archivists set out to copy records about New France held in Europe. Through this process, the Jesuits sought to build a coherent narrative of their order in Canada, and a sense of continuity with their...

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...

Sex – and media that depicts sex and sexually suggestive subject matter – remains stigmatised in western society. As pornography and sexually explicit material more broadly have become of increasing interest to researchers across several disciplines such as pornography studies and gender and sexuality studies, so too does the demand on institutions and practitioners in libraries, archives, and special collections to provide access to these materials. However, the taboo associated with the sub...

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...

Les migrations dans le monde constituent l'un des grands défis du 21e siècle, et dans plusieurs pays, les bibliothèques publiques sont devenues des lieux d’accueil et d’hospitalité pour les populations migrantes. Grâce à leurs missions sociales, les bibliothèques sont susceptibles d’agir à la manière d’un filet social, d’un tiers lieu et d’un espace démocratique pour ces populations. Une première revue de littérature, menée à terme à l'hiver 2023, a permis de relever quels sont les besoins in...