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Joan C. Bartlett

Associate Professor
McGill School of Information Studies
Participates in 2 items

Sessions in which Joan C. Bartlett participates

Tuesday 16 April, 2024

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM | 30 minutes
Virtual Session

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...

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 30 minutes
Virtual Session

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...